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🚨 The biggest bank heist in Germany's history carried out by an Arab gang! 🧠💰
In this video we take you to the heart of one of the smartest robberies that baffled the German police!
How did the gang plan the bank robbery without leaving any trace?
What brilliant trick did they use to breach the security systems?
And most importantly... how did they pull off a legendary escape as if they were ghosts? 👻🚗💨
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In this video we take you to the heart of one of the smartest robberies that baffled the German police!
How did the gang plan the bank robbery without leaving any trace?
What brilliant trick did they use to breach the security systems?
And most importantly... how did they pull off a legendary escape as if they were ghosts? 👻🚗💨
📽️ Watch the full story of a heist like a Hollywood movie — but 100% real!
👇 Don’t miss the untold details!
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00:00Our story today is about one of the smartest and greatest thefts in the history of Germany.
00:06The intriguing part of this theft is that it was not carried out by Europeans or Germans,
00:12but by a brilliant Arab gang. Due to the extreme cleverness of this operation,
00:17the German government tried to keep the details of the incident under wraps because what happened
00:22put the German authorities in a very embarrassing position in front of the world. The theft revealed
00:28the cunning of the thieves, which surpassed the police's expertise in handling major crimes,
00:35making it one of the most daring and thrilling operations in German history. An armed gang
00:42stormed a bank and took customers and employees hostage. The police quickly surrounded the entire
00:49area and began lengthy negotiations with the gang members. After hours of discussions,
00:55the police decided to storm the bank to end the crisis, but upon entering, a shocking surprise
01:02awaited them, as the criminals had disappeared without leaving any trace or evidence behind.
01:08Despite the police surrounding the bank from all sides, the question arose, where did the thieves go,
01:16and how did they manage to escape? The events of our true story begin in the heart of the German
01:24capital, Berlin, on the 27th of June, 1995. At 10 o'clock in the morning, when the police and special
01:33forces moved towards one of the banks in response to a robbery alarm, they surrounded the bank completely
01:41upon arrival. They discovered that sixteen employees and customers were held hostage inside the bank by
01:50three armed men wearing masks that concealed their faces, and they were armed with machine guns,
01:59pistols, and hand grenades. And when they saw the danger of the weapons the thieves were carrying,
02:05they realized the difficulty of the mission, so they requested assistance from the military tactical
02:11forces to handle the situation. I immediately went to the bank, and snipers quickly spread over the
02:18rooftops of the buildings surrounding the bank until it was surrounded from all sides in just a few
02:25minutes. At the same time, the media arrived at the scene and began covering the events, spreading the
02:33news throughout the country. Afterwards, they closed off the entire area and prevented civilians or any
02:40unauthorized person from entering. Then, the police and authorities established a direct line of
02:46communication with the gang inside the bank to learn their demands. After thirty minutes of negotiations,
02:53one of the gunmen released a hostage carrying a message in his hand.
02:57The gunmen say in this message that they are demanding a ransom of twelve million dollars.
03:04The message also includes a warning that any attempt by the police to storm the bank
03:09will directly lead to shooting the hostages and then exchanging fire with the police.
03:16As time passed, the police tried to reopen negotiations with the gang, demanding the release of some
03:24hostages before giving them the money. However, the gunmen refused the police's demands and remained firm in their
03:32decision. When the police tried to communicate with them again, the response from the gang was shocking,
03:38as they cut off all lines of communication with the police and refused to talk or negotiate with them for
03:44five hours.
03:45During this period, the police and authorities waited anxiously because they did not know what was
03:52happening inside the bank and could not do anything. Finally, at six o'clock in the evening, the silence was
04:01broken. A young mother, one of the hostages, was forced to call a local radio station in Berlin with a
04:09trembling and panic-filled voice. She began pleading for help and rescue for herself and the other
04:17hostages. This call was a very clever move by the gang, as people became more sympathetic to the hostages and
04:26more
04:26worried about their fate, especially when they heard the voice of this mother pleading for her life. This put the
04:34police
04:34and authorities under great pressure to provide the money and deliver it to the gang as quickly as possible.
