Raid: Hamburg police uncover huge bike theft

While the local police are busy qualifying cyclists as suicidal hooligans, the Hamburg police are busy putting a stop to bicycle thieves. Around 1500 stolen bicycles were seized in the Rothenburgsort district - and the pictures are astonishing.

The Hamburg police had been investigating for months, and recently the raid took place: the Hamburg police seized around 1500 bicycles in warehouses in the Rothenburgsort district. The frame numbers are checked on the spot and have already been matched, as the theft reports and frame numbers matched on site. The police suspect structured gangs in this large-scale theft, similar to what is common in residential burglaries.

According to the images published by the Hamburg police via Twitter, the majority of the stolen goods are low-priced everyday bikes. It is not clear from the information provided by the Hamburg police whether high-priced bikes were also discovered during the raid.