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Searching for traces at the Green Vault in Dresden (archive image)
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About a year and nine months after the spectacular jewel theft from the Green Vault in Dresden, the investigators caught a sixth suspect.
As announced by the public prosecutor and the police in the Saxon capital, the 23-year-old was arrested in an apartment in Berlin.
He is also said to have been directly involved in the nightly museum break-in.
According to investigators, all suspects who are suspected to be directly involved in the crime have now been identified and identified by the authorities.
Four suspects were caught at the end of 2020, and a fifth in May this year.
In addition, several suspects are being investigated for aiding and abetting, for example because they are said to have spied on the museum in the run-up to the break-in in November 2019.
At that time, the perpetrators had penetrated through a window into the green vault in the residential palace of the Saxon capital.
Within a few minutes they stole historical jewelery from the 18th century of great value from a display case.
They then fled in a car that they later set on fire.
The coup also attracted considerable international attention.
Suspects come from the clan environment
A special commission of the Saxon police has been investigating since then, the jewels have not yet been found.
The suspects in the case come from the criminal so-called clan milieu of the capital.
All six accused were caught in Berlin.
The investigations would
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due to the scope and complexity of the matter
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said the police and the public prosecutor.
The suspect caught in the morning was to be brought to Dresden on Thursday and brought before a judge.
The Green Vault has been accessible since 1724 and consists of nine exhibition rooms.
It belongs to the so-called state art collections in Dresden.
The investigators are convinced that the spectacular break-in was due to a well-known large family of Arab origin in Berlin, the Remmo clan.
He is also held responsible for crimes such as stealing a large gold coin from the Berlin Bode Museum in 2017.
bam / AFP / dpa