04:41However, despite the increasing pressure and tension on the police, they remained firm in their stance and refused to
04:49comply with the gunmen's demands, continuing to surround the bank without providing any official response.
04:56On the other hand, the gang also held its position and refused to communicate directly with the police.
05:03After an hour passed, the police began to raise troubling questions. Why does this gang refuse to
05:10speak directly with them and allow the hostages to contact the radio and ask for help from people?
05:17This seemed mysterious to them. In any case, the police did not take any actual steps and remained content
05:25with monitoring and waiting. But moments later, the gang announced that their patients had run out and
05:32started firing into the sky. When the police heard the sound of gunfire coming from inside the bank,
05:38a state of panic and tension spread among the security forces. None of them knew exactly what was
05:45happening, but they believed that the gunmen had started carrying out their threats or had shot one of
05:51the hostages. Immediately, the security leaders gathered and began discussing all possible options to
05:58deal with the situation, with one of them suggesting bringing an armored truck and storming the bank by
06:04force. But before they could execute any plan, something strange happened that turned the tables.
06:12Suddenly, a masked gunman came out of the bank holding a hostage and headed directly in front of the police
06:19and the media.
06:20He shouted angrily, saying that we will start shooting all the hostages one by one if you do not meet
06:28our
06:28demands immediately. This open threat doubled the pressure on the police and authorities, who found themselves in a
06:36very difficult position between rescuing the hostages and preventing the situation from escalating further.
06:43After intense discussions between the police and authorities, they decided to take a strategic step to
06:49resolve the crisis by bringing one-third of the ransom amount requested by the gunmen, which is $4 million,
06:56as a gesture to show the gunmen their goodwill to resolve this crisis peacefully. And at 7.30 in the
07:04evening,
07:04this money was delivered to the gang by a police officer wearing only his underwear to assure the
07:11gunman that he was unarmed. After receiving the money again, the gunman cut off all means of
07:18communication, leaving the police in a state of anticipation and waiting for two and a half hours
07:23without any updates or news. They did not know what the gunmen were doing inside the bank. The situation
07:30remained the same until the police phone rang again. The callers were the gang members calling from the
07:37bank's phone. This time, they asked the police to bring a bus for them in front of the bank with
07:44the
07:44remaining ransom amount inside it, in addition to bringing a helicopter and placing it in a neighborhood
07:51close to the bank. They also informed the police that they would leave the bank for the bus
07:56at exactly two o'clock in the morning. The police agreed to the gang's demands and prepared the
08:03bus with the required amount. At midnight, the bus was ready in front of the bank with all the
08:10arrangements. A helicopter was also ready. Waiting for them at the location previously specified by the
08:18gunman. When two o'clock in the morning arrived, the gunman did not move as they had promised the police,
08:24which meant they were still inside the bank. Therefore, the police decided to wait and monitor
08:30in front of the bank for another hour and a half. At 3.30 in the morning, the police received
08:35a call from
08:36the bank. This time, the caller was not one of the gang members, but the call was from the bank
08:43manager
08:43himself with a trembling voice. He informed the police that all the gunmen went down to the basement
08:50and did not reappear. Without hesitation, the police command gave an immediate order for the special
08:57forces to quickly storm the bank, and when they entered, they took control of the ground floor,
09:03where they found all the hostages safe, and none of them were harmed. They evacuated them from the bank.
