Police say the EPT Berlin robbers were “stupid amateurs.”
The winners at EPT Berlin have been crowned and millions of euros’ worth of prize money has been handed out, even though a fair chunk of that money was stolen by armed bandits last Saturday. Police in Berlin are still searching for the perpetrators of the crime and have no suspects in custody as of this time, but they appear confident that they’ll get their men.
Police say they believe the armed gang had an inside man working at the EPT Berlin, because the heist was timed to take the money and run at exactly the moment that it was being prepared for transport to the hotel’s main safe. That means they’re now looking for a fifth suspect in addition to the four masked men who carried out the robbery.
After a whirlwind of initial reports that had the robbers armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and grenades, police now say the bandits actually had handguns and machetes. Their total take was €242,000, the equivalent of about $339,000 US.
Investigators are sure that this bunch of robbers was an amateur crew due to the methods used in carrying out the plan. “The way they were armed and behaved, as well as the mountain of evidence they left behind, already indicates that the police will quickly identify them,” German police union chief Rainer Wendt told Agence France-Presse today, adding that the thieves dipped to “new depths of stupidity to carry out such a raid in front of running surveillance cameras.”
Though this crew was amateur, German police are worried about what the attack might mean for future poker robberies. “When such semi-professionals land a coup like this, then the desire for a piece of the pie grows among the real big guys in the underworld,” a police spokesman told the Berliner Zeitung.
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Police Still Searching For EPT Berlin Poker Bandits
