Dresden jewel theft

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During the Dresden jewel theft on November 25, 2019, art objects and 21 pieces of jewelery with a total of 4,300 diamonds with an insured value of at least 113.8 million euros were stolen from the historic green vault of the Dresden Residential Palace.

overview

On the early Monday morning of November 25, 2019, the historic Green Vault of the Dresden Residential Palace was broken into . Investigators assume at least seven people were involved in the burglary. Within minutes, they stole eleven complete and about a dozen pieces of precious jewelry with diamonds and brilliants from a display case in the jewelry room. The Dresden police department has set up a special commission called "Epaulette". In agreement with the Dresden public prosecutor's office, the police have offered a reward of 500,000 euros for information that leads to the investigation of the criminal offense and to the investigation or apprehension of the perpetrators or the finding of the stolen goods.

  • Police cordon - and museum display

  • Police cordon - with police tape

  • Three of the heavily barred windows of the Green Vault on the ground floor of the Dresden Residential Palace

  • Cordoned off crime scene on the evening of the day of the crime

  • Cordoned off crime scene on the evening of the day of the crime

  • Window grille in which the bars have been severed, with the grille protection subsequently attached

Stolen jewelry

Diamond Rose Set : Order of the Polish Order of the White Eagle

Eleven objects, parts of two other pieces and several diamond-studded coat buttons were stolen.

Of Queens' Jewels :

  • a diamond-studded aigrette for sun-shaped hair
  • Parts of a diamond necklace belonging to Queen Amalie Auguste
  • a large breast bow
  • Part of a muff hook

From the diamond rose set :

From the diamond set :

The course of events identified so far

Ground plan of the historic Green Vault: Hall of Treasures (6), Coat of Arms Room (7), Jewel Room (8)

Shortly before 5 a.m., a power box in the catacombs of the Dresden level house under the Augustus Bridge was deliberately set on fire by a burning cooking pot filled with petrol and diesel, causing the lanterns around the theater square to fail.

Eight struts of a wrought -iron window grille on the historic Green Vault were severed. According to investigators, this happened days before the burglary. The perpetrators first used adhesive material to reinsert the triangle that had been cut out. Prepared in this way, the perpetrators were able to enter the museum more quickly on the night of the burglary, according to the investigators. During the break-in, the perpetrators pushed a corner window of the treasure vault made of safety glass out of its anchorage. Two of the perpetrators climbed a ladder into the valuables hall . From there, in the dark, using flashlights as a source of light, they went purposefully through the coat of arms room to the jewel room and hacked open a display case with an ax, as later shown on surveillance camera images. From this they stole parts of three sets from the 18th century; This affects the rose - cut diamond set , the set of brilliants and the jewels of the queens . They then sprayed fire extinguishing powder to eliminate any traces. The amount of damage was difficult to quantify, since objects of this quality are rarely offered in the art trade, but the non-material damage is immense due to the uniqueness of the pieces. The insured value of the stolen goods is at least 113.8 million euros.

According to the Dresden public prosecutor's office, the suspects were carrying a loaded revolver and a self-loading pistol with a silencer and 7.65 mm Browning cartridge ammunition .

Two security guards observed the crime on screens, but were not allowed to intervene personally for security reasons, only informing the police. The search was not limited to the urban area of ​​Dresden. The police in Görlitz and Chemnitz and in the neighboring federal states were also turned on. On the morning of the break-in, the burnt-out getaway car, a 2017 deregistered Audi A6 Avant , was discovered in an underground car park on Kötzschenbroder Strasse in the Mickten district of Dresden ( Pieschen district ). Investigators later found the sawn-out window grille and the firearms in the remains of the car. Three other cars were hit by the fire in the underground car park and a total of 61 cars were damaged.

Investigation, prosecution and trial

Immediately after the theft, investigations were carried out into four security guards, one of whom was provisionally arrested. He was accused of having supported the perpetrators by handing them "documents about the premises of the Green Vault and about the security systems". He was released after a search of his home found no suspicious evidence.

In March 2020, investigators published an identikit of a suspect for the first time. This shows a 25-year-old man who is said to have picked up the getaway car in Magdeburg.

At the beginning of September 2020, Saxon and Berlin authorities searched an internet café in the Neukölln district of Berlin and a private apartment. The suspicion was directed against a man who was not a suspect himself and who is said to have sold SIM cards registered in fictitious names that had been used by the perpetrators in the context of the jewel theft. Several pieces of evidence were seized. DNA traces that can be assigned to four members of the Remmo clan were secured during the investigative work at the Dresden Residenzschloss .

On November 17, 2020, a total of 18-20 properties were searched by 1,638 police officers in a raid led by Soko "Epaulette", including apartments, shops and garages in Neukölln, Schöneberg, Kreuzberg, Treptow, Reinickendorf and Charlottenburg. The Berlin police arrested three suspects from the Remmo clan, who are accused of serious gang theft and arson. In connection with the investigation into the Dresden jewel theft, a pair of twin brothers from the clan were also put out for investigation. In December 2020 and May 2021 respectively, both twin brothers were finally caught in Berlin.

On March 11, 2021, the police and the public prosecutor's office in Dresden published recordings from the day before the crime, which are said to show the suspected helpers of the perpetrators. The people are suspected of having spied out the later crime scene. There is an allegation of aiding and abetting aggravated gang theft.

On August 19, 2021, Ahmed Remmo was arrested as the sixth and last suspect in connection with investigations into the Dresden jewel theft. Ahmed Remmo had already been sentenced to four years in prison in 2020 for burglary in the Bode Museum . However, he appealed and thus remained at large. The submitted appeal was dismissed by the Federal Court of Justice in July 2021. With his arrest in Berlin, his prison sentence of several years also began.

In September 2021, the Dresden public prosecutor brought charges against the six suspects from the Remmo clan . The authority accuses the accused, all of whom have German citizenship , of aggravated gang theft , arson and particularly aggravated arson. January 28, 2022 was set as the start of the trial, which will take place before the Dresden Regional Court . 49 days of negotiations are initially scheduled until the end of October 2022.

whereabouts

In the case of the Big Maple Leaf theft in Berlin 's Bode Museum , the gold piece was dismembered and sold individually, according to investigators. The destruction of evidence that took place with the destruction of the 100-kilogram gold coin gives rise to the suspicion that something similar happened to the stolen pieces of jewellery. So the brooches and pieces of jewelry could all have been dismantled, dismembered and sold as individual diamonds: “If objects are dismantled, they can enter the economic cycle. This would obliterate the traces of the perpetrators.” The state chairman of the Bund Deutscher Kriminalommissarin Peter Guld believes that the thieves have certain illegal sales markets and infrastructure for processing the jewels: “I am afraid that only the material value was important here and the objects, if in general, appear again in individual parts.” Willi Korte, an art market detective, assumes that this is “not an art theft, but a jewel theft” and that the “treasures are irretrievably lost”.

reports

  • The jewel coup – burglary of the Dresden treasury. Exactly - the story. Reportage, 30:07 min. A film by Adina Rieckmann, Heike Römer-Menschel, Ina Klempnow. MDR television . First broadcast in Germany: December 18, 2019 ( Online on YouTube).
  • The Remmos and the jewel robbery. Reportage, 17:07 min. A film by Claas Meyer-Heuer. mirror TV . German first broadcast: November 24, 2020 ( Online on YouTube).
  • Clans on the prowl: Breaking into the Green Vault. Report, 8:25 min. Spiegel TV. German first broadcast: October 20, 2021 ( Online on YouTube).

web links

Commons : Dresden Jewel Theft  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

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