Oliver Bödeker had no weapon and no plan when he stormed into the Sparkasse and yelled: “Hands up! This is a bank robbery!” A moment later he was outside again, going shopping with his mother. “Luckily, everyone in the neighborhood knows me,” he says. “Even in the savings bank, they know that I’m sick.” His mother adds: “But the customers were a bit shocked.”

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