Burglar arrested who drove a car into a luxury store in Hamburg

After a sensational break-in into a high-end boutique in downtown Hamburg in October last year, a 48-year-old was arrested at Essen Central Station on Tuesday. The man is considered an urgent suspect, the Hamburg police said on Wednesday.

According to the investigation, he is said to have driven a stolen car into the window of a "Chanel" branch on Neuer Wall early in the morning on October 18. After the crash, several high-quality bags were stolen. The perpetrator or perpetrators fled on foot, simply leaving the damaged Audi 80, which had previously been stolen in the St. Pauli district, where it was. At the time, the police estimated the value of the stolen goods to be in the mid five-digit range.

Although the officers searched for the thief or thieves in October with 16 patrol cars, the search was initially unsuccessful. The investigations, meanwhile taken over by the department for special burglary crimes of the State Criminal Police Office, finally led the officers to the man's trail. The department, which emerged from Soko "Castle", focuses, among other things, on international burglar gangs.

The Hamburg officials obtained an arrest warrant for the man, who comes from Montenegro. This was finally enforced by the federal police in the North Rhine-Westphalian city. You became aware of the Hamburg arrest warrant during an ID check of the 48-year-old. The man is now in custody.

The spectacular burglary in the Chanel branch was not the only one of its kind in the Hanseatic city. At the beginning of January, three previously unknown men tried to break into a pawn shop and jewelry store in Hamburg's Harburg district with a car.

They had previously stolen the car a few kilometers away in Hamburg-Wilstorf. However, they were unsuccessful in destroying the bars securing the store's windows. So they fled without taking anything. So far they have not been caught. It is not known whether there is a connection between the crimes.