Police break up European festival crime ring
In a nearly seven-month-long investigation, police in Saxony uncovered an organised network of phone and wallet thieves that targeted Wacken, Tomorrowland and more
News By | 24 August 2016
Police in Germany have broken up a crime ring they believe to be responsible for a spate of thefts at concerts and music festivals across Europe this summer.
Saxon state police were alerted to its existence following the “audacious” theft of 25 wallets and almost 100 mobile phones at a Slipknot show at the Leipziger Messe (15,000-cap.) in Leipzig on 28 January. Following one of the suspects to his home in the Schönefeld neighbourhood, they found stashed in a bush a backpack containing around…
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