Overview
- Interior Minister Herbert Reul briefed a special Landtag session as BAO "Bohrer" grew to about 230 investigators drawn from regional forces and the LKA.
- The sealed vault remains a crime scene with several hundred thousand items to process, about 10,000 hours of video (≈8 TB) to review, and chemically contaminated evidence requiring months of work.
- Police say a non-openable escape door from the parking structure was manipulated and a 40-centimeter hole was drilled, with the thieves spending at least four hours in the vault and forcing nearly all of the 3,256 boxes.
- The value of the haul remains uncertain, with estimates shifting from the mid–two-digit millions to a possible three-digit million-euro loss, and no arrests publicly reported.
- Attorney Daniel Kuhlmann plans to file suit next week with mandates from roughly 150 victims and similar numbers interested, while Sparkasse cites per-box coverage up to €10,300 and defends its security as state of the art.