""What's now clear is that an emergency exit that it should not be possible to open from the car park was manipulated," police said. "With this unhindered access from the parking area to the Sparkasse building was enabled.""
""A series of questions are popping up there," the state of North Rhine-Westphalia's interior minister, Herbert Reul, told the regional parliament in Dusseldorf, such as whether the alarms were disactivated, or faulty, or otherwise bypassed."
"Reul said that whatever the details, it was clear the thieves were highly organized and professional, likening some of the scenes to "a movie.""
An emergency exit that should not be possible to open from the car park was manipulated, allowing unhindered access from the parking area to the Sparkasse building. Thieves bypassed or evaded multiple alarm systems, drilled a 40-centimeter hole into the vault and forced entry to almost all of the 3,256 safety deposit boxes. The theft occurred during the weekend after Christmas while the bank was barely open and went undetected for two days. Investigators are probing whether alarms were deactivated, faulty, or bypassed and whether there was inside assistance, though no firm grounds for suspicion exist yet.
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