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Big Police Raid – How did the Remmo twins escape?
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“Don’t compare yourself to ‘Ocean’s 11’, this is not Hollywood, but pure seriousness”
The Remmo clan is now best known for their spectacular robberies. But who is behind the Remmos? Where is the family from and what crimes have they committed? The story of an extended crime family.
More than 1,000 police officers from eight federal states are on duty to arrest Green Vault jewelry theft suspects. But shortly before the raid, mistakes were said to have been made. It is not the first collapse with one of the main suspects.
SDid the two Remmo brothers escape from the police due to a breakdown? On Tuesday morning, 1,600 officials from eight federal states searched apartments and obtained evidence, mainly in Berlin-Neukölln, due to the theft of jewelry from the Green Vault.
But the main objective of the operation was to arrest five suspects. Therefore, the observation of the suspects intensified in the previous days, writes the Berlin daily “BZ”. Shortly before three in the afternoon, one of the Remmo clan suspects, Wissam R., was arrested at a traffic control. The others were not to be arrested during the raid until a few hours later, at six o’clock. Although all targeted people are under night surveillance, the police leave them alone. Some go home.
But then officials noticed an increase in contacts and cell phones were turned off. At half past four, a suspect leaves his apartment, first walks and gets into a car. Investigators follow him, but he escapes. According to “BZ” it is said that it was one of the twin brothers, and the monitors also lose sight of the other shortly after. The two brothers are still on the run.
Why was the convict at large?
Wissam R. was already on trial for the spectacular theft of the 100 kilogram Big Maple Leaf gold coin from the Bode Museum in Berlin. It appears that he broke into the Dresden Green Vault during a hiatus in the process. Ultimately, this will only be determined by trial, but numerous traces would have led to the Remmos, according to the Dresden prosecutor, for example at the crime scene and in a getaway car.
A story that doesn’t exactly show the Berlin authorities in a favorable light, as the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” writes. Wissam R. has appeared regularly in Tiergarten District Court since 2012, and there have been nine entries, mostly robberies and break-ins. The cousins he surrounded himself with were also registered, Ahmed R. had already been noticed in his youth for violent crimes and against property. Gold particles were found on Wissam R’s clothing during the investigation.
Despite everything, he was a fugitive throughout the trial, for 13 months. In November 2019, for example, he might have had a chance to go to Dresden and break into the Green Vault. Because he was saved shortly after his arrest at the end of 2017. Because of his young age and because there were no grounds for imprisonment, such as the risk of flight. However, the risk of repetition would also have been grounds for arrest. But this danger was apparently not seen. He just had to report to the police regularly.
“In between he had time for a short trip to Erlangen”, writes the “SZ”, where he had to answer in November 2019 in another process. It is said that he broke into a business in Erlangen in autumn 2018 and stole a hydraulic spreader that can be used for robberies. His DNA was found at the scene. He was sentenced for the theft. Since the verdict is not final yet, he didn’t have to go to prison here either.
Wissam R. was still able to enjoy his freedom after he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for stealing gold coins in February 2020. When the sentence finally became final in September of this year, Wissam R. was still at home. According to “SZ” of the Berlin judiciary, it takes a certain time before someone is asked to go to prison.
The search for the two twins, Abdul Majed and Mohamed Remmo, 21, continues. Officially, there was no trace of the two men until Wednesday afternoon. The Dresden public prosecutor’s office announced that there is currently no information on his whereabouts. The Dresden police had located the suspect, among other things, by evaluating the recordings of various surveillance cameras. Police had received more information about the seized getaway car, a Mercedes 500 disguised as a taxi.
