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Cash-in-transit heists are one of the most dramatic illustrations of a crime wave that’s shocked even the most hardened South Africans, with murder at a 20-year high.
In August 2018, Bulwane announced that his BMW X5 was used during a cash-in-transit heist in Bloemfontein. He said that he had handed his car to a panel beater for repairs following an accident in May of the same year. [8] He laid charges against the panel beater but police questioned his possible link to the heist. [9]
South Africa has exceptionally high rates of murder, gender-based violence, robbery and violent conflict. [103] A survey for the period 1990–2000 compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ranked South Africa second for assault and murder (by all means) per capita and first for rapes per capita in a data set of 60 countries. [ 104 ]
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Protea Coin cash compound, Robertsville, western Johannesburg. At around 17:00, the Special Task Force confronted a group of 20 heavily armed cash-in-transit robbers in a foiled robbery. After the robbers were cornered and opened fire on the members of the Task Force, they returned fire killing seven and wounding nine of the robbers.
The daring heist took place at Drents Museum in Assen during the early hours of Saturday morning, according to Dutch police, who said they received a report of an explosion at 3:45 a.m. local time.
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