At the request of the judicial authorities in Germany, a man was arrested south of Amsterdam on Monday who was alleged to be involved in robberies on cash transports in Germany.
According to the police and judicial authorities in Germany, the 52-year-old Dutchman took part in a robbery on a cash transporter at Cologne-Bonn airport on 6 March 2019. During that robbery, an employee of the transport company was shot in the upper leg several times. The masked perpetrators ran off with a suitcase with an unknown amount of money. The getaway car was found burnt.
The Dutchman is also said to have been complicit in a robbery on cash in transit at the Ikea branch in Frankfurt am Main, on November 9, 2019. As in Cologne, an employee of the transport company was seriously injured because the perpetrator or perpetrators shot him.
Germany has requested extradition. Pending a decision on this, the Dutchman is detained, writes the Cologne police. Details of the arrest have not been disclosed.
In the same case, 60-year-old German criminal Thomas Drach was arrested in Amsterdam in February. He too is in prison awaiting a decision on extradition.
Drach previously served a fifteen-year sentence for kidnapping German businessman Jan Philipp Reemtsma in 1996. After paying millions of euros in ransom, Reemtsma was released. Drach could be tracked down in Argentina two years later. That handed him over to Germany.
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