High damage caused by arson in two bank branches in Bad Tölz - 56-year-old suspect

Created: 2022-12-13Updated: 2022-12-13, 4:16 p.m

By: Andreas Steppan

The fire brigade responded to two fires in Tölzer Marktstraße on Tuesday night.

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Fire was set in two bank branches on Tölzer Marktstrasse on Tuesday night.

The police arrested a suspect shortly afterwards.

Bad Tölz

– The Tölz fire brigade had to deal with two consecutive operations, both in Marktstraße, on Tuesday night.

As the fire brigade reports on their Facebook page, the fire alarm system in a commercial building was initially triggered at around 12:35 a.m.

"The reason for the alarm was smoke from a small fire," it says.

100,000 euros damage to ATMs and interior

The fire may have been small, but the damage it caused is immense.

According to the police, there was a fire in the anteroom of a bank branch.

The fire brigade quickly got the flames under control with the help of a small extinguisher, smoked out the anteroom with an electric fan and examined it for embers with the thermal imaging camera.

What remained of the fire was damage to two ATMs and the interior, which the police estimate at around 100,000 euros.

While the emergency services were still busy on site, the police drew their attention to another small fire in a neighboring commercial building.

That was around 1:15 a.m., police said.

"The interior of a bank was set on fire here," says the press report of the Presidium Oberbayern Süd.

The extent of the property damage caused here was not yet known on Tuesday afternoon.

The police assume that the damage is in the high five-digit euro range.

Two fire brigade operations in banks in Bad Tölz

The fire brigade writes that after "removing a burning object" they used electric fans and thermal imaging cameras again.

A total of eight emergency services were busy with the two fires for around one and a half hours.

The police immediately dispatched several patrol cars to search the area.

And she found it.

"Ultimately, a suspect 56-year-old Bad Tölzer could be arrested," said the police.

A witness saw him leave one of the two affected bank branches shortly before the fire.

According to the officials, the 56-year-old was “considerably drunk”.

After arson: public prosecutor's office applies for arrest

After the fire brigade had completed the extinguishing work, the permanent criminal service of the Weilheim Criminal Police Inspectorate took over the first police investigations on site.

The further investigations were carried out by the responsible department 1 of the Weilheim Criminal Police Inspectorate under the direction of the Munich II Public Prosecutor's Office.

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The public prosecutor filed a detention order against the 56-year-old suspect.

He is to be brought before the investigating judge on Wednesday morning, who will decide whether he may be held in custody.

Due to the circumstances, the police assume that the fire was deliberately set.

You can find more current news from the region around Bad Tölz at Merkur.de/Bad Tölz.