€30M stolen in German bank vault heist

8 pointsposted a month ago
by DetectDefect

3 Comments

bell-cot

a month ago

Sounds like a copy of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatton_Garden_safe_deposit_bur...

One might imagine that a German bank's regulator, or insurance company, or something, would require that they have a working alarm system for their vault...

pseudohadamard

a month ago

The whole thing actually looks very amateurish, poured concrete and a concrete-block wall and then wooden racking for the valuables, not individual lockboxes? That approximately describes my basement.

It also looks like they used a tungsten-carbide core drill which means there can't have been any, or very effective, reinforcing steel in there.