Overview

• Maria P., 23, was convicted of theft, fabricating a crime and misuse of emergency calls and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
• Judges found she enabled an unidentified accomplice to enter the Obermenzing cooperative bank’s vault in October 2024 and remove the cash.
• Police mounted a large response with more than 80 officers after her false alarm and briefly detained two uninvolved men matching her description.
• The court ordered forfeiture of roughly €391,000 from the proceeds, while about €65,000 was recovered from her then-partner’s apartment, including money hidden in a mattress.
• A 20-year-old co-defendant was sentenced under juvenile law to a short detention term with reports differing on its length, and the judgments are not yet final.