Professional non-ferrous metal thieves stole almost eight tons of copper cable from Deutsche Bahn in the Rostock region and wanted to make money in Berlin. As a spokesman for the federal police said on Wednesday, the cables stolen in Rostock over the weekend turned up at a scrap dealer in Berlin on Monday. A witness observed how a man unloaded the load with three drums with copper cable and other pieces of cable there.
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When the alarmed Berlin police checked, the scrap dealer said that the supplier wanted to sell the material to the scrap dealer. For this purpose, he presented a copy of an identity document. However, the operator of the scrap trade refused and asked for an original ID card. The “unloader” then drove off, but did not come back.