Diamond robbery in the Green Vault: Arrest in Berlin - meeting with friends is suspect's undoing

Almost a year ago there was a spectacular robbery in the Grünes Gewölbe in Dresden.

Now a suspect could be arrested.

• In connection with the spectacular robbery from the

  Green Vault

  in

  Dresden

  , there was

  a

  major raid

  in

  Berlin

  .

• The

  raid

  focused on

  objects in the Berlin district of

  Neukölln

  .

• The

  police

  could

  three suspects

  arrested, after two more will gefahndet.

Update from December 14th, 10:17 pm:

One of the two fugitive suspects in the case of the

jewel theft in Dresden's Green Vault

was arrested.

According to information from the

picture

, it is

Mohamed Remmo (21)

.

He was apparently arrested by special forces on Monday evening in an apartment building on Jahnstrasse in

Neukölln

.

There he probably wanted to meet a close acquaintance and so came under the sights of the civil investigators.

However, his brother

Abdul Majed

is still at large.

Update from November 18, 12:18 p.m.:

The

search

for the

two other suspects of

the jewel theft in

Dresden's Green Vault

becomes the case for the

ZDF program

Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved

.

The police are hoping for clues this Wednesday evening as to where the wanted twin brothers

Abdul Majed

and

Mohamed Remmo

are.

You are suspected of having broken into the historical part of the Dresden treasury on November 25, 2019 together with other members of a Berlin-based family clan and stealing invaluable jewels.

Jewel robbery in Dresden: Police are looking for Remmo brothers https://t.co/yngayOLOWY pic.twitter.com/2rBqjxS24l

- Berliner Morgenpost (@morgenpost) November 17, 2020

Major raid after diamond robbery in the Green Vault: Two suspects continue to flee

Update November 18, 10:02:

After the

big raid

on Tuesday in connection with the collapse in the

Green Vault

in Dresden are

two suspects

still on the

run

.

There is still no new information about the whereabouts of the 21-year-old twin brothers, said a police spokesman on Wednesday morning in

Dresden

.

On Tuesday evening, investigators reported finding a possible

escape vehicle

.

Diamond theft in the Green Vault: Trail leads abroad

Update from November 17, 4.40 p.m.:

The

police are also

looking

for the

two other suspects

abroad

.

"The manhunt is international," said a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office on Tuesday afternoon in

Dresden

.

One of the wanted suspects may be

on the run

with a

car

.

The police said they had evidence on Tuesday that the man

could be traveling in

a

gray Renault Megane

with the registration number B-HB 306.

She asks for further

evidence

of the vehicle.

+++ Update +++

It is possible that one of the two wanted suspects is fleeing with a vehicle.

License plate, model and further information can be found here: https://t.co/DV7JODkATR#GrünesGewölbe #SokoEpaulette #Berlin #Dresden

- Police Saxony (@PolizeiSachsen) November 17, 2020

Even after the

arrests

in connection with the theft of jewels in

Dresden

, the public prosecutor wants

to press ahead with

the

investigation

.

Storage technology and other items of clothing had been secured, said the spokesman for the public prosecutor in Dresden.

"The evaluation will of course take some time again." The public prosecutor wanted to

bring charges promptly

, but it was also very clear: "Thoroughness comes before speed." The

investigations

are

not concluded

today

.

Diamond robbery in the Green Vault: details of the escape known

Update from November 17, 2:14 p.m.:

After their robbery, the

burglars from the

Dresden Green Vault

raced

with a powerful car over the nearby

motorway

to

Berlin

.

The vehicle was

camouflaged

in

taxi optics

and was ready for the escape, as a spokesman for the Dresden public prosecutor said on Tuesday.

This is reported by the

picture

.

The thieves had

fled the scene in

another car

and

drove a

few kilometers through

Dresden

.

They then parked it in

an

underground car park

on the outskirts and set it on fire before switching to the “taxi”.

The perpetrators wanted to destroy their traces.

