The builder’s yellow and black mechanical digger was seen outstretching its long arm and tearing down the apartment balconies one by one before he escaped the scene by car
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A builder smashed up a block of flats with his digger because the owner owed him more than £4 million.
Footage on YouTube shows the contractor driving his machine into the three-storey block after an angry row with the developer, who he claimed owed him £4.2million.
His yellow and black mechanical digger could be seen outstretching its long arm and tearing down the apartment balconies.
The damage reportedly happened at 7.30pm on Wednesday in Blumberg, South Germany.
The area around the apartments was sealed off by police after fears the heavy machinery may have damaged the building’s gas containers.
The builder fled the scene in his car after destroying the apartment block with his wrecking machine.
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German newspaper Schwarzwuelder Bote reported he turned himself in to police after the spree.
Reports say there was no one inside the building or any reports of casualties
The video shows him pulling down each apartment balcony one by one before he had a mechanical problem with his machine and abandoned the demolition of the balconies
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The building has been left in a state of partial demolition with balcony pieces and metal framing strewn on the ground.
It was later cordoned off by police.
Locals in the upmarket development looked astonished by what had happened to the new-build apartments.
An estimate of the damage caused will cost around £425,000 to repair according to German police.
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The builder is said too have been owed £4.2 million by the furious property developer owed who had done work on the luxury apartments.
Eyewitnesses told the German newspaper the destruction stopped because the digger’s hydraulic hose broke.
