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Four masked men wielding machetes and handguns burst into a high-stakes poker tournament in Berlin and made off with 242,000 euros in cash earlier this month. Now one suspect has turned himself in to police.
The robbers appeared to be amateurs
A 21-year old man has surrendered to police in connection with a robbery at an international poker tournament in Berlin.
2 suspects nabbed in Berlin poker heist. All three suspects already are known to German police in connection with previous suspected offenses including robbery and bodily harm. The European Poker Tour stop in Berlin came to a halt earlier today because of an armed robbery attempt. Reports from the scene are saying that six armed men with masks entered the Grand Hyatt Hotel at about 2 p.m. Unconfirmed repo. Poker Players Stunned by EPT Berlin Robbery. By Brett Collson - Mar 7th, 2010. As reported yesterday, up to six armed gunmen robbed the Grand Hyatt Hotel’s casino during the PokerStars.
Police on Wednesday confirmed a report in German daily Bild saying that the suspect, accompanied by his lawyer, turned himself in at a Berlin police station.
The search for his three accomplices continues.
Earlier this month four masked men captured headlines across Germany after they burst into the Grand Hyatt hotel on Potsdamer Platz during a high-stakes poker tournament, wielding machetes and handguns. The robbers made off with 242,000 euros ($331,000) in cash and escaped in a black Mercedes.
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Police have been looking for the four men ever since. Last week the police arrested a suspect in the poker tournament robbery but later released him, after his alibi was confirmed.
Shortly after the incident, the head of the German police union described the thieves as 'amateurs' and expressed confidence that they would be caught soon. A video of the heist suggested the robbers were not professionals, as one of them was not wearing gloves.
Around 950 people were participating in the poker tournament, which offered 4.7 million euros in prize money, including a one-million-euro jackpot for the winner.
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Police detain two more suspects involved in Berlin poker tournament robbery on Saturday after they stole prize money 242,000 euros.
The final suspects are in custory after raiding major European poker torunament
Two weeks after a spectacular daylight robbery at a poker tournament in Berlin police have arrested all four suspects who had made off with nearly a quarter of a million euros.
The 19- and 20-year-old pair were detained separately around noon and late Saturday at Berlin's main Tegel airport. Both men had informed police through their lawyers that they would be traveling back to Germany from Istanbul and Beirut. Authorities had issued an international arrest warrants for the alleged robbers.
The German leg of the European Poker Tour attracted around 950 participants including German tennis legend Boris Becker who had been eliminated from the competition a day before the March 6 heist.
On Monday, a 21-year-old German national surrendered to police, naming his three accomplices. A 20-year-old suspect was later arrested by police on a routine patrol two days later.
The four masked men, of Turkish and Arabic origins, burst into Grand Hyatt hotel near Berlin's central Potsdamer Platz threatening security personnel and hotel workers with machetes and handguns. The scenes were captured on security surveillance cameras.
A security guard grabbed one of assailant's bag with half a million euros of prize money, preventing the robbers getting away with even more of the one million jackpot.
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