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#gelsenkirchen

Thieves had drilled a hole in the wall of the vault of a local Sparkasse savings bank and made off with the contents of almost 3,250 deposit boxes. The robbery, likened by a police spokesperson to the Hollywood film Ocean's Eleven, made international headlines: it is estimated that the thieves' haul could have been worth as much as 300m (260m), a sum that would make it the one of the biggest bank heists in a country wearily familiar with them.