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May 16th, 2023 | #1 |
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Dresden’s Green Vault Hiest in Nov 2019
Jewellery of 'immeasurable worth' stolen in dramatic Dresden museum heist
German police say thieves on the run after ‘cultural treasures’ stolen from Green Vault The Jewel Room at the Green Vault in Dresden’s Royal Palace. Thieves in the German city of Dresden have broken into one of Europe’s largest collections of art treasures, making off with three sets of 18th-century jewellery of “immeasurable worth” in what German media has described as the biggest such theft since the second world war. The dramatic heist took place at dawn on Monday, after a fire broke out at an electrical distribution point nearby, deactivating the museum’s alarm and plunging the area into darkness. Despite the power cut, a surveillance camera filmed two men breaking into the Grünes Gewölbe (Green Vault) at Dresden’s Royal Palace. Volker Lange, the head of Dresden police, said the thieves smashed a window and cut through a fence before approaching and breaking open a display cabinet in the Grünes Gewölbe’s Jewel Room in “a targeted manner”. Officers were at the scene within minutes of being alerted to the robbery shortly before 5am local time, but the suspects had escaped. A burning car found in Dresden early on Monday may have been the getaway vehicle, police said. They have set up roadblocks on motorway approach roads around the city in an attempt to prevent the suspects from leaving. But the close proximity of the gallery to the autobahn is likely to have helped the thieves’ speedy escape, police said. German media reported the losses from the burglary could run into the high hundreds of millions of euros, but the director of Dresden’s state art collections, Marion Ackermann, said it was impossible to estimate the value of the items. “We cannot give a value because it is impossible to sell,” she said, appealing to the thieves not to break the collections into pieces. “The material value doesn’t reflect the historic meaning.” Ackermann said the stolen items included three “priceless” sets of diamonds, including brilliant-cut diamonds which belonged to an 18th-century collection of jewellery assembled by the museum’s founder. Created by Augustus the Strong, the Elector of Saxony, in 1723, the Grünes Gewölbe is one of 12 museums which make up the famous Dresden state art collections. It got its name because some rooms were decorated with malachite-green paint. One of the oldest museums in Europe, the Grünes Gewölbe holds treasures including a 63.8cm figure of a Moor studded with emeralds and a 547.71-carat sapphire gifted by Tsar Peter I of Russia. The Grüne Gewölbe (or Green Vault) has been stripped of hundreds of artefacts, worth up to €1bn The museum is now made up of two sections, one historic and a newer part. It was the historic section, which contains around three-quarters of the museum’s treasures, that was broken into on Monday. Entrance to the historic vault must be reserved in advance, and there is a strict limit on the number of daily visitors. Exhibits are arranged into nine rooms, including an ivory room, a silver gilt room and the central Hall of Treasures. Michael Kretschmer, the leader of Saxony, of which Dresden is the capital, said he was devastated by the losses. “Not only the gallery has been robbed, but also the Saxonians,” he said. “You cannot understand the history of our country, or the free state of Saxony, without the Grünes Gewölbe and the state art collections of Saxony.” Historic Grape Cups were among the treasures on display in the Green Vault, where burglars carried out a heist. The Grünes Gewölbe alone consists of 10 rooms teeming with about 3,000 items of jewellery and other masterpieces. The building was heavily damaged during the second world war but has been successfully restored, reopening to great international fanfare in 2006. It has been a tourist magnet since 1724, when it first opened to the public. The Grüne Gewölbe consists of 10 rooms with about 3,000 items of jewellery and other recognised masterpieces. One of the museum’s most famous and precious treasures, the Dresden Green Diamond, is currently on loan with other valuable pieces to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for an exhibition. Saxony’s interior minister, Roland Wöller, said: “This is a bitter day for the cultural heritage of Saxony. The thieves stole cultural treasures of immeasurable worth – that is not only the material worth but also the intangible worth to the state of Saxony, which is impossible to estimate.” Wöller said police had already set up a special team of investigators to pursue the case. “We will do everything in our power not only to bring the cultural treasures back, but to capture the perpetrators,” he said. Leading international theft experts speculated about the thieves’ motives. The Dutch “art detective” Arthur Brand, who made headlines earlier this month after uncovering a long-lost gold ring belonging to the writer Oscar Wilde, said the objects might have been stolen by people hoping to sell them, who would soon realise