The Heilbronn police smash international thieves!

The Heilbronn police smash international thieves!

The international gang, which was responsible for the theft of high -streak cables in Germany, was uncovered and smashed. Operations were carried out in a joint commitment to the Heilbronn public prosecutor and the police, supported by Europol, both in Germany and in Bulgaria. In total, the crime series leads to 48 documented cases that have caused damage of more than one million euros. Among the crime scenes were construction sites in Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Saarland, as the authorities report.

arrests and searches

As part of the operation that started on Tuesday morning, 24 apartments and six vehicles were searched in Bulgaria. At the same time, there was a search at eleven locations in Hesse and one in Saarland. In Germany, more than 100 police officers were deployed, while in Bulgaria their 93 and two prosecutors were active. These concerted measures led to the arrest of three suspects in Germany and five others in Bulgaria, which are currently in the custody of the Bulgarian authorities. The public prosecutor is now planning to deliver the Bulgarian suspects in order to further promote the investigation, such as swr.de reported.

The investigation was initiated by the covert measures by the police in Heilbronn after it was found that the perpetrators mainly lived in Bulgaria and transferred their profits there. In a far -reaching procedure, Gehler was also targeted, which had bought from the gang in the Frankfurt am Main Diebesgut area. In this regard, searches in private and business rooms also took place in order to further expose the illegal trading networks, so sr.de .