09:10Then the special forces officers went down to the basement. After searching it carefully,
09:16they found no one there. They realized that the only place the gunmen might be hiding was the bank's
09:22vault. They went down to it and surrounded the vault door from the right and left. They opened it
09:28slightly and then threw a flashbang inside the vault. Then they stormed the place forcefully,
09:34and when they entered the vault they were unexpectedly shocked as they found no one inside. They also
09:41discovered that more than two hundred safety deposit boxes had been opened, and their contents, including
09:48money and valuable jewelry worth millions of dollars, had been stolen. The strange thing is that the gang
09:55completely disappeared from the bank without leaving any trace, even though the police had surrounded the
10:01place from all angles. The question arises again. Where did they disappear to? For many, this is considered
10:10the smartest bank robbery in history. The planner and mastermind of this operation was merely a technical
10:18assistant for x-rays in a hospital in Germany. He was fired due to some issues, which left him unemployed,
10:27and no one wanted to hire him again. Instead of surrendering to his reality, he decided to plan a massive
10:34robbery
10:35and execute it with the help of a group of his friends and acquaintances. So how did this simple man
10:41transform
10:42from a technician in a hospital to the mastermind of the largest bank heist in history? And how could he
10:51and his friends
10:52steal money and valuable jewelry worth more than 12 million dollars and then suddenly disappear without
11:01leaving a trace? The hero of our story is a Syrian man named Khaled Al Barrazi. He left his country
11:09for
11:09Germany in 1986 to improve his life circumstances. After a short time spent in the German capital, Berlin,
11:17he got a job in a hospital as an x-ray technician assistant, but his expectations for a better life
11:24in Germany were not met, and his income was not sufficient for him during that period. This led Khaled
11:31to become involved in the world of crime, where he started by stealing medications and equipment from
11:37the hospital. Over time, he escalated his crimes to drug trafficking. But the police quickly arrested him,
11:45and he served a prison sentence for two years from 1991 to 1993. Inside the prison, Khaled met another
11:54person with the same ideas and ambitions named Jambri. A strong relationship quickly developed between
12:02them, and they became friends. Since then, the two began planning the biggest bank robbery in Germany's
12:10history after their release from prison. He began searching for their suitable target in the streets
12:17of Berlin. Khaled had a brother named Tony, who owned a car repair shop in an upscale neighborhood. Khaled
12:25began searching within the area where his brother's workshop was located. After a long search, they chose
12:32their target, which was a branch of the trade bank. To execute their plan, Khaled dressed elegantly, and
12:40pretended to be a customer interested in the bank's services. He went to the bank and asked them about
12:45the methods they offer to protect valuable items inside the private vaults. An employee took him to the
12:52basement where the safety deposit boxes are kept, and as soon as he laid eyes on the hundreds of those
12:58boxes,
13:00Khaled's mouth watered when he realized that inside lay priceless treasures and wealth.
13:08After leaving the bank, Khaled decided to look for a third person to help them rob this bank,
13:13as he believes that carrying out such operations requires a multidisciplinary team. Therefore, Khaled
13:20suggested to his friend Ibrahim to join them and presented him with the idea. As soon as he heard that,
13:26Ibrahim got excited and quickly accepted the offer, and he started thinking with them about making a
13:31plan to rob this bank. Thanks to the city's public archive, they were able to find the architectural
13:37plans of the bank building. They discovered that the building was originally a clothing store before
13:42it became a bank. Because of these plans, Khaled knew that the floor in the basement was relatively weak,
13:49so they decided to dig a tunnel underground. It was easy to execute because the soil in Berlin is mostly
13:57composed of sand. The ground was not hard or rocky, making digging very easy. Khaled and Ibrahim realized
14:07that the real challenge was not in the digging itself, but in choosing the right place to start digging first,
14:14and then how to reach the bank's vault second. After that, they searched for the closest place
14:20to the bank where they could start digging, and they found an empty garage near the bank.
14:25This garage is about 200 meters away from the bank. Khaled did not hesitate to seize the opportunity.
14:32He contacted the garage owner and told him that he was a Greek merchant needing to rent the garage to
14:38store his goods. After brief negotiations, they reached an agreement on their rental price. After
14:44securing the garage to start digging, the next step was to find a team to carry out this operation with
14:51them. The first person they recruited was Khaled's brother, Tony, who owns a car workshop near the bank.
14:58As for Ibrahim, he took on the responsibility of gathering the rest of the gang members,
15:03because he knows many people who might be willing to carry out such an operation.
