Three masked break in with a gulli lid in petrol stations! Police are looking for witnesses!

Three masked break in with a gulli lid in petrol stations! Police are looking for witnesses!

In the night of Thursday, on June 19, three strangers were working at a petrol station in Bedburg. According to a report by Express is now looking for the perpetrators who are at 2:35 a.m. Robert-Bosch-Straße in the Rhein-Erft district committed a brazen burglary.

The three men wore conspicuous clothing: two of them were masked with black storm hoods, while the third was wearing a raised neckerchief. Everyone was dressed in painter suits and sneakers, which indicates a certain planning. To get to the petrol station, they threw a gulli lid through the glass front door. The exact prey has so far been unknown, but the investigators of the Rhein-Erft-Kreis police headquarters are already in use.

another crime in the area

But that was not all: Another break -in occurred a short time later, around 4 a.m., in a petrol station on Aachener Strasse in Frechen. Here, too, the perpetrators made use of a gulli lid to put on a slice and thus reached the interior. They stealed tobacco products and fled in a dark car that is probably similar to an Audi, towards Kerpen-Horrem.

The police found a slice and the gulli lid used at both crime scenes. The similar mode Operandi and the escape vehicle suggest that it could be the same perpetrators as the reports of Presseportal

burglaries in Germany

Insights into the general crime situation in Germany show that burglaries are not a local phenomenon. According to Statista, around 119,000 thefts were recorded in or from apartments in 2023, with 77,800 of these burglaries classified as burglaries. The clearance rate for burglary thefts is currently only 14.9%, the lowest level in years. An increase in burglary has to be observed especially since Corona pandemic, such as the report by Statista Show.

The police therefore ask for the help of the population: Anyone who has information about the burglaries in Bedburg or Frechen can contact 02271 81-0 or by email to poststelle.rhein-erft-kreis@polizei.nrw.de. Every little information can be crucial to grasp these brazen perpetrators in a fresh act.