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About a year after the theft of the Green Vault jewels, Dresden police and prosecutor searched several apartments in Berlin on Tuesday morning and arrested three suspects from around the clan. More than 1,600 officers are deployed in the large-scale raid.
Police said there would be significant traffic restrictions throughout the city throughout the day. The focus of the operation is in the Neukölln district.
According to information from Tagesspiegel, 1638 officials are on duty. In addition to the emergency forces from Saxony, special forces have arrived from the federal government and the states of Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.
A total of three urgent suspects were arrested. According to a spokesman, they are German citizens, according to information from Tagesspiegel from security circles, they are all members of the great German-Arab Rammo family.
The Dresden prosecutor’s office charges them with theft and arson. The defendants will be brought before an investigating judge on Tuesday.
Police searched a total of 18 objects since early morning, including 10 apartments, as well as garages and vehicles. Investigators hope the raid will help them find traces of the stolen art treasures, and evidence such as storage media, clothing and tools are also being sought. At least two police helicopters flew over Neukölln and Kreuzberg.
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Interior Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) thanked the special forces for a “professional” cooperation: “The excellent work of the Saxony and Berlin police was rewarded today. We are happy to have managed to solve an art theft.” The mission is a signal to the crime scene: “No one should believe that they can ignore this state and its rules. The rule of law is the measure of all things,” Geisel said.
Police Union (GdP) Country Head Norbert Cioma said: “Today’s large-scale operation has been prepared incredibly professionally and very meticulously.” .
In one of the most spectacular raids in decades, on November 25, 2019 in Dresden, strangers stole priceless art treasures from the famous Green Vault treasure. The perpetrators had entered the museum through a barred window. They partially cut the bars, removed the windows and frames, and penetrated the baroque treasure. There they stole diamonds and brilliant-cut diamonds worth several hundred million euros from display cases that had been destroyed with an ax.
Parallel to the theft of the gold coin at the Bode Museum
The perpetrators are said to have used a hydraulic spreader tool to break into the Green Vault. Therefore, the investigators also moved from the parallels to the theft of the 100 kilogram Big Maple Leaf gold coin, worth 3.75 million euros, from the Bode Museum in Berlin in March 2017. There were also parallels with the attack on a money transporter at Alexanderplatz 2018.
In Berlin, at least five of these devices, each worth 10,000 euros, had been stolen from the fire department since 2017. The fire brigade uses battery-operated hydraulic spreaders to open the doors of stalling cars after accidents. And precisely such a special tool, which is used by firefighters, was apparently used in the spectacular jewel theft from the Green Vault in Dresden.
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Several Neukölln companies had already been registered in mid-September. Business data and documents have been protected at various production sites where vehicles are wrapped in film. It is about the suspicion that the exterior of the getaway car used by the perpetrators for the coup was altered and later set on fire. Based on prior knowledge, the investigators assume that the contractors did not know the purpose.
In early September, the police came to search an internet café in Neukölln and an employee’s apartment there. The Soko “Epaulette” researchers found what they were looking for. Investigators assume the man was in contact with the perpetrators. It is said that he registered them SIM cards with fictitious personal data for mobile phones. Investigators had confiscated business documents, cell phones, and storage materials.
Criminal members of the extended Rammo family, or Remmo in another spelling, have already been noted with various serious crimes. The Rammos became known because relatives are said to have killed a man in Britz in 2017 (for which the accused was acquitted). Two cousins have been convicted of stealing the gold coin from the Bode Museum, one of which is now final. Earlier, a family member blew up a savings bank.
Members of the extended family have tried to invest money in the north of the trendy district in recent years. After years of investigations by the State Police of Criminal Police, in the summer of 2018 exactly 77 properties were confiscated that are attributed to the family on suspicion of money laundering.
