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Special police forces: deployment in Berlin-Neukölln
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In connection with the spectacular art theft from the Green Vault in Dresden, the investigators are looking for two other suspects from the Berlin clan milieu.
In the course of a large-scale raid in Berlin, three men aged 23, 23 and 26 had already been caught in the morning.
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According to information from SPIEGEL TV, those arrested belong to the Remmo clan.
This organization, which is related to an extended Arab family, is also held responsible for other large crimes.
In February, members of the clan were convicted of the spectacular theft of a 100 kilogram gold coin from Berlin's Bode Museum.
According to SPIEGEL TV information, Wissam Remmo, who was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for stealing gold coins, was among the members who have now been arrested by the police.
The Erlangen district court had previously sentenced him to two and a half years in prison for theft.
According to SPIEGEL TV information, the other people arrested are Rabih Remmo and Bashir Remmo.
If Wissam Remmo was also involved in the break-in of the Green Vault, he would have done so during the time when the process for the gold coin in Berlin was already underway.
So far, he had not started the prison sentence that became legally effective in September 2020 for breaking into the Bode Museum.
According to information from SPIEGEL TV, the two wanted 21-year-olds also belong to the Remmo clan.
All of the accused are charged with serious gang theft and arson in two cases.
The arrested persons are to be brought before the investigating judge in the course of the day, as the Dresden public prosecutor announced.
According to the police, a total of 18 objects in the capital had been searched since the morning, including ten apartments, garages and vehicles.
According to the authorities, there are almost 1640 police officers on duty.
According to the Saxony police, the focus of the operation under the leadership of the Soko »Epaulette« is the search for »possible evidence such as storage media, clothing and tools«.
"It is also our goal to look for the stolen jewels," said a spokesman for the Dresden public prosecutor.
So far, however, no art treasures have been found.
According to the police, despite the arrests, there is little hope that the stolen objects will return to Dresden.
"You should be very lucky that you would still find it a year after the crime," said the spokesman for the Dresden police, Thomas Geithner - and added: "Hope dies last."
In one of the most spectacular break-ins of the past decades, strangers stole art treasures of inestimable value from the famous treasury of the Green Vault in Dresden in November 2019.
Within minutes they stole historical jewelery from an exhibition cabinet.
They then fled in a car that they later set on fire.
Read a reconstruction of the jewel theft here: An ax and eight minutes.
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The focus of the searches on Tuesday was on the Berlin-Neukölln district.
Due to the police operation, considerable traffic restrictions can be expected throughout the entire day in Berlin.
In the past few weeks, the investigators had repeatedly followed traces into the capital and searched several objects.
Berlin's Senator for the Interior, Andreas Geisel, spoke of a great success in solving the art theft, according to a statement.
The searches and arrests rewarded the work of the investigators in Berlin and Saxony.
At the same time it was "another signal to the scene," said the SPD politician.
“Nobody should think they can break this state and its rules.
The rule of law is the measure of all things. "
In addition to forces from Saxony, according to the police, special forces from the federal government and several states were also involved in the current raid.
Police officers from Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia supported the officers from Saxony.
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