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A 21-year-old is said to have stolen 735,000 euros from a bank.
He now admits the crime, but claims to have been a victim himself.
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A 21-year-old is said to have stolen 735,000 euros from a bank.
He now admits the crime, but claims to have been a victim himself.
Two others helped themselves to the safe.
Feldkirchen - At the start of the trial last week, the bank clerk who is said to have stolen almost three quarters of a million euros from his former employer in Feldkirchen did not want to comment.
Now the 21-year-old has admitted the crime - but portrayed himself as a victim.
Before the statement, the 54-year-old VR Bank branch manager was questioned at the Munich regional court.
At the time of the crime at the end of July the year before last, the then 19-year-old bank clerk's probationary period had just ended.
The witness praised him as “not conspicuous”, but “always nice and polite” and “well integrated”.
Although she stated that the day of the crime was “very present” to her, she was unable to answer many questions.
And that even though she knew what it was about, commented the presiding judge.
"You have to come.
The money is gone."
As always on Friday, the bank was closed to general customer traffic at twelve o'clock.
When an employee wanted to take the money from the counter room to the safe after the lunch break, she found a note at the cash register with the message: “I've already made the cash register”.
According to the four-eyes principle, this can only be done by two colleagues together, explained the branch manager.
The employee went to the vault and returned upset: “You have to come.
The money is gone.” When she wanted to confront the defendant in front of the vault in the basement, he turned around and went up the stairs: “He was gone,” the branch manager recalled.
The defendant took the key to the safe from a locker with a timer, which a colleague unlocked for him with her fingerprint.
She described the fact that there was so much cash in the bank as a “complexity of circumstances.”
Just on the day of the crime, a customer paid in 160,000 euros - unannounced.
In addition, the defendant had ordered 220,000 euros from the Bundesbank a week earlier - to be paid out to a customer, as he stated.
However, he couldn't remember the customer's name.
The 54-year-old explained that this struck her as more sloppy than suspicious: she believes “in the good in people.”
Actually planned to take hostages
Milan B. (name changed), an acquaintance, forced him to commit the crime, the defendant explained through his defense lawyers.
The contact intensified three years before the crime.
B. and his friends are in the rocker milieu and are “crass guys like in the movies”.
One of B.'s friends once drove up in a Lamborghini, and in another he saw countless weapons.
He also saw Milan B. hitting his own father, his girlfriend and his dog.
He rejected B.'s original idea of simulating a bank robbery and taking hostages.
He took part in the theft because he was afraid, wanted to fit in and be respected, the statement says.
He had hoped to receive part of the loot.
In fact, two men he didn't know, whom he let into the bank on B.'s instructions, packed the money in a bag and fled via the underground car park.
As adventurous as the story may sound: Apparently there is actually a direct connection between the vault and the underground car park.
And above all: The branch manager was sure that the defendant did not have a backpack or other container with him when he escaped from the vault with which he could have transported 735,500 euros.
The process will continue the week after next.
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