German Poker Tournament Robbery
German Poker Tournament Robbery – German police expect to make arrests soon after a brazen robbery at Germany’s largest poker tournament at the luxury Grand Hyatt hotel in Berlin at the weekend.
The head of the German police union, Rainer Wendt, said on Monday that the four armed men who attempted to steal the million-euro Poker jackpot at the European Poker Tournament on Saturday had left behind “a mountain of evidence” and had “plunged to new depths of stupidity.”
Wendt was referring to the fact the criminals carried out the raid in front of surveillance cameras.
“This was clearly not the work of professionals,” he told the German news channel NTV.
A headshot of Rainer WendtBildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Germany’s police union chief expects arrests soon
Wendt sharply criticized the organizers of the poker competition, the European Poker Tour (EPT). He said they should have made sure that there were sufficient security guards at hand when large sums of cash were lying around. The total prize pool in the competition was just under 3.7 million euros ($5 million).
German Poker Tournament Robbery
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