Diamond robbery in the Green Vault: suspects before a judge

In connection with the

diamond robbery

from the

Dresden Green Vault

in November 2019,

five arrest warrants

for aggravated gang theft and arson in two cases have been issued.

Three of the arrest warrants were carried out in the

large-scale raid

on Tuesday morning in

Berlin-Neukölln

, as the Dresden Public Prosecutor

Jürgen Schmidt

told

the

dpa

.

An investigating judge of the

District Court of Dresden

is currently deciding whether the three arrested men in

custody

come.

"That continues," said a spokesman for the Dresden public prosecutor at noon.

The

two other

suspects

are also searched for using an arrest warrant.

The men who have already been arrested, two 23-year-olds and one 26-year-old, are

German citizens

and belong to a

large family of Arab

origin known

to the

police

- according to the investigators, it is the Berlin

Remmo clan

.

+

A suspect (male) in the case of the art theft in the Green Vault is led by police into the building of the Higher Regional Court in Dresden.

© picture alliance / Robert Michael / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa

Diamond robbery in the Green Vault: wanted for two other suspects

Update from November 17, 1:25 p.m.:

In connection with the 

spectacular theft

 from the 

Green Vault

 in Dresden, the police are now looking for 

two more suspects

 from the Berlin clan milieu.

The Dresden public prosecutor announced on Tuesday that they were accused of serious gang theft and arson.

The young men are twin brothers,

Abdul Majed

and

Mohamed Remmo

.

The public prosecutor published a

wanted picture of

the two suspects

on Tuesday

.

Robbery in the Green Vault: Investigators have little hope of finding the art treasures

So

far, none of the stolen

art treasures

have been found

during the

raid

.

The officers were mostly looking 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

.

The investigators, however, dampened

hopes

that the stolen objects would ever return to

Dresden

.

"You would have to be very lucky that you would still find them a year after the crime," said

Thomas Geithner

, spokesman for the

Dresden police

.

But he emphasized: "Hope dies last." The arrest of the

suspects

is the real success.

Berlin's Senator for the Interior,

Andreas Geisel, also

called the arrests a warning sign to the

Berlin clan milieu

.

“Nobody should believe that they can override this state and its rules.

The rule of law is the measure of all things.

He alone enforces order.

He's doing it more resolutely and smarter than some criminals believe, ”said Geisel.

Spectacular diamond robbery in the Green Vault: three suspects arrested

First report from November 17th:

Dresden - The spectacular

art theft

in the

Grünes Gewölbe

in

Dresden

may be about to be investigated.

Almost a year after the crime, the

police

arrested

three

suspects

in

Berlin

.

There are three men from the

Berlin clan milieu

aged 23, 23 and 26 years, as the Dresden public prosecutor announced on Tuesday.

They are to be

presented to the judge

in

Dresden

that

afternoon

.

Police spokesman Thomas Geithner from the #Dresden police department summarizes the current events in a short video statement after the executive measures this morning in #Berlin.

# GrünesVölbe #SokoEpaulette pic.twitter.com/vqrMu4pUbP

- Police Saxony (@PolizeiSachsen) November 17, 2020

During the large-scale

raid *

on Tuesday with

1640 police officers

from eight federal states, including special forces from the federal government and the states of

Berlin

and

Saxony

,

18 objects in Berlin were searched

in the morning

.

These included ten apartments as well as garages and vehicles.

The focus of the searches was the

Neukölln

district

.

In that case there had already been several missions in

Berlin

.

In September, the focus was on production facilities; this may have been about the getaway car.

Previously, the special commission "Epaulette" found evidence in a Neukölln Internet café and an apartment.

The break-in of the Dresden treasury, the

Grünes Gewölbe

, caused a sensation around the world in November last year.

At that time, two men had

looted

several

pieces

 of

baroque jewelry

made of gold, diamonds and brilliant-cut diamonds

of hardly measurable value.

So far there has been no

hot

lead to either the

perpetrators

or the

jewels

.

Only the escape vehicle was found completely burned out in an underground car park in Dresden a few hours after the coup.

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