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Armed Robber Flees After Failed Attempt To Rob Of Zurich Bank
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.
BREAKING: Armed robbery at bank in Zurich, Switzerland, Robbers currently barricaded inside the bank, unknown if there are hostages.
— Breaking News (@NewsOnTheMin) December 24, 2014
MORE PHOTOS: scene currently in Zurich, Switzerland after a robbery at the Mizrahi bank. pic.twitter.com/hIMzQwuLk3
— Breaking News (@NewsOnTheMin) December 24, 2014
BREAKING PHOTO: Scene out side bank in Zurich Switzerland, possible hostage, after bank robbery. pic.twitter.com/INIfHQyfVB
— Breaking News (@NewsOnTheMin) December 24, 2014
Pictures of the scene currently in Zurich, Switzerland after a robbery at the Mizrahi bank (pic by R Zefi) pic.twitter.com/i0eKBZIhxb
— News_Executive (@News_Executive) December 24, 2014
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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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.
The referendum failed. The gold is still in NYC, idiots.
There should be an ETF for bank robberies. Maybe i should create a kickstarter thingy
Probably trying to make a withdrawal.
Luckily the gold is not there.
Has he made a demand to have his ISIS flag delivered yet? He forgot it again.
thought google maps was forbidden in germany...
fuckin germans, you can't trust a single one of them.
I was thinking something like "stress-test" ...
G.F.: "Probably trying to make a withdrawal."
no - a deposit !
The robbers are soon to find that the vault was already empty.
Was the robbers name Corzine?
Where are the barricades and police tape for ZIRP and NIRP? That's bank robbery of the highest order.
banks having been stealing from Humanity for 1,000's of yrs.......
No American accounts were harmed.
Luddites bitchez.....
but but...everyone in Switzerland has guns.
This is unpossible!
is this iranian bank ?
Jewish
Oy vey...
Where's the gold? Where's all the gold??? There's no freakin gold!
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...
:)
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.
The real bank robbers are the Swiss traitors who enforced a peg to the Euro, and who rigged the Swiss gold vote.
http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zuerich/stadt/Mann-verschanzt-sich-in-Bankge...
They are going to remove the gold in the body bags of the former hostages.
it will be an empty vault with a used roach fogger in the middle of the floor
Damn! I've eaten at Kaufleuten before. The place is excellent! Never noticed a bank there.....
That district of Zuerich is packed with banks, insurance companies, investments companies.
Kauflauten is also a concert hall if I'm not mistaken...
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!!
Fuck the vault, HEAD TO THE TOP FLOOR.
The Robbers are always in the bank, thats where they work !!!
Hans Gruber?
Chipowski?
Somewhere Al Pacino's Swiss counterpart is chewing the scenery, howling "These GUYS are - GOOD!"
The FED doesn't normally have to resort to actual armed robbery...
hahaha, jokes on them. .gov already stole and spent all the gold.
18 year old black male with Jamie Dimon.
Must be a betrayed ex-customer of Union Banks of Satan.
Brave action.
Happy Christmas,switzhellland
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.
That fiat ain't gonna be worth shit when they get out of prison.
The bank's management brought guns to work?
Hans Gruber is back, obviously.
Where is the drill?
Gib uns das Gold? .. .Bitte?!
Armed with nail guns, I suspect.
** Nüschelerstrasse in Zürich **
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.
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.
the one crime of the year in zurich
Just read your Brecht, dumbass. You don't rob a bank. You found one. That's way smarter.
Everyone keep quiet and put all your 1's and 0's in the bag.