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Jewel room in the historic Green Vault: sensational theft in November 2019
Photo: Sebastian Kahnert / dpa
Investigators have secured evidence in connection with the theft of jewels from the historic Green Vault in Dresden.
The Dresden public prosecutor said they had searched a man's apartment and his employer's business premises, an internet café.
The search took place in Berlin.
There is a suspicion that the suspect sold the perpetrators SIM cards registered on fictitious personal data or gave them to the Internet café in Neukölln for distribution.
"We assume that he was in contact with the perpetrators," said a spokesman for the prosecutor.
The SIM cards in question were used during the preparation and during the act for agreements between the perpetrators.
It is still unclear whether the man, whose apartment has now been searched, knew the purpose.
According to the public prosecutor's office, he is therefore not considered suspect in the case of jewelery theft.
The public prosecutor's office in Berlin may be investigating other criminal offenses in connection with the sale of the SIM cards.
The investigators took business documents, cell phones and storage media, which are now being evaluated.
They hope that they will lead to the buyers of the SIM cards and that the perpetrators of the coup can be identified, said the spokesman for the Dresden public prosecutor.
It is "a first clue" to clear up the case.
On November 25, 2019, two strangers entered the museum in the residential palace through a barred window.
In the jewelery room they then punched three holes in a showcase with an ax and stole about two dozen baroque pieces of jewelry made of gold, diamonds and diamonds.
The break-in only lasted a few minutes.
When the police arrived, the thieves and the loot were gone.
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