Thousands of rescue workers are deployed in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia to bring the confusing flood situation under control. Criminals apparently wanted to take advantage of this chaotic situation.
Stolberg – In Stolberg near Aachen, criminals are already taking advantage of the flood situation: There were individual attempts to loot shops, said a police spokesman on Thursday.
Accordingly, in three cases witnesses reported that people were in flooded shops. Police arrested a suspect at a jewelry store.
When the officers arrived at the other crime scenes – a supermarket and a drugstore – several strangers fled. It was initially unclear whether something was stolen. A hundred of the police are now in Stolberg to protect the abandoned houses and shops from looting. dpa
