Almost a year ago there was a theft in the Grünes Gewölbe in Dresden.
The police now searched the homes of suspects in Berlin during a raid.
In connection with the theft of jewels from the “Green Vault” in Dresden, there was a major raid in Berlin.
The raid focused on objects in the Berlin district of Neukölln.
There were arrests, according to the police, from the "Berlin clan mileu".
Update from November 17th, 10:33 am
: After the jewel theft in the "
Green Vault
" in
Dresden
, special investigators are looking for the burglars with high pressure.
At the end of
November 2019
, previously unknown people penetrated through a window into the “Green Vault” in the residential palace of the Saxon capital.
Within minutes, they stole
historic jewelery
of great value
from a display case
.
They then fled in a car that they later set on fire.
The coup attracted a lot of international attention.
Three suspects have now been arrested in Berlin.
According to a spokesman for the Dresden police, the arrested are three German nationals from the “Berlin clan milieu”.
They were on their way to Dresden, where they would be brought before a judge on Tuesday, he said in Berlin.
Berlin's Senator for the Interior, Andreas Geisel (SPD), also confirmed “references to clan crime”.
The searches and the arrests on Tuesday were a great success, which rewarded the work of the investigators in Berlin and Saxony.
At the same time, it is “another signal to the scene”.
Nobody can disregard the state and its rules.
"The rule of law is the measure of all things," said Geisel.
Spectacular diamond robbery in the Green Vault: three suspects arrested during a raid in Berlin
First report from November 17, 2020
Berlin - Last year there was a spectacular
theft
in the historical
museum collection “Grünes Gewölbe”
in
Dresden
.
Two unidentified burglars broke into the museum by force on November 25, 2019
and
stole
diamonds
and
diamonds
.
Almost a year later, the police apparently got the
suspect
on the trail.
Since Tuesday morning (November 17),
apartments
in
Berlin have been
searched
in a large-scale
raid
.
Raid in Berlin: Police searched apartments in connection with theft in the Green Vault
Bild.de initially reported on a
large-scale operation by
the Berlin police in the
Neukölln
district
.
Meanwhile, according to the
AFP
news
agency,
three suspects have been arrested
.
The police in Saxony also announced via Twitter that several objects have been searched by numerous emergency services since 6 a.m.
Since 6 a.m., numerous emergency services have been searching several properties in #Berlin under the guidance of #SokoEpaulette.
This is in connection with the break into the Green Vault in #Dresden on November 25, 2019. # Green Vault pic.twitter.com/eBlYoQzaz1
- Police Saxony (@PolizeiSachsen) November 17, 2020
According to bild.de, the public prosecutor announced on Tuesday morning that special forces from several federal states had arrested three German citizens who were urgently suspected of being committed.
The
Dresden public prosecutor
accuses them of serious
gang theft
and
arson
in two cases.
They should be brought before an investigating judge later that day.
Raid in Berlin: three suspects arrested in connection with robbery in the Green Vault
A total of more than 1,600 emergency services are said to have been involved in the investigation of 18 objects in the Neukölln district.
The police in Saxony also announced via Twitter that “today's measures will focus on the search for the stolen
art treasures
and possible
evidence
such as storage media, items of clothing and tools”.
(
jbr
)
The focus of today's measures is the search for the stolen art treasures and possible evidence, such as storage media, clothing and tools.
# GrünesGewölbe #SokoEpaulette #Dresden #Berlin pic.twitter.com/YE3V1K20ms
- Police Saxony (@PolizeiSachsen) November 17, 2020