15:08Ibrahim then recruited another person. From the Arab community in Berlin, named Musa,
15:16he convinced him to join them. Thus, the team became five people, Khaled, his brother Tony Gambrium,
15:23Ibrahim, and his friend Musa. In June 1994, these five started working on digging the tunnel from the
15:32garage. The operation was complex and divided into two phases. The first was digging the sand and
15:39removing it from the tunnel. The second was reinforcing the tunnel to prevent its collapse,
15:45where they used more than three tons of wood and metal to create a strong support structure to
15:50maintain the tunnel's stability and prevent it from collapsing. In addition, they installed ventilation
15:57pipes and electrical wires to provide lighting inside the tunnel. They were always digging nonstop for
16:04twelve to fourteen hours a day, with two or three of them taking turns each time. Khaled and his team
16:11named this project The Dream and continued working nonstop for five consecutive months, overcoming all
16:18difficulties to accomplish their plan. Despite all the efforts made during this period, they were only able to
16:26dig a third of the distance to the bank. To reach the bank quickly, Khaled proposed a very clever plan.
16:34Since they were digging directly towards the bank, they knew it would take them more time and double the
16:41effort. Instead, Khaled's plan was to dig towards the stormwater drainage pipe used during heavy rains and
16:50storms as this pipe runs along the street and reaches a place very close to the bank. After months of
16:59continuous
16:59work, Khaled and his companions succeeded in reaching the drainage pipe, through which they passed until
17:07they reached the area near the bank. Then they began digging a new tunnel again, extending from the pipe to
17:15the bank's vault where the safes are located. However, this stage was more difficult than the previous tunnel,
17:21as they faced a major challenge because they needed to dispose of the soil resulting from the digging
17:27outside the tunnel, and the distance was too far to carry it back to the garage. Despite these obstacles,
17:33the team continued digging, but this time very slowly, and they continued the digging operations for a
17:40few more days. Then, one day, an unexpected event occurred. While working in the tunnel, Khaled saw
17:49workers in front of the bank, exactly above the same place where they were digging the tunnel.
17:55These workers were maintaining the cables directly above the tunnel. Khaled and his friends realized they
18:03had to act quickly, remove the supports from one part of the tunnel, and let it collapse. Because the
18:10workers digging above during the excavation and maintenance would discover it, and thus their plan
18:17would fail. Due to this sudden development, they decided to temporarily stop digging and wait until
18:24the workers above the tunnel completed their work, which took a full four months. However, they were lucky
18:32because the workers never found the tunnel. After months of stopping, Khaled and his team returned to
18:39work and continued digging towards the bank's vault. Finally, after about a year of digging and hard work,
18:47they managed to reach the bank vault. Ibrahim suggested that they sneak into the vault through the tunnel at
18:54night during the weekend, to have enough time to steal everything and escape in the best condition.
19:00But they faced a new challenge. This bank was equipped with surveillance cameras and advanced alarm systems,
19:10which meant there was a high possibility of being caught during the operation. Therefore,
19:17they needed a new plan to distract the police from them.
19:21And here Khaled had a crazy idea that no one expected and the police would never think of.
19:31And on the morning of the 27th of June, 1995, Khaled, along with his brother Tony and his friend
19:39Ibrahim, stormed the bank through the front door armed with heavy weapons, and upon entering the
19:44middle of the bank, they took everyone present as hostages. At first, the operation appeared to be
19:51just a traditional armed robbery, which made the police focus only on negotiating with them.
19:58During these negotiations, Khaled and Tony took responsibility for managing the hostages
20:03and negotiating with the police. Meanwhile, their friend Ibrahim went to the basement,
20:09entered the bank vault, and started drilling a small hole in the floor. Through this hole,
20:14the remaining two members of the team entered the underground tunnel using drilling machines and
20:20necessary equipment. Once they entered the bank vault, they began breaking and opening the locks of
20:26the safety deposit boxes, taking advantage of the chaos upstairs to complete their operation
20:32without drawing attention. When the police arrived at the scene, Khaled sent one of the
20:38hostages carrying a message specifying the ransom amount. After the first few hours, another hostage
20:45was released. Then contact with the police was cut off for five full hours. The main goal of these actions
20:52was not merely to signal good intentions to the police, but to confuse them and distract their attention
21:00to gain more time. Because during this period, the rest of the gang members in the basement
21:06were working non-stop to open as many safety deposit boxes as possible, and when they managed to break in,
21:15they found real treasures of jewelry and gold. Then they began packing the loot into bags. After that,
21:24they placed them on a special sled to transport them quickly through the tunnel leading to the garage.
