Overview
- Prosecutors say a highly explosive gas mixture was used to blow open an ATM at Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum in April 2024, yielding about €255,000 and causing roughly €30,000 in damage.
- The suspects allegedly traveled from the Netherlands for the operation before fleeing by motor scooter and then by inflatable boat on a canal.
- The defendant told the court the boat capsized near the Alte Schleuse in Charlottenburg and his accomplice drowned.
- He said a deceased acquaintance from the so-called “Sprenger-Szene” proposed the crime, promised him €25,000, and that he took part due to financial hardship.
- The 38-year-old was arrested in Spain in May 2025, extradited to Berlin, and had previously been sentenced in 2018 in Cologne for multiple ATM explosions.