Three and a half years after the spectacular theft of jewels from the historic Green Vault in Dresden, five young men from Berlin’s infamous Remmo clan have been sentenced to prison. The Dresden Regional Court found her guilty on Tuesday of particularly serious arson in combination with dangerous bodily injury, theft with weapons, damage to property and deliberate arson.
The punishment is based on a “deal”. A 25-year-old was acquitted, he has an alibi. The ICC handed down prison sentences of six years and three months, five years and ten months and six years and two months to three men from the well-known extended Arab family, now aged 26, 27 and 29. One of the twin brothers was sentenced to four years and four months in juvenile detention. The four suspects must pay for the damage to the lock and the display case. The judges also see the other 24-year-old as an accomplice, who was sentenced to six years of juvenile detention – including a previous conviction.
Spectacular theft of millions
The art theft from Saxony’s famous Treasury Museum on November 25, 2019 is considered one of the most spectacular in Germany. The perpetrators stole 21 jewels of diamonds and brilliants worth a total of 116.8 million euros and caused more than one million euros in damage when they set fire to a power distribution box in the old town and a getaway car in the underground park of a residential building to cover their tracks. The Free State had demanded compensation of almost 89 million euros in court – for the returned, partially damaged and missing jewelery and for repairs, for example to the destroyed display cases and the museum building.
Months later, the suspects were gradually apprehended in raids in Berlin. Five are in prison, one of them and a 25-year-old are also serving their juvenile sentences for stealing the gold coin from Berlin’s Bode Museum in 2017. At the beginning of January, an agreement was reached between the defense, the prosecutor’s office and the court, after a short by Christmas 2022 most of the stolen jewels had been returned.
Agreement is controversial
Four suspects had agreed to the controversial “deal”, who then stated through their lawyers that they were part of the crime. Another defendant also confessed, but only that he had purchased items, such as the axes with which holes had been punched in the museum display case. For them, the defense had demanded a reduced sentence for providing information, pointing out that the museum’s lack of security “in any case aided” the execution of the crime.
Source: Krone
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