Theft of the "Treasury of Dresden": in Germany, the "Remmo clan" in the accused box
A breakage like this one, we make a film of it.How could burglars were able to enter the Palais des Princes de Saxe on November 25, 2019, when the director had declared, at the time of the opening of the museum in 2006, that the "Treasury of Dresden"would "be" both protected and Fort Knox ", the United States gold reserve?
The Germans expect answers to these questions at the trial which opened in Dresden on Friday against six defendants, including two minors at the time of the facts.The lens carried away had not only a market value, estimated at more than 113 million euros.He also represented the history of Saxony, that of Augustus the Fort, prince-elector and king of Poland in the 18th century.This treasure had survived the destruction of the city during the seven -year war but also to the terrible bombings of the Second World War."It's more than a flight.This is an attack on our cultural identity, "said the regional Minister of the Interior at the time.
Helds and sawn bars
On November 25, 2019, at 5 am, burglars penetrated without any difficulty in this museum.A few days before, they had sawed the window bars, then picked up the pieces so that it goes unnoticed.Their action took place in absolute darkness: they had burned the electric transformer which fueled the lanterns of the park.Finally, surveillance cameras outside were broken down.This is why the guards have been slow to ring the alarm.
The burglars therefore had time to penetrate the room housing the collection of the new green vault (Neues Grünes Gewölbe).They broke with great blows, with incredible violence, the main showcase, carrying with them the jewelry pieces of the Dresden court: 21 jewelry composed of 4,300 diamonds.The operation only lasted eight minutes!
It is the biggest blow ever made by the "Remmo clan", known to police services for decades.Among the defendants, Wissam and Ahmed Remmo, who have already been convicted of another spectacular breakage in 2017: the flight of a gold piece of more than 100 kilos in 2017 at the prestigious Bode museum, one of the best monitored in theGerman capital.
Coming from Kurdish families in Lebanon who arrived in Germany forty years ago, they are best known in Berlin for their spectacular actions.The clan is behind the "Kadewe breakage" in 2014.The remmo had entered masked in broad daylight in the luxury department store in Berlin by breaking jewelry windows with ax in front of dumbfounded customers.An operation that had lasted seventy-nine seconds.
Power demonstration
"These are feats of arms that give prestige in the environment," analyzes Ralph Ghadban, Lebanese political scientist and Islamologist.According to Die Zeit magazine, one of the authors of the Dresden flight would have offered to go up a notch in the spectacular: a breakage at the Louvre museum."This is the result of the integration policy of the 80s.We let people welcome without integration prospects.Prohibited from work, some have accepted community offers.The mafia structures have gradually set up, "explains Thomas Bliesener, director of the Hanover Criminology Institute.
In 2020, the Germans had been dismayed by the demonstration of this clan during the burial of a famous offender in Berlin.More than 2,000 people had come from all over Germany to celebrate the funeral of Nidal Rabih, a multi -wrist Lebanese, shot in a public garden for never elucidated reasons.The whole Arab underworld was there, supervised by 150 police officers.A few days later, we discovered a large fresco painted in his honor on the wall of the Neukölln district, the fief of the Remmo clan.The town hall had a lot of trouble erasing the memorial to the glory of a hero of organized crime.The painters were afraid of reprisals.
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Berlin mobilizes 1,600 police officers to catch the burglars of the "Treasury of Dresden"
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17 nov. 2020Since 2020, the State has followed the Italian antimafia methods: protection of contractual agents who put fines to large displacements of mafia parked in double line, systematic descents in places of dirty money recycling, seized of real estate or cars… In November 2020, the police deployed more than 1,600 police officers in the Neukölln district of Berlin, to arrest three young people suspected of having participated in the Dresden breakage (they were confused by DNA traces found on the bars ofmuseum)."An army against the clans!"had titled that day Bild-Zeitung, the popular German daily.Diamonds and jewels, on the other hand, have never been found.
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