Düsseldorf/Würzburg (dpa/lnw) - The state of North Rhine-Westphalia is committed to greater cooperation between the federal and state governments in the fight against ATM bombers. According to dpa information, it is about "national networking" in a paper by the Düsseldorf Ministry of the Interior for the Interior Ministers' Conference in Würzburg, which is starting today.
NRW has put the item "Combating the criminal phenomenon of blowing up ATMs" on the agenda. After a decline in the number of cases during the pandemic, the blasts in NRW had recently increased again. But there were also several acts, for example in Rhineland-Palatinate. In the paper, the Düsseldorf Ministry of the Interior advocates a federal-state initiative in order to coordinate better.
You have to sit down together with other departments, authorities and the banks as well as "the countries of origin of the criminals". In its submission, the Ministry of the Interior speaks of a "concerted action" "to minimize dangers to life and limb of the population, prevent crime and effectively prosecute criminals."
In fact, the procedure of the automatic explosives is becoming more and more ruthless: Instead of gas, according to earlier information from the State Criminal Police Office (LKA), they are increasingly using explosives, which sometimes severely damage entire buildings. Most recently, such a crime resulted in an exchange of fire with the police in NRW. In another case, an officer saved himself at the last second from an approaching getaway vehicle.
