Masked men robbed and looted a renowned luxury department store in
Germany on Saturday, injuring shoppers as they stormed through the
bustling aisles amid a cloud of tear gas.
Four armed men reportedly burst in through a side door of Berlin's KaDeWe at around 10:30am local time. They sprayed a guard with tear gas, and then proceeded to shatter and ransack glass cabinets containing jewelry and expensive watches, German newspaper Deutsche Welle reported. Eleven people received medical treatment for tear gas inhalation.
Authorities launched a manhunt across the city after the bandits fled, the Associated Press reported. Video footage showed police massed outside the posh retail mecca after the incident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nqI0p9jJOeI
The 107-year-old KaDeWe — short for "Kaufhaus des Westens," or "Department Store of the West" — is a tourist destination that welcomes about 18,000 customers daily. The amenities include "luxurious beauty rooms and lounges," a gourmet oyster bar, a "tailor, hairdressers, buggy service rental," and more, according to the store's website.
Thieves have targeted the store — dubbed a "temple of consumption" by the German media — about once every decade or so, Deutsche Welle reported.
"We are forced to think of the concerned employees and customers — for whom it is always a shock," Nils Busch-Petersen, the CEO of the Berlin-Brandenburg Trade Association, told Deutche Welle.
It's unclear how much was stolen in the heist, but police told Deutsche Welle "there has been some loot."
Four armed men reportedly burst in through a side door of Berlin's KaDeWe at around 10:30am local time. They sprayed a guard with tear gas, and then proceeded to shatter and ransack glass cabinets containing jewelry and expensive watches, German newspaper Deutsche Welle reported. Eleven people received medical treatment for tear gas inhalation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nqI0p9jJOeI
The 107-year-old KaDeWe — short for "Kaufhaus des Westens," or "Department Store of the West" — is a tourist destination that welcomes about 18,000 customers daily. The amenities include "luxurious beauty rooms and lounges," a gourmet oyster bar, a "tailor, hairdressers, buggy service rental," and more, according to the store's website.
Thieves have targeted the store — dubbed a "temple of consumption" by the German media — about once every decade or so, Deutsche Welle reported.
"We are forced to think of the concerned employees and customers — for whom it is always a shock," Nils Busch-Petersen, the CEO of the Berlin-Brandenburg Trade Association, told Deutche Welle.
It's unclear how much was stolen in the heist, but police told Deutsche Welle "there has been some loot."
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