Caution: bike thieves know exactly what a high-quality bike looks like.
And the police know the places where the thieves prefer to strike.
Dachau - It was the boldest and most damaging bicycle theft of the year: In the summer, two perpetrators stole eight high-quality bicycles with a total value of 6000 euros at the Dachau train station. One of the thieves should be tried last Tuesday because of this particularly serious case of theft, as it is legally called. Everyone was there: the magistrate Christian Calame, a representative of the public prosecutor's office, a defense attorney, an interpreter, since the accused is Romanian, and a witness. Alone: the defendant did not come. Nobody knew where he was now; The only thing that seemed certain was that he could no longer be found at the address to which the summons to the court hearing had been delivered to him.
It would have been an important sign to punish the thief with a severe punishment.
According to the police, bicycle theft is a long-running hit among thefts in the city and district of Dachau.
327 thefts were reported in 2020, as police spokesman Günther Findl explains when asked.
The trend is "towards more and more high-quality bicycles".
According to Findl, the local focus is on "parking spaces at train stations, in particular the bicycle parking garage at Dachau S-Bahn station".
In order to make it as difficult as possible for the bike thieves, the police recommend not only locking the bikes, but also connecting them.
In addition, when buying a bicycle lock, you shouldn't pay attention to the price: "It's better to use a high-quality lock," recommends Findl.
Expensive bikes in particular should also be registered with the police: in the event of damage, the stored data can be called up quickly.