Olpe - Odd Pet theft in the Sauerland: criminals stole the entire population from a fish pond.
2500 rainbow trout in the value of 40,000 € are gone.
The thieves came between 10 und 15 clock and acted apparently intentionally. They took advantage of that the owner of the pond at the time just was not in his Angel Park.
Wolfgang Weier (46) for EXPRESS: "In this pond I had the biggest fish: salmon trout. They are averaging 65 centimeters tall and heavy six pounds. "
The total value of the prey is around 40,000 euros. "In the other four ponds that I have, they have left the fish. There they are smaller and not so valuable. "
Matthias Giese Olpener by the police: "It had to happen quickly suggests some evidence that the thieves have fished the pond with a net."
Further assumption of the investigators: "They must be pulled up directly to the water body with a truck. It was no easy task for them. Finally, the captured fish weighing nearly nine tons. Corresponding transport they had with them with you. So it was a long-planned action. "
The thieves departed only a single trout. The owner Wolfgang Weier sat in one of the other ponds.
Hope to see his fish ever, he has not: "I can not imagine that I will ever see which of my fish. So many hardships survived intended only few of them. For two years I have that facility, so much time and money I have invested and now everything is gone. "
