Overview

• In the early hours of May 29, unknown assailants used explosives to destroy an ATM housed in a residential building on Stuttgarter Straße in Knittlingen, Baden-Württemberg.
• The blast inflicted around €700,000 in structural damage to the building’s integrated Sparkasse branch, police report.
• Perpetrators made off with an undisclosed sum of cash before fleeing the scene in a getaway vehicle.
• Polizei and the Landeskriminalamt Baden-Württemberg have launched a joint investigation to identify and apprehend those responsible.
• This attack is the newest in a series of ATM explosions across Germany since late 2024, prompting calls for banks to install fogging systems and enhanced video surveillance to deter future robberies.