The variety of blown up ATMs in North Rhine-Westphalia continues to say no: In line with figures from the State Felony Police Workplace (LKA), there have been 9 circumstances to date this yr (as of Could eighth). On the similar time 4 years in the past there have been 76 explosive assaults.
The numbers have been falling constantly since 2022. In 2023, 54 assaults in opposition to ATMs had been counted as much as Could eighth, in 2024 there have been 16 throughout the identical interval and in 2025 there have been solely 13 circumstances. On the finish of 2025, the LKA counted 27 explosive assaults – which had been fewer general than in earlier years.
The decisive issue for the decline is more likely to be the widespread equipping of ATMs with color-adhesive cartridges, which shade the banknotes within the occasion of an explosion and thus make them unusable.
The police additionally labored with the banks to hold out a “danger evaluation” of hundreds of ATMs. Units that may very well be notably tempting for the perpetrators – for instance as a result of they’re on an escape route in direction of the motorway – had been merely dismantled.
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