Overview
- Plainclothes Bayreuth traffic police observed the scheme on Friday evening and arrested all ten suspects at the scene in Himmelkron, Landkreis Kulmbach.
- Two participants held the automatic doors open so four others could exit with full bags without passing the checkouts before heading to a waiting VW transporter.
- Officers intervened as some suspects sealed shopping bags with tape and later found additional bags and suitcases with suspected stolen goods in the vehicle.
- Police seized sweets valued at several hundred euros, with investigators saying the group appeared to target chocolate.
- An investigative judge remanded six suspects aged 23 to 50, reported as residents of Romania, while the driver, a front-seat passenger, and two others were released after paying a security deposit.