Overview
- Police now deploy 350 investigators working around the clock after the late‑December break‑in at Sparkasse Gelsenkirchen.
- Investigators have documented about 30,000 items and conducted roughly 270 interviews, with some 500,000 remaining items to examine for traces.
- A ZDF “Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst” appeal produced a mid‑double‑digit number of tips after airing images of three masked suspects and two getaway vehicles with stolen plates.
- Interior Minister Herbert Reul visited the site and reviewed the suspected route through the building, the vault, and central evidence‑processing areas.
- No verified links have been found to thefts in Bonn or Halle, and the branch remains closed as the Bohrer unit of more than 200 officers continues the inquiry.