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Armed Robber Flees After Failed Attempt To Rob Of Zurich Bank

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Update: the robber has supposedly managed to flee the scene. From Ynetnews:

Mizrahi-Tefahot bank in Zurich was the site of an attempted robbery; the robber fled the scene and did not manage to steal any money after Special Forces arrived at the scene.

 

Swiss media outlets reported that a robbery had taken place at the Israeli owned Mizrahi-Tefahot bank in Zurich on Wednesday afternoon. According to the reports in Switzerland, the man behind the robbery was in possession of two guns and had managed to run away without firing shots and with no money.

 

Swiss news site Blick reported that the man attempted to rob the bank but one of the workers was able to sound the alarm and some of the workers in the bank managed to flee the building.

 

According to the report, the robber sat with the manager of the bank and demanded money. Special Forces arrived at the scene and began preparing to break into the building; however he robber managed to flee the bank before they began to do so.

 

Three years ago, US authorities began investigating the Mizrahi-Tefahot bank and Bank Leumi branches in Switzerland on suspicion they had aided customers in tax evasion. Recently, the Mizrahi-Tefahot branch was asked to provide data about its activities to authorities.

 

The bank located in Zurich is a subsidiary to the Israeli Mizrahi-Tefahot bank that was founded in 1923. The bank, which is registered as a Swiss bank and subject to Swiss law, mainly engages in private banking.

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While it has yet to make the major wires, there are numerous reports of an attempted robbery taking place at a branch at United Mizrahi Bank Schweiz on Nyushelershtrasse in Zurich.

According to RIA the scene has been cordoned off with a large police presence as seen in the photos below. As RIA further adds, the police is preparing to storm the bank building, where, allegedly armed robbers have barricaded themselves and may have taken hostages.

 


Further media reports indicate that the alleged robber was armed with two pistols. RIA also adds that bank employees were able to escape from the room on the fourth floor, where the incident occurred, and the location of the attacker is still unknown. There is some speculation hostages may be involved. The 20minutes news portal reported that about 20 riot police in body armor have already entered the building.

 

According to eyewitnesses, the traditionally busy streets in the downtown Zurich area, have been closed of because of the incident for several hours.

 

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Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:32 | 5588282 observer007
Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:33 | 5588290 Dr. Richard Head
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Doesn't this bandit know the best way to rob a bank is to own one?  You think he/she would've learned by the examples of Jamie "Give me all you're money for my derivatives" Dimon. 

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:44 | 5588341 maskone909
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There should be an ETF for bank robberies. Maybe i should create a kickstarter thingy

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:45 | 5588353 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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Probably trying to make a withdrawal.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:47 | 5588364 fuu
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Luckily the gold is not there.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:58 | 5588417 NoDebt
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Has he made a demand to have his ISIS flag delivered yet?  He forgot it again.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 13:46 | 5588842 winchester
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thought google maps was forbidden in germany...

 

fuckin germans, you can't trust a single one of them.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:47 | 5588365 Bearwagon
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I was thinking something like "stress-test" ...

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 14:36 | 5589078 zeroheckler
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G.F.: "Probably trying to make a withdrawal."

 

no - a deposit !

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:32 | 5588288 Soul Glow
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The robbers are soon to find that the vault was already empty.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 14:57 | 5589158 Freddie
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Was the robbers name Corzine?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:35 | 5588296 SHEEPFUKKER
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Where are the barricades and police tape for ZIRP and NIRP? That's bank robbery of the highest order. 

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:44 | 5588356 Usurious
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banks having been stealing from Humanity for 1,000's of yrs.......

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:37 | 5588306 Tinky
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No American accounts were harmed.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:38 | 5588309 pan
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Luddites bitchez.....

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:38 | 5588311 Counterpunch
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but but...everyone in Switzerland has guns.

 

This is unpossible!

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:37 | 5588313 SethDealer
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is this iranian bank ?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:40 | 5588317 PontifexMaximus
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Jewish

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 16:49 | 5589448 Idaho potato head
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Oy vey...

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:37 | 5588314 dobermangang
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Where's the gold?  Where's all the gold???  There's no freakin gold!

