...now to something completely different, as Monty Pythons would say - from German yahoo, courtesy of DJ
some just cant wait the print ink to dry
For the first time in Germany a money transporter with euro and DM cash has been robbed. Close to Giessen the criminals stole Eurobank notes and also, momentarily still an unknown, but probably great, amount of old cash.
The police had spoken first of a heist in the order of five to six million Marks. The enterprise, that was hit, however disclaimed this total later in the evening: this number lies " factors above the actually stolen amount".
The crime occurred at 11.05 o'clock on a highway between Lich and Fernwald in the Giessen county. The 35 years old driver Halil Yurtsever from New Isenburg, together with an accomplice, who waited at the site of crime, supposedly bound and disarmed the second security person riding in the car. The criminals are still on the run.
They were looking for DM notes in the first place. They left larger quantities of euro-banknotes on the scene, after ripping open individual packages and taking unknown quantity of new bank notes with them, so the police.
The Euro-banknotes could serve as prototypes for falsificators before the official introduction of new money on 1 January 2002. Larger quantities of D-mark notes, however, would be difficult to dispose of before the cash conversion deadline, the police say.
According to the European central bank (EZB) the euro-robbery does not have any effect on the security of the new currency. " There is no currency in the world, which is safer ", said EZB speaker Nile Buenemann in Frankfurt.
The Giessener police is looking for a dark red OPEL Vectra and a likewise red Ford Escort Orion with the number OF-XG 470. A witness implicated also a black Audi A4 with the F-M 9707 plates. |