21:31At the same time, Khaled continued to outsmart the police with his genius, resorting to a new clever trick
21:39by allowing one of the hostages to speak to the public through a radio station. This action increased
21:46a lot of pressure on the police and authorities, causing them to become confused again and hesitant to
21:52carry out any sudden intervention. Then Khaled added a new trick to pressure the authorities. He fired two
21:59shots at the ceiling, which suggested to the police that the situation had become more dangerous,
22:05giving his team more time for the theft and escape, as the police thought the gunmen had started
22:11shooting at the hostages, significantly increasing the pressure on them.
22:15Fearing an escalation of events, they handed over one-third of the ransom demanded by the gang to
22:22calm the situation. The authorities handed over four million dollars to Khaled and his gang while they
22:29were opening all the safety deposit boxes in the vault. After they finished collecting the loot,
22:35they requested the police to provide a bus and a helicopter as part of their escape plan,
22:41and that was the last contact between them and the police. After midnight, while everyone was
22:48unaware, the gang members quietly descended through the hole they had dug in the basement floor,
22:53then sneaked through the tunnel until they reached the garage. At the same time, the police were
23:00surrounding the bank from all angles, waiting for the gang to exit through the front door. However, Khaled and
23:06his companions succeeded in passing beneath their feet without being noticed. As soon as they reached the
23:13garage, they left immediately, carrying with them more than twelve million dollars in cash and jewelry.
23:20After they completed the operation, the special forces quickly stormed the bank.
23:26It did not take long for the police to discover the tunnel through which the thieves escaped,
23:31and when they followed the path of this tunnel it led them directly to the garage. On the other hand,
23:39the thieves had planned everything with great care, leaving no trace behind that night.
23:45The gang members returned to their homes quietly, as if nothing had happened.
23:50They sat in front of the television watching news reports about their crime, while Khaled was completely
23:56confident in the success of his plan and certain that they left no evidence behind. Therefore,
24:02he ordered everyone to stay in Berlin and continue their daily lives normally without arousing suspicion.
24:10However, the police were not ready to give up so easily, as they formed a special investigation
24:14team consisting of sixty investigators, all determined to solve the mystery of the theft.
24:20This team began investigating and analyzing every step of the operation,
24:25searching for any clue that might lead them to this gang. The first task was to carefully examine the bank,
24:32but they found nothing. No fingerprints or any DNA traces belonging to any of the gunmen.
24:40Afterwards, the investigators interrogated the hostages, hoping that one of them had noticed
24:45something useful, or information, that could help them find the people who carried out this operation.
24:52The only information they obtained was that the gunmen might have been of Arab origin based on their
25:00accent while speaking. Immediately, the investigators went to the garage owner and interrogated him. He
25:08told them that he rented his garage to a Greek man who claimed to be a merchant, and that's all
25:14he knows
25:15about him. The investigators continued searching for any sign or evidence leading them to the thieves.
25:22Suddenly, luck was on their side when a construction worker, working in a building near the garage,
25:28told them he saw three men with Arab features throwing sand on the building where he was working.
25:34Therefore, the investigators went to the site and took a small sample of the sand to examine it in the
25:42lab.
25:42The tests showed that this sand was exactly identical to the sand inside the tunnel,
25:50which means that the two men who were throwing sand at the construction site are members of the gang.
