Overview
- Surveillance clips from the garage show masked men paying at a ticket machine and lifting a barrier, with a white van and a black high‑performance car using stolen Hannover plates captured on camera.
- Police now estimate a mid–two‑digit million‑euro haul, exceeding the initial rough insurance figure of about €30 million, marking one of Germany’s largest bank thefts.
- Roughly 3,250 safe‑deposit boxes were almost entirely pried open, leaving more than 2,500 customers affected as the Buer branch remains closed due to structural damage.
- The bank directs clients to a hotline and online guidance; standard cover is €10,300 per box and higher claims require documented inventories or separate private insurance.
- Investigators say the crew drilled through from an archive room after entering via the garage; an early‑Monday fire alarm exposed the crime following an earlier Saturday alarm that found no damage, and no arrests have been announced.