The incident occurred on the night of 11–12 December in Nowogrodziec, on Kościelna Street. After 2:00 a.m., unknown perpetrators tore an ATM out of the wall and stole it.
The police are investigating the case. The Santander bank branch is closed until further notice. The burglars could face up to 10 years in prison.
We will return to this topic.
Let us recall that on the night of 9–10 December, an attempt was made to break into an ATM in Węgliniec (Zgorzelec County). On 1 December, after 2:00 a.m., someone drove a passenger car into the glass sliding doors of a Tesco supermarket in Bolesławiec.
Was this an attempt to break into the store? Doubtful, because there are employees in the supermarket at night. For this reason, suspicion arose that the driver was probably targeting the ATM. The driver fled the scene, and the police set off in pursuit.
Moreover, in mid-November we reported that a similar incident had occurred in Gromadka. In an email to the editorial office, a reader wrote:
While driving past the bank, I noticed a great many police units and a huge hole in the bank wall, where the ATM was.
Earlier, we reported that on the night of 11–12 September, unknown perpetrators attempted to break into a Biedronka store on Wróblewskiego Street in Bolesławiec. At around 4:00 a.m., the alarm went off inside the premises. The duty officer at the County Police Headquarters sent officers to the scene.
It turned out that the perpetrators had attempted to blow up the ATM built into the supermarket wall. However, they did it so ineptly that they failed to steal anything.
It is not yet known whether the cases are connected. We will certainly return to the topic.