BERLIN, July 3: Bank robbers disguised as football World Cup fanatics slipped past guards in Germany, decked out in wigs, scarves and hats in the national side’s colours, police said on Monday.

The three purported supporters, who blended in thanks to nationwide euphoria about Germany’s winning streak at the tournament, stormed a bank in the southern Berlin district of Marienfelde covered from head to toe in black, red and gold souvenirs.

One was even wrapped in the German flag.

Brandishing handguns and an automatic weapon and threatening tellers, they collected the cash stored in a safe in less than a minute and ran.

The ‘fans’ are still at large, a police spokesman said.

—AFP