DATTELN/GELSENKIRCHEN (dpa-AFX) – Almost three months after the spectacular break-in at a Sparkasse branch in Gelsenkirchen, individual customers have received compensation from their insurance companies. According to his own information, lawyer Daniel Kuhlmann from Datteln was able to claim a total of around 250,000 euros for eleven clients. WDR had previously reported on it.
Background: The affected savings bank customers had taken out so-called external insurance with their household contents insurance. “These clients had also made the inventory lists exactly according to our specifications, were there from the beginning and were able to provide complete documentation of everything,” said Kuhlmann in a Facebook post from his law firm.
Model lawsuits are running at the same time
At the same time, the lawyer filed model lawsuits against the savings bank. He accuses her of neglecting safety precautions and is therefore demanding full liability. Theoretically, the bank will only reimburse proven locker losses up to a value of 10,300 euros.
However, numerous savings bank customers had reported through lawyers and the police that they had stored significantly larger sums in the lockers than cash or valuables.
At the end of December, previously unknown perpetrators gained access to the bank via a parking garage and drilled a large hole in a wall to get into the vault. Almost all 3,250 customer lockers at the Sparkasse branch were broken into./ola/DP/jha
