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Green Vault: The process of stealing jewels in Dresden begins

2022-01-28T10:22:45.736Z


It's about jewelry worth 113 million euros: Six men are said to have broken into the Dresden Residenzschloss in 2019 - two of them were accused of another spectacular theft at the time of the crime.


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The display case in the Green Vault in Dresden that was destroyed during the break-in: To this day, there is no trace of the loot

Photo: Sebastian Kahnert / dpa

The process of stealing jewels from the historic Green Vault began in Dresden on Friday.

Six alleged perpetrators between 23 and 28 years old are charged.

The allegations are: aggravated gang theft, arson and particularly aggravated arson.

The regional court negotiates in the room of the Dresden Higher Regional Court created for terrorism and extremism proceedings.

The public prosecutor accuses the young men of being responsible for the break-in into the Dresden Residenzschloss on November 25, 2019.

They are said to have stolen 21 jeweled pieces of jewelery with a total value of more than 113 million euros and left more than one million euros in property damage.

According to the indictment, the alleged perpetrators were armed.

They had set fire to a power box and a getaway car in the underground car park of a residential building near the castle.

To this day there is no trace of the loot.

Two of the alleged perpetrators - at the time of the crime accused in the process of gold coin stolen in Berlin

On the day of the crime, two men entered the residential palace in the old town through a prepared window early in the morning, punched holes in a display case with an ax and removed pieces of jewelery from the 17th and 18th centuries. Investigators are convinced that the crime was committed by criminal members of the Berlin Remmo clan, who were also targeted for crimes such as the theft of the "Big Maple Leaf" gold coin from Berlin's Bode Museum in 2017.

The suspects, who were gradually arrested in Berlin, are related to each other – they are brothers and cousins.

Two of the alleged perpetrators had already been charged in the gold coin trial at the Berlin Regional Court while the theft was taking place in the Green Vault.

They were at large at the time of the crime.

In the meantime, they are each serving a youth sentence of several years, to which they were sentenced in February 2020.

The other four have been in custody for months.

The public prosecutor's office is certain that they have found everyone directly involved in the crime.

According to the public prosecutor's office, the accused have not yet commented on the allegations.

14 lawyers, main file with 65 volumes

50 days of negotiations have been scheduled until the end of October.

A sequel is possible.

The main file in the case comprises 65 volumes, and the number of participants in the process also makes it a special process: 14 defense attorneys are present – ​​lawyers from Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin, Hanover and Hamburg – three public prosecutors, representatives of youth court services and dozens of witnesses.

According to the public prosecutor, DNA traces from cars and from the crime scene, videos, data and witness statements support the determined course of the crime.

Meanwhile, the work of the special commission »Epaulette«, named after one of the booty items, continues.

There is reasonable initial suspicion against a further 40 suspects, including four security guards and four possible helpers of the perpetrators.

It is unclear whether the thieves sold the loot.

The general director of the Dresden State Art Collections, Marion Ackermann, considers the stolen pieces of jewelery to be unsaleable.

"The pieces have been made known worldwide," Ackermann told the radio station Bayern 2. It's of little use to bring the stolen pieces of jewelery onto the market individually.

"Then there are just individual stones, diamonds, but they don't have the value that one could achieve with today's types of cut," said Ackermann.

She hopes the process will draw even more attention to the jewelry, making it even harder to sell.

has/dpa

Source: spiegel

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