25:57Based on the description provided by the construction worker, the police drew sketches of the suspects,
26:03which were quickly published in newspapers and broadcast on television stations,
26:07in the hope that someone would recognize them. A few days later, the police received a call from an
26:13anonymous person saying that there is a man. He works in a car workshop near the bank. His facial
26:20features resemble one of the people drawn in the published pictures. This man was none other than
26:26Tony Al-Barzi, Khalid's brother. The police immediately headed to his workshop and began questioning him,
26:33asking some questions, but he repeatedly insisted that he knew nothing about the theft or anyone who
26:40might be involved in it. However, the investigators did not believe him, and their suspicions increased
26:47even more. During the interrogation, one of the officers noticed that Tony was drinking juice,
26:53so her waited until he finished and took the can without drawing his attention. The can was sent to the
26:59lab to verify his fingerprints. They also checked his name in their database. The results showed that
27:07Tony has a brother named Khalid Al-Barzi, who was imprisoned a few years ago on several criminal charges.
27:15From this moment, Khalid and Tony became the main suspects in the case, and the police directed their
27:21investigations entirely towards them. However, they did not have enough evidence to arrest them.
27:26Meanwhile, the authorities decided to conduct a thorough examination of the tunnel and requested assistance
27:33from the army to conduct a precise survey before dismantling it. They conducted a full scan of the tunnel
27:40using the latest technologies in an attempt to find any trace that could lead them directly to the
27:46perpetrators. However, despite all the efforts made by the police and the army, they failed.
27:53Then the army returned to the site again and began dismantling the tunnel. But this time,
27:59they used advanced infrared scanning techniques. Every piece of wood removed from the tunnel was
28:06examined carefully. And after thorough inspections, they finally found the first piece of evidence.
28:13They obtained a fingerprint imprinted on one of the wooden boards used to support the tunnel. This
28:20fingerprint was the only evidence the investigators obtained, but it was enough to link one of the
28:26gang members to the crime. This fingerprint belonged to its owner, Tony Al-Barzi. Following this discovery,
28:34the police immediately arrested Tony and took him to the interrogation room. The investigators continued
28:40questioning him for seven continuous hours. During the investigation, Tony became very confused and
28:47extremely nervous. The investigators kept pressing him until he finally broke down and started confessing
28:52to the investigators, telling them everything. He revealed to them the full details of the operation
28:58and the names of all the gang members led by his brother Khaled, the mastermind of the operation.
29:04The police quickly moved to arrest the rest of the gang members and managed to capture Khaled and Jambri
29:11while they were fleeing outside Germany. As for the remaining two members of the gang, Ibrahim and Musa,
29:17they were tracked down and arrested as well. Faced with overwhelming evidence, they confessed to their
29:24crimes after being convicted of the charges against them. The trial continued for a few months. Afterwards,
29:31the court issued prison sentences ranging from five years to ten years, except for Khaled, who was
29:40sentenced to 14 years in prison as the mastermind of the operation. Khaled also had a golden opportunity
29:48to escape immediately after carrying out the operation, but he delayed in Berlin, confident that
29:53the police would not find any evidence leading to him. His arrogance and overconfidence were the reasons
29:59for his downfall in the end. However, although the police arrested all the gang members, most of the stolen
30:06money remained a hidden mystery. The authorities managed to recover only one-third of the amount, while eight
30:14million dollars remained completely hidden, and no one knew where it went. However, Khaled was the only person
30:24who knew the location of the remaining money, but he refused to talk despite several attempts by the
30:30police to persuade him. Afterward, the investigators offered him a reduced sentence in exchange for
30:36revealing the location of the money, but he decided to remain silent and not speak. Because he was sure
30:43of only one thing. After his release from prison in the year 2010, the fortune would be waiting for him
30:50in a
30:50safe place. It's true that he received a prison sentence of 14 years, which is a long time, but in
30:57the end, when he gets out, he will achieve the dream of wealth that he has had since he came
31:01to Germany,
31:02and that dream will become a reality. And thus ended one of the boldest and smartest thefts in the history
31:11of Germany, yet its memory will remain etched in the records of major crimes that almost became perfect.
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