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I’m a photo and video artist from Germany and lost over 12.000€.

I went to Amsterdam on saturday, 21st of September. Parked my car for 2h to go to the city, came back and saw that they broke into my car and took all my stuff I need for my job (List of everything gone below).

from here, this is what happened:

- i saw they broke into my car at 8pm
- called the police immediately
- was told to wait or go to the location of my airtag myself (?)
- waited 45 mins, called again
- was told to wait for the police to come again
- waited another 45 mins, called AGAIN
- police officer told me „ah yeah sorry nobody is coming to you, my colleague wasn't informed correctly"
- as i started driving i saw the location ONLY THEN suddenly changed
- tried driving after it but it changed again so i called police again
- they told me if the location isn't updating every minute they can't do ANYTHING
- location stopped at some point (the screenshot in the story before)
- around
10pm: drove there, was a really weird neighborhood, airtag said „nearby"
- called the police AGAIN and they told me again they can't go in because there's more than one apartment so they're not allowed to go in
- drove to police station to report all this shit (meanwhile my friends called with the german police that assured us they actually can go into the apartments)
- police officer told me german police is lazy and no they can't go inside, told me to drive to another police station for the report
- finally had two officers listening to the story, made the report with them for 1.5 HOURS telling every single detail
- police officer was furious that they told me to go search it myself as it's insanely dangerous and that they actually CAN go into the apartment
- still didn't go in, he just told me the report will go to the detective and they should start investigating in A FEW DAYS (by now it was 3AM)

Today (22.09.24) the police called again, finally drove there (way too late) but couldn’t let my AirTag ring, because they don’t use iPhones and I’m back in Germany. Haven’t heard back from them since..

I really need financial help since I can’t do my job without my equipment..
ANY help is highly appreciated x

Take care, Jil



List of missing stuff:
Camera Backpack DB 32L
Sony a7iv
Sigma 14-24mm f2.8
Sigma 24-70mm f2.8
Rode Video Mic Pro Plus
Rode Stereo Mic
4x Sony Akku FZ100
4x Lexar 128gb SD Card
1x Angelbird 512gb SD Card
Kodak Mini 2 Photo Printer
Lens Filter Set
2x Fujifilm x100 Battery
Apple AirPods 3
MacBook Pro 16 M1 Max
MacBook Charger
Gimbal DJI RS4 Pro
+ some smaller equipment pieces
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    Jil Kuhl
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    Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

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