{"id":61130,"date":"2026-08-07T15:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/spain-hands-over-70-year-old-suspect-in-2014-german-bank-heist\/07\/08\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:10:16","slug":"spain-hands-over-70-year-old-suspect-in-2014-german-bank-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/spain-hands-over-70-year-old-suspect-in-2014-german-bank-heist\/07\/08\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain hands over 70-year-old suspect in 2014 German bank heist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\" data-body-type=\"bodyblocks\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police in Spain have arrested and extradited a 70-year-old suspect in a spectacular bank robbery 12 years ago in the German city of Aachen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Spanish national was apprehended in Zaragoza in late July and handed over to German authorities on Friday, the Aachen police reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He is alleged to have robbed the PAX-Bank in November 2014 along with several accomplices, netting themselves a haul of more than \u20ac400,000 ($461,000).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least five perpetrators first overpowered cleaning staff in the building&#8217;s stairwell. They then intercepted 16 bank employees at the entrance, threatened them with firearms and bounded them with cable ties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two employees were finally forced at gunpoint to open the safe before the robbers fled with the loot, leaving behind them clothing and other items used in the heist.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Other perpetrators still unknown<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 33-year-old woman was arrested and sentenced in 2017 to seven and a half years in prison for her involvement in the robbery. Now, investigators have detained a second suspect. However, at least three other participants in the crime remain at large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to police, there are indications that the same group of perpetrators committed three additional bank robberies in Aachen between 2009 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation so far suggests that, at the time of the crime, the two arrested individuals belonged to a &#8220;Europe-wide network of left-wing populist or far-left extremist groups,&#8221; a police statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/world\/articles\/spain-hands-over-70-old-183325521.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Spain have arrested and extradited a 70-year-old suspect in a spectacular bank robbery 12 years ago in the German city<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/spain-hands-over-70-year-old-suspect-in-2014-german-bank-heist\/07\/08\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/416d502ce3c97522baa1ea1d1c515453f2f42c53b4771c1712c828e037528e3e\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefill_w1200%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_jpg\/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fdpa_international_526%2F373d8da96f2bc7c5475f822a911fac3e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}