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After the major raid in connection with the art theft in the Green Vault in Dresden, two suspects are on the run and three others have been arrested.
One of the men who were captured on Tuesday has to serve a prison sentence in Berlin for another robbery. According to information from SPIEGEL TV, it is Wissam Remmo. The now 23-year-old was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in February 2020 as a participant in the theft of a 100 kilogram gold coin on Museum Island, the juvenile sentence had been in effect since September.
The Tiergarten district court, which is responsible for the execution, has yet to ask the man to begin custody, as confirmed by a court spokeswoman.
Saved from custody
Two co-defendants in the “Big Maple Leaf” gold coin case had requested an appeal against the guilty verdict, but the 23-year-old had accepted his sentence. After his arrest in 2017, he was released from pre-trial detention on the condition that he report to the police three times a week and certify that he was doing a courier internship every 14 days. The man has always met these conditions, the court spokeswoman said.
In July 2018, at the request of the Berlin Prosecutor’s Office, the arrest warrant was revoked for reasons of proportionality, as the conclusion of the investigation was not foreseeable at that time.
The hunt is carried out internationally
The suspects in the Dresden case belong to a large family of Arab origin known to the police; According to researchers, it is the Berlin Remmo clan.
The search for the two fugitives continues. The suspects are twin brothers Abdul Majed Remmo and Mohamed Remmo, 21. They are accused of serious robbery and arson caused by gangs, as a spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office said: “The persecution is international” (Read all about the raid and the suspects here).
According to investigators, the twins are also members of the Berlin Remmo clan, which is responsible for other major crimes such as the theft of gold coins from the Bode Museum in Berlin in 2017. Three men of the clan, aged 23 and 26, were arrested on Tuesday.
All three are in preventive detention. “He has not yet commented on the accusations,” the Dresden prosecutor said. Berlin Interior Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) spoke of a warning sign for the clan’s surroundings.
Now the investigation is underway. Evidence obtained during searches in Berlin, including storage media, is evaluated. The search for the two suspects still at large continues. On Wednesday morning there was no new information on the whereabouts of the two wanted.
The Soko »Epaulette« criminalists are faced with another piece of the tedious puzzle, as a spokesman for the Dresden prosecution said. In one of the most spectacular raids in decades, on November 25, 2019, perpetrators stole jewelry of barely measurable historical-artistic value from the famous Green Vault treasure.
During Tuesday’s big operation in Berlin with more than 1,600 policemen from eight federal states, including special units of the federal government and the states of Berlin and Saxony, 20 apartments, two garages, a cafe and several cars were searched in Berlin at night . The focus was on the Neukölln district.
“The crime of the clan is not taken seriously”
District Mayor Martin Hikel (SPD) advocates for new ways to provide evidence in the fight against clan crime. “The worst signal we can give is that it is worth it to become a criminal,” the SPD politician told the German Press Agency.
Clan crime has not been taken seriously for many years, Hikel said. “That falls a bit on our feet.” Now there is a five-point plan against clan crime in Berlin. Hikel sees the arrests and searches related to the art theft in Dresden as an important sign.
The evaluation of the surveillance camera recordings had led the Saxon police to track down the suspects. Photographs taken before and during the robbery gave investigators valuable information about the perpetrators’ behavior, the prosecution said. At the crime scene, forensic technicians also obtained important evidence. Police obtained more information on the seized getaway car, a Mercedes 500 disguised as a taxi.
The Remmo clan is one of the largest in Germany and consists of 13 families in total. The Berlin police once created a family tree of the members, who originally come from an Arabic-speaking minority in southeastern Turkey.