there was little hope of doing so. “But the second and worst scenario would be professional robbers who just want the objects for their material value, the melted down gold or silver, who would take out the diamonds and sell them separately,” he told Der Spiegel. “But as soon as the works are destroyed, they are of course lost forever.” Bernhard Pacher, manager of the art auction house Hermann Historica, told the tabloid Bild that if the objects stolen had a value of a billion euros, as initially estimated by police, “even when they are broken down and melted they can still deliver a 100-200 million euro return, which still makes it worth stealing them.” Ackermann said that security at the state collections would now undergo a thorough review after what appeared to have been a meticulously planned heist. “An incident like this naturally raises the question as to what can be improved, what can be done differently in future,” she said. “But there’s no such thing as 100% security.” The theft is the second high-profile heist in Germany in recent years, after a 100kg, 24-carat gold coin was stolen from Berlin’s Bode Museum in 2017. The Jewel Room at the Green Vault in Dresden’s Royal... 16 V 2023. Germany makes arrests over theft of giant solid-gold coin https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40579867 Web12 Jul 2017 · Last week, police released CCTV footage of suspects at a local train station. The Canadian "Big Maple Leaf" is made of 100kg (220lb) of pure 24-carat gold - which … Same family of east European gangsters done both jobs. They are in Germany thanks to Merkel. All should at least be jailed. |
May 16th, 2023 | #2 |
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German court jails five over record museum jewel heist
The brazen theft took place in November 2019 at the Green Vault museum in Dresden. A German court on Tuesday sentenced five gang members to up to six years in prison for snatching priceless 18th-century jewels from a Dresden museum in what has been dubbed the biggest art heist in modern history. The thieves made off with a haul worth more than 113 million euros ($123 million) from the Green Vault museum in 2019. Some, but not all, of the loot was recovered in exchange for four of the defendants confessing in court. The convicted men, who appeared relieved by the relatively light sentences, are members of the "Remmo clan", an extended family mostly based in Berlin and known for a web of ties to organised crime. The court in Dresden handed down three sentences ranging from just under to just over six years for armed robbery, aggravated arson and grievous bodily harm for the November 25, 2019, heist. Two of the men, who were minors at the time of the crime, received juvenile sentences of five years and four years and four months respectively. A sixth defendant was acquitted because he produced a credible alibi -- an emergency surgery at a Berlin hospital. The plea deal came in for criticism, however, with the president of the Berlin prosecutors' association, Ralph Knispel, noting that the defendants had not been required to reveal their accomplices. "The question is what message that sends" to other criminals, Knispel told public broadcaster RBB. 'Remarkable criminal drive' The trial, which began in January 2022, shed some light on the audacious heist but left key questions unanswered. Although many of the historic pieces were recovered, some are feared lost forever in what presiding judge Andreas Ziegel called an act of "remarkable criminal drive" by the thieves at "one of the oldest and richest treasure collections in the world". The loot included a sword with a diamond-encrusted hilt and a shoulder piece that contained a 49-carat Dresden white diamond. The loot included a sword with a diamond-encrusted hilt. Ziegel defended the plea deal, saying that without it "the jewels which have been classed as irreplaceable would never have returned to the Green Vault". He also said he believed the thieves' apologies to be sincere. Two of the defendants, Wissam and Mohamed Remmo, were already serving time for the daring 2017 theft of a massive gold coin from a Berlin museum. They told the court in January that the idea for the Dresden job was hatched after a younger acquaintance "came back from a field trip to the Green Vault... raving about the green diamonds on display there". The defendants, aged 24 to 29, slipped into the museum through previously damaged bars on a window, smashed a display case with an axe and grabbed 21 pieces decorated with 4,300 jewels in less than five minutes. The thieves were able to escape in a getaway car they later torched in an underground car park. Authorities long thought the haul was lost for good, with detectives scouring Europe's shadowy stolen goods markets for signs of the Saxon royal artefacts. 