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21:01, 15 January 2024
Pokemon cards worth 200,000 euros were stolen from a Belgian collector’s store.
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The robbery took place in the north of Belgium. According to the newspaper Le Figarothe crime was carefully planned and there were four assailants.
The owner of the collection, Ivs Bruinen, estimates the loss at more than 200,000 euros and offers a reward of 10,000 euros to whoever finds the thieves or the stolen items.
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“Will the robbers be able to sell them? Some things yes, but there are also exclusive items that are very rare, if at all, in Europe. If they try to sell them, they risk being caught,” he emphasizes.
The Pokemon craze, which began in the late 1990s, has seen a new surge in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic.
Pokemon games first took the world by storm in the late 1990s – endless crowds of fans and an obsession known as ‘Pokemonmania’. The original handheld games, Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue, were released in 1998 in the US, followed by Yellow and Silver in 2000. Along with the games, everything related to Pokemon became popular – cards, movies, shows and other goods. For a few years, Pokemon was on top of the world.
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Pokemon-related items have reached record highs at auction in recent years.
For example, one of the first cards issued in February 2021 was sold for 418,000 euros.
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