Dusseldorf - Increased commodity prices in past months Metallklau in a big way. In demand are mainly copper and other nonferrous metals
And the brazen theft also makes before Rheinbahn not stop: Five of their employees from the railway construction have gone under the thieves. From operating farms they stole copper, scrap metal and steel tires. The cops identified.
Police spokesman Mark Niesczery confirmed: "We have received an appropriate display of the Rhine Railway, which we are currently editing."
Rheinbahn spokesman Georg Schumacher makes it concrete: "There are five employees, for which we have issued the discharge papers or working on. Anyone who steals our depots, which violates possibly also to our other property. "
EXPRESS learned: The five-track construction men came under suspicion because of scrap, which was to be sold had vanished. The thieves could only insiders. The metals were allegedly sold to scrap dealers. Rheinbahn spokesman estimated the damage at a "four-digit sum.
Economy has Metallklau: Tempting are mainly the time to be achieved copper prices. Cost in 2003 on the London Metal Exchange, 1,500 euros per ton, the price is now increased to nearly 6,000 euros.
This prospect of profit has meant that even bands of copper signal cables to remove and train routes or plunder transformer houses. The metal thieves also steal the gutters or cemetery lamps.
The Thieving Rheinbahn Quintet incidentally is also suspected to have used official cars for private purposes, and each afternoon, "ausgestempelt" if one of them even made the morning closing time.
Rheinbahn spokesman Georg Schumacher: "Even when our review under investigation."
