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After the big raid in Berlin, the Dresden prosecution is looking for two members of the clan. Like the three men arrested Tuesday, they are said to have been involved in the spectacular Green Vault jewelry theft a year ago. “The persecution is international,” a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office said Tuesday afternoon in Dresden.
Police moved into the raid in Berlin on Tuesday with around 1,600 first responders, including numerous special units from various federal states. All of the suspects come from a well-known German-Arab extended family, the Remmo clan, which is also called the Rammo clan in another spelling.
Three suspected clan members, two 23 and one 26, were arrested. According to a police spokesman, they are German citizens. There is also an arrest warrant for urgent suspicions against two other members of the clans, they are 21 years old. But emergency services did not find them during the raid. The Dresden prosecution published a search call with photos of the suspects on Tuesday afternoon.
Dresden police said a possible getaway car of one of the men was found late Tuesday. It’s a newer gray Renault Megane with Berlin license plates. The vehicle had also been publicly registered.
The indictment: serious gang robbery and arson
The Dresden prosecutor’s office charges the five suspects with theft and arson. The three detainees 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.
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In one of the most spectacular raids in decades, strangers stole art treasures from the famous Green Vault hoard in Dresden on November 25, 2019. 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.
Soko “Epaulette” investigators found the clan members through fingerprints at the crime scene and security camera recordings. They could be identified through the images. They could also be assigned a vehicle that is said to have been used to prepare for the day.
Remmos probably used an Audi as an escape vehicle
After the crime, police released a surveillance camera image of the perpetrators’ first getaway vehicle, which was parked and set on fire in an underground parking lot shortly after the robbery. It shows a shiny Audi A6 with a dark roof.
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The perpetrators are said to have used a hydraulic spreader tool to break into the Green Vault. Therefore, the traces led to the surroundings of the Berlin clan shortly after the crime. In Berlin, at least five of these special devices, each worth 10,000 euros, had been stolen from the fire department since 2017.
Battery-powered hydraulic spreaders are used by the fire department to open doors of cars that get stuck after accidents. And exactly such a special tool, which is used by firefighters, was apparently used to steal jewelry in Dresden.
One of the suspected clan members arrested Tuesday was convicted in February of stealing the Big Maple Leaf gold coin from the Bode Museum. Initially, the 23-year-old had appealed. The district court had sentenced him and his cousin to four and a half years in prison for joint robbery. At the end of September, he withdrew the appeal, making the sentence enforceable.
In addition, the man was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in Erlangen at the end of 2019. He had stolen spreading tools from a specialized company, tools that had been used when they entered the Green Vault.