40 suspects still wanted But in December 2022, police recovered a "considerable portion" of the items -- valued at 60 million euros -- following "exploratory talks" with the suspects. Many of the pieces were badly damaged and some are still missing, including a brooch that belonged to Queen Amalie Auguste of Saxony. In January, four of the defendants confessed, leading to the deal for lighter sentences. A fifth said he stole tools to penetrate the building but denied taking part in the heist itself. About 40 people believed to have been involved in planning the robbery are still wanted. The trial revealed major security failings at the Green Vault, a state institution. Its director, Marius Winzeler, has said he is "optimistic" the remaining missing pieces will one day return to Dresden, given that they "cannot be legally sold". The Green Vault is one of Europe's oldest museums, founded by Augustus, Elector of Saxony, in 1723. It is part of Dresden's Royal Palace, which suffered severe damage in World War II. After being closed for decades, the Vault was restored and reopened in 2006, becoming a major tourist draw. © 2023 AFP Verdict due in spectacular German museum jewel heist Criminal Sentences must serve as a deterrent otherwise crime escalates. ALL these people must be deported. What possible benefit will they ever be to Germany or Europe? They are here because Merkel let them in to destroy us. Meet the Remmo clan - the Arab gang that has become … https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...clan-arab-gang... Web22 Nov 2020 · The Remmo Clan are just one of the so-called “Arab clans”, extended families of Middle Eastern who control much of the drugs and illegal prostitution trade in … |
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German Police Crack Down on Berlin Migrant ‘Crime Families’
German Police Crack Down on Berlin Migrant ‘Crime Families’
BERLIN (AP) – Hundreds of German police and other investigators raided more than 20 buildings in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg early Thursday in a crackdown on two feuding organized crime families, authorities said. Berlin prosecutors said on Twitter that two people were arrested in the raids targeting illegal drug and weapons trafficking. In addition, authorities were investigating bodily harm charges linked to a “clash of clans” between an Arabic and a Chechen organized crime families last November, prosecutors said. At that time, there were several violent confrontations between the two organizations. Berlin police said in addition to their own SWAT teams and other personnel, federal agents, Brandenburg police and tax officials were involved in the raids, more than 500 personnel in all. Authorities did not immediately provide further details, but the Bild newspaper reported that one of the targets was the Remmo family, which has alleged links to two recent spectacular heists. Two of the main suspects in the 2019 theft of 18th-century jewels from a Dresden museum last year are part of the family, which has ties to Beirut. Mohamed Remmo, 21, was arrested by Berlin authorities in December in connection with the Green Vault Museum theft, while his twin brother, Abdul Majed Remmo, is being sought on an international warrant.Other members of the Remmo family were convicted last year for a similarly spectacular heist, the theft of a 100-kilogram (220 pound) Canadian gold coin dubbed the “Big Maple Leaf” from Berlin´s Bode Museum in 2017. The coin, with an estimated value of 3.75 million euros ($4.45 million) has not yet been recovered and authorities think it was likely cut up into smaller pieces and sold off. Such a crackdown has been long overdue, but as the government in Germany's capital is dominated by the hard left, the police are under a range of operational restrictions that border on the unreasonable. Meanwhile, the authorities seem oblivious to the growth of "immigrant" crime families there and elsewhere, despite the increasing violence. Much of the latter is due to an influx of jihadists from the Middle East war zone, using military grade weapons and munitions smuggled in via the Balkans. Unless the German police continue their crackdowns, things stand to get much worse. Muslims form crime families to gain more money, more power and ultimate control over the Non-Muslims. This is Islam, a system of totalitarian discrimination and violence. 'things stand to get much worse'- "German Police Crack Down on Berlin Migrant ‘Crime Families’" In the years ahead we will be able to tell the young ones that we were alive to see headlines such as that. They won't believe us, as by then the leader will be: "Berlin Migrant crime families crack down on German Police." With one migrant quoted as saying: "We have told them before - this part of Germany does not belong to you anymore. If they try coming in here again then their body count will be higher next time." He was backed by new London Mayor Abdul A'bul'bul Amir who said that his own decision to ban British Police from entering inside the M25 ring road had only brought benefits to the capitol. Welcome to the world of Forced Globalist Cultural Destruction , by your OWN GOVERNMENT. German Police Crack Down on Berlin Migrant 'Crime Families' 25 V 2023. "German Police Crack Down on Berlin Migrant ‘Crime Families" - this fake news is no more than P R / Public Relations. Deport these criminals and all their kin IMMEDIATELY. Then deal with those that let them in. |
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