German court convicts five men for $100 million jewel heist in 2019
Washington Post
23-05-16 10:05
Members of the Remmo clan have been sentenced to between four years and six years in prison for a daring $108m heist in 2019 which saw a break-in at Dresden’s Royal Palace’s Green Vault museum, on of Europe’s most notorious and daring jewel heists ever. Several missing valuable pieces are still to be recovered, including a breast star of the Polish Order of the White Eagle, a jewel-encrusted sword and an ornate headpiece covered in 4,300 diamonds. The case has seen six members of the clan arrested with a further 40 believed to have been involved and still at large. The Remmo gang is believed to be part of Berlin’s clannish organised crime scene that survives often by working in family groups. The sentence meted out to them is seen as relatively lenient, particularly given what it seen as the gang’s failure to cover its tracks – an electric saw that ultimately failed to penetrate the alarm-proof display case is seen by many to have been left behind deliberately as a red herring. Reactions to the sentencing suggest it might not discourage other crime families from getting involved in such criminality.