Police divers continue to search for missing jewels from the Green Vault in Berlin
On Boxing Day in Neukölln, police divers continued to search for pieces from the spectacular jewel theft in the Green Vault in Dresden – in a section of a shipping canal that, according to Tagesspiegel information, is near the homes of two suspects.
On Sunday, 20 police divers from Saxony and Berlin as well as the federal police searched about 150 meters of the canal on the Kiehlufer, and according to unconfirmed information, all sorts of scrap metal was found. The Dresden public prosecutor’s office, which is conducting the proceedings, did not give details of the deployment.
The perpetrators could have hidden the loot in the canal, packaged appropriately, and one of the six suspects, in consultation with his defense attorney and with the prospect of a penalty discount, may have indicated the location.
Only a few days before Christmas, numerous parts from the jewel collection stolen in Berlin in 2019 had appeared. Saxon officials secured 31 pieces from the theft after consultation with a law firm, drove the former exhibits under heavy guard to Dresden, where they were forensically examined.
The judiciary in Dresden said: There were talks between the “defense and the public prosecutor’s office, taking into account the court about a possible procedural agreement” and the return of “existing booty”.
Jewels show water damage
The works of art from the Green Vault, which had been hidden until then and then reappeared, apparently showed water damage three years after the crime. It is unclear whether and to what extent the accused actually agree with the court on a penalty discount in the process. The trial continues on January 10th.
Six men, 22 to 28 years old and from the German-Arab Remmo clan are accused of gang theft, arson and particularly serious arson before a juvenile chamber of the Dresden Regional Court. The state treasury of Saxony stolen from the Green Vault in the Residenzschloss in November 2019 had an insured value of 114 million euros.
Hundreds of Remmos live in Berlin. Not all belong directly to the family, and not all are conspicuous by crimes. But around 200 of them are on record, say investigators, and are related to each other.
One of the Remmos accused in Dresden was previously convicted of breaking into a company in Erlangen that manufactures special spreading devices for the fire brigade. The man was also present in Berlin’s Bode Museum in 2017 when a 100-kilogram gold coin was stolen.