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Metal debris. Broken windows. Broken doors. It is images like those of the Wild West that have caused a stir in Switzerland in recent months. These are images that show a new and perfidious method of bank robbery: instead of running to the branch with a gun, the robbers blow up the machines.
In early October alone, it cracked four times in a week. In Utzenstorf BE, Vicosoprano GR, in Büren an der Aare BE and in Rothrist AG. The method has a system. According to “SRF”, criminal gangs have blown up machines 16 times in Switzerland this year, or at least have tried to do so. There were two more such crimes in 2017, four in 2018 and 22 in 2019.
They looted almost 127,000 francs
Most of the time there are gangs behind. Therefore, a suspect has been detained in Switzerland for months. The Romanian was extradited from Austria in the summer, as reported by “SRF” with reference to a sentence of the Federal Criminal Court. An alleged accomplice is detained in Denmark and an extradition request from the Swiss authorities is pending.
The two men are suspected of using explosives to blow up an ATM in Sevelen, in the canton of St. Gallen, in mid-December 2019. At that time, the perpetrators stole almost 127,000 francs.
Perpetrators betrayed with DNA
With reference to the verdict, “SRF” reports how investigators tracked down the duo: DNA from one of the two men was found on two goats’ legs found near the crime scene. The accomplice’s DNA was also found in another busted ATM in the canton of Zurich.
Overall, the authorities now appear to have created a profile of the perpetrators. “You operate in small groups of three to four perpetrators. Presumably they come from Eastern Europe and French banlieues “, Fedpol spokesman Florian Näf tells” SRF “. (Vof)
