BREAKING! HOSTAGE SITUATION IN BERLIN! BOMB THREAT!

Here is news story i found about it but translation via google is pretty bad.

[link to translate.google.de]

Apparently banks needs to be outlawed.
Banks causes bankrobberies!

The poor robber just couldn't control himself.

Last Edited by -GLP-Christian- on 12/21/2012 03:56 PM

The police are in negotiations with the hostage-takers in the bank. "For us, such a situation a very serious situation. This is dangerous, what happens here," a police spokesman said at the Place of work

we need to BAN booms

The saftey cordon has been widened to 500 meters. There are no cameras running and reporters do not have a direct view to the bank.

he is still in there 1 hostage...apparently the banks ceo.

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Wow, he got the big guy.

according to bild.de its not the ceo but some random employer. The ceo is having lunch in the greek restaurant on the other side of the street. Im not kidding! Its kind of ironic.

Rbb alleging that police have asked the service station operators in the area, shut off the fuel tanks - a precaution in case there really is an explosion.

300 policemen are there

Double post

Last Edited by Ger_reG on 12/21/2012 04:35 PM

Hehe, a bit of tzatziki is great for the blood pressure and the stress.
Bild is not very trustworthy though, do they have better coverage with the breaking news or is it like their other news?

yes, their regular news are trash. But for breaking news they are pretty good cause they are well connected.

Look for yourself, lol:

Thnx for info.

so.... how is a bank robbery in berlin pin worthy though? just sayin...

Always Berlin.

not necsesarily.i know lots of wannabe infamous suicide by cop loonies.

not necsesarily.i know lots of wannabe infamous suicide by cop loonies.

The CEO is in Frankfurt. The hostage is not the branch manager.

oh dear, here we go. i live not far from there, it is a small subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, located in a suburban Berlin neighborhood which one would describe as rather very posh, that is, quite elegant, rich, green, relaxed, residences of ambassadors, the federal presidents mansion, large houses in general with vast gardens.

here, about 700 meters as the crow flies from that bank: nothing to see, nothing to hear, not ten minutes walk from my house and perfect silence, some police sirens in the distance once an hour. the only annoyance is that the main streets of the south-western part of berlin are blocked now due to this idiot, as are several important bus lines. who the heck robs a bank these days, let alone such a small subsidiary?! news states that there are more than 500 police forces there, special forces, snipers, you name it. the idiot of a bank robber took a hostage, seems it is the bank manager, and threatens to blow up the building (alass no confirmation yet by the police on that), which would not be a loss, that building is an ugly postmodern architectural impertinence inmidst of an otherwise beautyful neighborhood.mainly built in imperial times before 1914.

as long as no innocent people get hurt and as long as i am not in danger here by a possible explosion i could not care less. i hope that idiot of a bank robber gets detained or shot before i go to buy some christmas stuff in the shops of the area directly neighbouring that bank tomorrow, i am not in the mood to change plans and be forced to drive downtown due to some idiot blocking people from doing their christmas shopping in their neighbourhood and ruining the most strong-selling days of the year for all those small shops and businesses around there who need the revenue of these days to make ends meet.

Do you live north or south of the S-Bahn Zehlendorf?

the police spokesman, every newspaper and all tv and radio news stations are telling that the hostage is the bank manager and that his terrified wife has been taken care of by a police psychologist.

so, where do you get your first-hand information? ...

Not first-hand, from the Morgenpost live stream

+++ 20.26 Uhr +++

Bei der Geisel soll es sich um einen 40 Jahre alten Mann aus dem Berliner Umland handeln. Der Polizei zufolge ist es nicht der Filalleiter der Bank. Seine Frau wird psychologisch betreut.


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north. the two gas stations on Berliner Straße have been evacuated and closed down, as are all homes around the direct area of that bank. seems the bomb threat is taken quite serious by the police if they force the gas stations to close, as these are quite some way down the road, about 500 meters north up the avenue. damned! i am not in the mood to leave home if they widen that evacuation zone. hopefully they will not.

Deutsche Bank has two CEOs: Jain and Fitschen, and they are certainly not having dinner in Zehlendorf right now.

First: Terrible newspaper. Second: 20:26h. It is now 00:23 here. Old news, bad news.

I live a few kilometers from the bank and just heard some police cars. But nothing unusual. Hope this incident won't cause you any more trouble and you can stay safely in your house. 700 meters should be ok and out of the danger zone.

This is BS, i worked for one bank ATM manutention central, and i know is impossible acces atm pc trough the card reader, because this device is programed just to read the simple card information, not to upload and run one program.
Those guys are technicians who work for the bank, so they have free acces to the ATM's but if they loose some money they have just pay back.