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:52 | 5588393 Bearwagon
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Of course there is! It sits at 60 Victoria Embankment, London. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-16/where-secret-jp-morgan-london-g...
:)

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 12:53 | 5588607 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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It's more safe to hack the bank or to buy stolen account numbers and stolen credit cards on black markets than to do this.

Also, you want to rob a bank ? You can always do QE in your garage with a banknote printing press.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:39 | 5588321 Seize Mars
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The real bank robbers are the Swiss traitors who enforced a peg to the Euro, and who rigged the Swiss gold vote.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:41 | 5588330 SoDamnMad
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They are going to remove the gold in the body bags of the former hostages.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:43 | 5588335 the not so migh...
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it will be an empty vault with a used roach fogger in the middle of the floor

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:42 | 5588337 in-Credible Banker
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Damn!  I've eaten at Kaufleuten before.  The place is excellent!  Never noticed a bank there.....

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 12:47 | 5588589 ajax
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That district of Zuerich is packed with banks, insurance companies, investments companies.

Kauflauten is also a concert hall if I'm not mistaken...

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 14:26 | 5589030 in-Credible Banker
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Yes it is.

 

I am a forty something and one night after dinner there ventured into the club for awhile.  On discovering everyone was half my age I high tailed it back to the hotel bar!!

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:43 | 5588344 e_goldstein
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Fuck the vault, HEAD TO THE TOP FLOOR.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:43 | 5588348 Hulk
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The Robbers are always in the bank, thats where they work !!!

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:46 | 5588359 alexcojones
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Hans Gruber?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 12:19 | 5588497 corsair
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Chipowski?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:50 | 5588382 Barnaby
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Somewhere Al Pacino's Swiss counterpart is chewing the scenery, howling "These GUYS are - GOOD!"

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:52 | 5588398 secretargentman
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The FED doesn't normally have to resort to actual armed robbery...

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:54 | 5588408 Kprime
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hahaha, jokes on them.   .gov already stole and spent all the gold.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 11:59 | 5588423 Ban KKiller
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18 year old black male with Jamie Dimon.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 12:02 | 5588434 mototard
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  1. Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot is a bank in Israel. The fourth largest in the country, it has around 140 branches. The bank is the largest among Israel's mortgage lenders. Wikipedia
  2. Headquarters: Ramat Gan, Israel
  3. CEO: Eldad Fresher
  4. Founded: June 6, 1923
Wed, 12/24/2014 - 12:04 | 5588438 James .T .Bond
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Must be a betrayed ex-customer of Union Banks of Satan.

Brave action.

Happy Christmas,switzhellland

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 12:04 | 5588443 shovelhead
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This must be causing some National angst.

The Swiss do not like disorder and Switzerland is anything but orderly lately.

Referendums, riots and now, bank robberies.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 12:06 | 5588447 Rectal Hydration
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That fiat ain't gonna be worth shit when they get out of prison.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 12:07 | 5588448 Wahooo
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The bank's management brought guns to work?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 12:06 | 5588454 flyonmywall
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Hans Gruber is back, obviously.

Where is the drill?

 

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 12:18 | 5588492 JustTheTTIP
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Gib uns das Gold? .. .Bitte?!

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 12:44 | 5588578 CHX
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Armed with nail guns, I suspect.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 12:49 | 5588595 chefes
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** Nüschelerstrasse in Zürich **

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 13:02 | 5588638 insanelysane
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C'mon, it's Zurich. We zip in, we pick 'em up, we zip right out again. We're not going to Moscow. It's Zurich. It's like going into Wisconsin.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 13:30 | 5588748 noben
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As a private bank, did they take Dual Citizens, who are suspected of US tax evasion?

Ah, the joys of being in a cash-rich (family) business, and having banker friends in distant places.  This Wage or Salary stuff is for the birds.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 15:41 | 5589286 I am a Man I am...
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the one crime of the year in zurich

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:29 | 5589656 Vylahkinnen
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Just read your Brecht, dumbass. You don't rob a bank. You found one. That's way smarter.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 21:00 | 5589975 astoriajoe
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Everyone keep quiet and put all your 1's and 0's in the bag.

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