According to the police, around 270,000 euros in damage was caused when two ATMs were blown up in Bad Dürkheim on Thursday night. The perpetrators also made loot.
The Rhine-Palatinate police headquarters does not provide any information about how much the loot is. What is clear, however, is that the explosions caused enormous damage to the two buildings in which the ATMs of the VR Bank and the Sparkasse were located. A police spokesman puts this at 150,000 euros and 120,000 euros.
After ATMs are blown up, statics must be checked
According to the spokesman, a house now also needs a structural engineer who will check whether the building can still be used at all. Meanwhile, the unknown perpetrators are still on the run. According to the spokesman, there is no clear trace of them yet. The Ludwigshafen criminal police are investigating.
The two ATMs on Bruchstrasse in Bad Dürkheim were blown up on Thursday night between 2:57 a.m. and 2:59 a.m.
Already 23 ATM explosions in RLP this year
According to the State Criminal Police Office (LKA), ATM explosions continue to increase overall – there have already been 23 cases in Rhineland-Palatinate this year alone. 2022 was a record year with 56 explosions, and suspects were identified in around 25 percent of the cases.
The police and LKA recorded a sharp increase from 2017 onwards, when initially around five cases per year became between 20 and 35 cases per year. The perpetrators would act more and more brutally and use ever larger explosive devices.
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