Monday, April 12, 2010
Dusseldorf hunt "Pink Panther gang"
Dusseldorf - The "Pink Panther gang" holds the State Crime investigators in Dusseldorf on their toes.
Investigators received from Interpol, the "honorable" job to find the heads of a global gang, the cold and brutal attacks for years Jewelers, also in the Rhineland.
For example, in Krefeld, Germany in February 2001. With an Audi, the "Pink Panther rammed" a jewelry store in the Rhine street, snatched jewelry for 300,000 euros together. The world's 200-strong gang are currently a dozen burglaries and robberies in North Rhine-Westphalia alone, placed a burden, most recently, 2008 in Mülheim / Ruhr.
At the meeting of "Pink Panther"-investigators from 16 states in Monaco, the joint hunt was opened. This involves high-profile criminals who land their coup, not only in Tokyo or Paris, but also in Krefeld, Cologne, and Moers.
The gang of robbers is attributed to a loss of over 100 million euros. As one in England with a gem in the cream-pot struck, recalled a scene from Scotland Yard, the crime comedy "The Pink Panther" (1963) with Peter Sellers. Since then, the band took its name off.
Head of the heavily-armed gait is a certain Aleksandar Nikolic. His DNA evidence was secured both in Krefeld as well as in Abu Dabi. The biggest coup landed the "Pink Panther" 2008 in Winton luxury jeweler in Paris: fabulous jewelry for 85 million euros away! An arrest as in 2007 in Cologne, is the great exception. The Düsseldorf investigators want more: the head of the gang.