Robber terror in Borken: Occurrence employees under the threat of breakage!

Robber terror in Borken: Occurrence employees under the threat of breakage!

In the night of Saturday, January 11, 2025, a player attack was committed to an employee of an arcade in Borken, North Hesse. At around 3:10 a.m., the 23-year-old employee opened the door and suddenly faced two unknown men who were armed with a crowbar. The perpetrators asked him to lie on the floor while one of them pressed the breakage of his back. Fortunately, the employee was not injured. At that time there were no other people in the arcade.

The situation quickly escalated: While the first robber removed the money from the cash register and an open safe, the second perpetrator stood at the front door and kept guard. The prey was stowed away in a backpack before the two men fled in an unknown direction. So far there has been no information about the amount of the stolen amount, and the police immediately initiated a search for the perpetrators, which has so far been unsuccessful.

description of the perpetrator and investigation

The perpetrators were described as follows: the first perpetrator is male, between 30 and 40 years old, has a strong stature and is about 1.80 meters tall. He was wearing a black hat, a black scarf, a dark jacket and light gray work trousers with reflectors and nike gymnastics shoes and carried the breakage with him. The second perpetrator is also male and has a size of around 1.80 meters. He was dressed with a light baseball cap, a beige jacket and dark work pants with reflectors, so reports HNA.

The criminal police in Homberg has taken over the investigation and asks the population for clues to identify the perpetrators. Witnesses can report on 0561/9100. This attack is part of a worrying trend in crime statistics. According to the records of the Federal Criminal Police Office, there has been an increase in robberies on arcades in Germany since 2013. This development also received special attention because of a past incident in July 2024, when four men were sentenced to a drugstore in Borken after an attack.

Such raids on arcades are not an isolated case in the region. Cases have been recorded again and again in recent years. This is a significant threat to the employees and customers concerned. The developments of recent years show that the police and the public have to work intensively on the education and prevention of such crimes.