In a robbery that attracted a lot of attention, thieves stole a total of 113 million euros worth of diamonds and other valuables from the Green Vault Museum in Dresden in November 2019.
Today, the German court has handed down the verdicts in the museum robbery that received a lot of media attention.
Thieves stole a total of 113 million euros worth of diamonds and other valuables from the Green Vault Museum in Dresden in November 2019.
Among the spoils were immeasurably valuable 18th-century jewelry, a historical sword set with diamonds, and the well-known 49-carat white diamond from Dresden.
The thieves broke into the museum through a window whose bars were damaged. They were there for five minutes and had a total of 4,300 gems stolen during that time.
The thieves fled the scene in a getaway car, which they later set on fire.
According to the under-30 thieves, the idea for the robbery came from an acquaintance of theirs who visited the museum as part of a school class trip.
The sentence was handed down to a total of six men who belong to the criminal organization called Remmo’s clan. The longest sentence was six years in prison.
The sixth defendant was acquitted after it was discovered that he was being treated in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Berlin at the time of the incident. The court found this a credible alibi.
The thieves’ defense lawyer asked for short sentences for the men on the grounds that they had assisted in returning loot to a museum founded in 1723.
However, many of the looted items were badly damaged and some, such as a brooch belonging to Queen Amalie Auguste, are still missing.