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Spectacular pre-Enlightenment Dresden art heist: the road leads to a Berlin clan
The biggest art theft in decades is about to be investigated. The trail leads to the Arab clans. Dresden’s art treasures stolen in 2019 are likely gone.
Raid on Berlin: the trail of the art theft in Dresden leads to an Arab clan.
It was one of the most spectacular art robberies in decades that occurred on November 25 last year in Dresden. Treasures of unimaginable value were stolen from the world famous Green Vault treasure.
The perpetrators had entered the museum through a barred window around five in the morning, penetrated the baroque treasure built by the Elector Augustus the Strong (1670-1733) and destroyed display cases with an ax. Your loot: diamonds, brilliant-cut diamonds, pearls from the Friedrich August I jewelery set. Value: Several million euros.
This art theft can now be cleared up. More than 1,600 officials from different federal states searched 18 objects in the Berlin districts of Neukölln, Kreuzberg and Charlottenburg on Tuesday, and three suspects were arrested.
It is said that the great family of Berlin is behind this
According to police, the suspects are German nationals, all said to be members of the notorious Berlin extended family Remmo, an influential German-Arab clan. Clan member Wissam Remmo is among the prisoners. The 23-year-old has been a target of the police for years.
He was recently sentenced to four and a half years in prison for gross robbery in February this year. Together with his accomplices, Wissam Remmo is responsible for a millionaire robbery of the Bode Museum in Berlin in 2017. At that time, young members of the clan stole the 100 kilogram “Big Maple Leaf” gold coin worth 3.75 million euros from the Berlin-Mitte museum.
The loot has disappeared; it probably melted shortly after the theft and sale of the gold. Shortly after the Dresden art theft at Grünes Gewölbe, suspicions fell on the Berlin Remmo clan; the Berlin and Dresden cases showed several parallels. But the researchers lacked evidence.
“Many see Germany as prey”
The missing piece of the puzzle for the perpetrators’ transmission was now provided by DNA traces, which could only now be secured in a burned-out getaway vehicle using new forensic technology. The three detainees were transferred to Dresden early yesterday morning, where they will be brought before a judge.
“We are happy to have managed to solve an art theft,” said Berlin Interior Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD). No one should believe that they “can ignore this state and its rules,” he added.
However, it is questionable whether the Arab clans, which control the underworld in the metropolises of North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin in particular, are impressed by such police actions. “Many see Germany as their prey, which can be snatched away at will,” Falko Liecke, deputy district mayor of the Neukölln district, which is particularly marked by clan crime, said in an interview with our newspaper some time ago.
The authorities assume that there are 13 large families “relevant to authority” with up to 10,000 members in the capital. You get rich through extortion, drug trafficking, pimping and robbery. In late 2018, Berlin politics launched a five-point plan to combat clan structures. A “little puncture” policy is followed with periodic raids.
People laugh at the state
In addition, investigators can more easily confiscate the assets of extended families if there is a suspicion that they have been financed with “dirty” money. In the summer of 2018, the Berlin judiciary confiscated 77 properties belonging to the Remmo clan. Liecke: “People drive a BMW, which most of them can never afford, but they get unemployment benefits and laugh at our state.” For a long time, the authorities ignored it, that’s over now.
Perhaps the more aggressive approach taken by the authorities against the clans is gradually taking effect. Experts wonder whether extended families are slowly running out of money, due to increased pressure to search, but also because less money can be made during the corona pandemic from extortion of protection money, prostitution and trafficking. of drugs. In the summer there were two risky robberies on money carriers in Berlin, the police suspect that the Arab clans are behind the events.
The raids could indicate that clans are in financial difficulty. Clans regularly occupy the courts of Berlin. Representatives of another influential large Berlin family are currently on trial. Abou-Chaker-Clan argues in a Berlin court with rapper Anis Ferchichi, known as Bushido, over large amounts of money.
Artwork not for sale
It is still unclear where the art objects stolen from the Green Vault are. Historic diamond and diamond ensembles are unlikely to reappear intact. Art objects were practically impossible to sell for authors on the international art market.
Art insurer Stephan Zilkens said shortly after the ZDF robbery: “Thieves have only one chance: they will destroy your loot. That means: sharpen the stones again so that the old cut is no longer recognizable. Only then will they be able to sell them on the worldwide network of jewelers. “
