Jewel thieves from Dresden (D) must go to jail

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Three and a half years after the spectacular theft of jewels from the historic Green Vault in the East German city of Dresden, five young men from the Berlin Remmo clan have been sentenced to prison.

The Dresden Regional Court found her guilty on Tuesday of particularly serious arson in combination with dangerous bodily injury, theft with weapons, damage to property and deliberate arson. The punishment is based on a “deal”. A suspect (25) has been acquitted, he has an alibi.

The criminal court imposed prison sentences of six years and three months, five years and ten months and six years and two months for three men (26, 27 and 29) from the well-known large family of Arab descent in Germany. One of the twin brothers was sentenced to four years and four months in juvenile detention.

113.6 million francs damage

The four suspects must pay for the damage to the lock and the display case. The other man (24) is also seen by the judges as an accomplice, he was sentenced to six years in prison – including a previous conviction. Like some days of the trial, the verdict was accompanied by a lot of media attention.

The art theft from Saxony’s famous Treasury Museum on November 25, 2019 is considered one of the most spectacular in Germany. The perpetrators stole 21 jewelry made of diamonds and brilliants worth a total of 113.6 million francs and caused more than one million francs in damage when they set fire to a power distribution box in the old town and a getaway car in the underground park of a residential building to cover their tracks.

The state of Saxony had demanded compensation in court of almost 86.6 million francs – both for the returned, partially damaged and missing jewelery and for repairs such as the destroyed display cases and the museum building.

Most of the jewels are back

Months later, the suspects were gradually apprehended in raids in Berlin. Five are in prison, one of them and a 25-year-old are also serving their juvenile sentences for stealing the gold coin from Berlin’s Bode Museum in 2017. At the beginning of January, an agreement was reached between the defense, the prosecutor’s office and the court, after a short by Christmas 2022 most of the stolen jewels had been returned.

Four suspects had agreed to the controversial “deal”, who then stated through their lawyers that they were part of the crime. Another defendant also confessed, but only that he had purchased items, such as the axes with which holes had been punched in the museum display case. The defense had sought a reduced sentence for them for providing information, pointing out that the museum’s lack of security “at least aided” the execution of the crime. (SDA)

Source: Blick