Overview
- More than 3,000 safe‑deposit holders will be scheduled via 0209 365 1661 for weeks of statements, and police emphasize they will not call victims proactively.
- The BAO "Bohrer" task force has over 200 investigators, with forensics cataloging hundreds of thousands of items after chemical contamination in the vault.
- Preliminary findings indicate a manipulated escape door from a neighboring parking garage and an approximately 40‑centimeter hole provided access to the vault.
- Damage estimates have shifted from the mid double‑digit millions to potentially into the hundreds of millions, and no arrests have been announced.
- Victims are attending legal briefings on possible claims, and NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul has criticized the bank’s information-sharing, which the Sparkasse disputes.