The first shopping Saturday in Upper Austria promised a big appetite and the ATMs were certainly full. So a trio blew up two ATMs in Linz’s Industriezeile and made customers happy shopping too late.
At around 5:30 a.m., alarm sirens went off one after the other when the ATM in the foyer of a supermarket chain exploded. “We currently assume at least three perpetrators who had filled gas or a liquid with a hose and ignited it,” said police manager Florian Oberauer on the spot against “Krone”.
Car without license plate
An unlicensed car approached the alerted police officers at high speed, but got lost in the darkness after driving through an intersection even with a red light.
Both ATMs were completely destroyed in the attack, but the cash registers remained intact. The designers had learned from several previous blasts and made them safer.
The blast also had a direct impact on many customers who wanted to shop as early as 8am. They had to wait or move to another store, securing evidence lasted until 8:45 am, only then was it unlocked again.
Source: Krone
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