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Bank robbery in the Stubai Valley: Alert search in Tyrol!

A picture from the surveillance camera shows the perpetrator. The bank was robbed shortly before 11 am.

(Bild: Johanna Birbaumer/Polizei Tirol)

Yet another bank robbery in Tyrol: late Tuesday morning, the Raiffeisen branch in Mieders in the Stubai Valley was robbed by an armed and masked perpetrator. A manhunt launched immediately was unsuccessful. The robber was able to abscond with the stolen cash.

The robbery took place shortly before 11 am in Mieders. A previously unknown perpetrator stormed into the Raiffeisen branch - masked and with a handgun in his hand - and made it unmistakably clear in German with a foreign accent what he wanted: cash!

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Fled across neighboring fields
Employees complied with the demand. The perpetrator then fled across the adjacent fields. It is not yet clear how much money the stranger managed to steal and is the subject of further investigations, it was reported.

A picture from the surveillance camera shows the perpetrator. The bank was robbed shortly before 11 a.m.

(Bild: Johanna Birbaumer/Polizei Tirol)

Alert manhunt, helicopter also deployed
The police immediately launched a manhunt. Checkpoints with heavily armed officers were set up on the Brenner highway and in the Patsch area. The Libelle Tirol police helicopter and the Cobra special unit were also deployed. However, the search has so far been unsuccessful.

Pictures from the alert search:

Employees unharmed, description of the perpetrator
According to the police, the employees present in the bank were all unharmed. The fugitive perpetrator is between 30 and 40 years old and between 1.70 and 1.75 meters tall. He has a normal build and was wearing a blue hooded jacket and dark gray pants at the time of the crime. He was wearing a FFP2 mask and disposable gloves. The investigators are now hoping for information or suspicious perceptions.

Please send any useful information or suspicious sightings to the Provincial Criminal Police Office Tyrol on 059 133/70-3333.

Bank robber unmasked only last week
There have been several bank robberies in Tyrol in recent months. Most recently at the end of July in Innsbruck. Exactly four weeks after the armed bank robbery in Reichenau, the police were able to track down and arrest a suspect (68) last week. The "robber grandpa" had fled the scene on an e-scooter. He has not confessed.

A BTV branch on Mitterweg in Innsbruck has already been targeted twice this year. Two suspects - an Austrian (24) and a Russian (32) - were arrested after the most recent robbery at the beginning of July. They are in custody. There have also been robberies this year in Innsbruck's O-Dorf and in Kufstein.