Police chase after armed robbery of German supermarket ends in Nijmegen crash
Two Dutch men robbed a supermarket in Germany and were arrested in Nijmegen after their getaway car crashed into bushes during a police chase that crossed the border, de Gelderlander reports. The suspects are a 27-year-old man from Utrecht and a 24-year-old man from Amersfoort.
German police received a report around 7:45 p.m. of an armed robbery at a supermarket in Nieukerk in the municipality of Kerken, near the Dutch border. An armed robber stole a significant amount of money and fled in a car with an accomplice.
Officers ordered the suspects to stop, but the pair ignored every signal. German police pursued them as they drove via the A57 highway back into the Netherlands.
The chase ended in Nijmegen when the driver made a steering error, and the car crashed into bushes. Dutch police arrested the two men at the scene with help from German colleagues.
The German public prosecutor's office requested and received a European arrest warrant before filing a request to extradite the two men to Germany.
