Three Men Robbed During Sale of the Remaining Computers turns the planned resale of stolen school equipment into a second loss: Lukas, Julius, and Sanchez hand over their bags and watch the supposed buyer drive away without paying. The theft began with the confidence that getting the computers out of school would be the hard part; the attempted sale shows how easily their own inexperience can make them targets. The crucial failure is not a violent struggle but a misplaced handover, followed by the realization that the person who took the goods was not the contact they had been told to meet.

From Break-In to Resale

The computers were taken from the school during a night-time break-in. Julius initially produced a lockpick and claimed he could open doors, cars, and cellars, but Sanchez threw down a large key ring, which Julius recognized as belonging to their school. On the night of the burglary, Sanchez proposed unlocking the gate and entering by the front, past the basketball courts. Julius also revealed that he had brought a blank-firing gun, a risk that made an already serious break-in more dangerous if they were caught.

At the side entrance near the seventh-year classrooms, Lukas worried about a possible night watch, cleaners, motion sensors, or cameras. The group entered anyway. In the storage room, the computers were not hidden away: Sanchez spotted unopened cartons on high shelves, with roughly forty computers and monitors in view. Lukas climbed onto a step stool and passed the equipment down while Sanchez and Julius stacked it on the floor. That discovery had made the theft seem almost effortless; the later sale exposed the gap between moving valuable goods and knowing how to sell them safely.

A Sale Arranged Through Marco

An earlier attempt to sell computers at a shop had failed. The shopkeeper recognized the danger in three students arriving with brand-new equipment shortly after a school computer theft and challenged their story. When the group tried to claim they were twenty, the lie did not persuade him. The failed encounter established that the computers were recognizable as suspicious goods and that a conventional shop was unlikely to buy them.

Marco then offered a different route. He said that boys he knew through an acquaintance would buy everything in one transaction, and asked Lukas to tell him exactly what kinds of computers and monitors they had and how many. The meeting was to take place at night in Moabit. Marco said he could not attend because he had to work, but promised to arrange the deal in advance: the three were to speak only with Abdul, take the money first, hand over the goods afterward, and leave quickly. His warning that they should keep quiet and make no trouble, especially Julius, gave the plan the air of a precise procedure, even though the sellers would have to carry it out alone.

The Handover at Beusselstraße

At the meeting place, behind a bridge in the parking lot of a hardware store on Beusselstraße, two cars arrived. A man got out and asked them to give him the bags so he could check what was inside. Lukas and his friends handed them over. The man put the bags in a car, got in beside them, and the cars drove away. The sequence was so quick that the three did not manage to stop him. Julius shook his head as Lukas later recounted the moment, but the missed opportunity had already become the defining fact: they had surrendered the goods before receiving payment, contrary to Marco’s instructions.

When Lukas told Marco what had happened, Marco’s surprise turned into anger. He demanded to know how the three could have been robbed after he had explained what to do, then asked Lukas to describe the man. Lukas could offer only a broad description: black hair, a short back-and-sides haircut, a chain, and an age perhaps around nineteen or twenty. Marco immediately identified the mismatch. The Abdul he meant had long hair, and he had told Lukas to speak only to that person. The distinction did not reveal who the impostor was or how the robbers knew about the meeting, but it showed that the person who took the bags did not match the named contact.

Aftermath and Significance

Lukas believed the timing could not be coincidence: the men had appeared at the arranged place when the computers were there. But the account does not establish who disclosed the plan or whether Marco’s contacts were involved. Marco said he would make calls and sort it out. Lukas, after closing his eyes briefly, tried to stop him, asking him not to do anything. Marco instead shouted that he would not let himself be made a fool of and objected to people robbing younger boys. His response shifts the immediate stakes from recovering the stolen equipment to the prospect of retaliation.

The episode reverses the boys’ earlier sense that crime offered quick money in place of ordinary work. Their break-in had depended on access, darkness, and finding the computers; the resale depended on an unfamiliar intermediary and a meeting they could not verify. They had a clear instruction to take the money before handing over the bags, yet at the crucial moment they gave the goods to a stranger who claimed he needed to inspect them. The theft therefore makes their vulnerability visible without resolving the larger uncertainty: the computers are gone, the promised buyer remains unidentified, and Marco’s next move is left unsettled.