The police are checking relevant information from Berlin, writes the Berliner Morgenpost
Of the 1,100 or so references from home and abroad that have been checked, the decisive one has not yet been. According to the public prosecutor’s office, a lot of information continues to be received, which – like the more than 700 traces of three crime scenes – is now being evaluated. “It’s a puzzle,” said spokesman Jürgen Schmidt.
In the early morning of November 25th, two strangers broke into the famous treasury museum of the 18th century on the ground floor of the Residenzschloss. They had cut through a window grille, pried out the window, hooked holes in the showcase with the most splendid pieces with an ax in the jewel room and grabbed them. The coup, which also made international headlines, lasted only a few minutes. When the police arrived, the thieves and the loot were gone.
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The museum remains closed “until further notice”, as a spokesman for the State Art Collections (SKD) says. Coordination on the security concept and the resulting measures with the state building authority and the state criminal investigation office were still ongoing. In addition, the pieces left behind by the perpetrators in the affected showcase have to be painstakingly restored. The burglars had sprayed them with extinguishing powder to smear their DNA.
“We have two goals: to get the treasure back and to identify the perpetrators,” emphasize the police and the public prosecutor. The hotline is manned throughout the holidays – and there is still a response to publications by the authorities on the case. Also abroad. According to the police spokesman, an Asian man who had visited the museum at the time sent his ID “to rule out any suspicion”.
Soko is also in contact with its Berlin colleagues to reconcile a connection to the theft of the 100 kilo gold coin from the Bode Museum in Berlin in 2017. He is attributed to criminal members of an Arab clan in the capital. “The parallels to the robbery in the KaDeWe and the break-in into the Bode Museum are easy to see, you don’t have to be a criminalist for that,” said Berlin’s police chief Barbara Slowik. Connections are still speculation. The Berlin LKA has a nationally and internationally recognized expert for the phenomenon of art crime.
The Dresden authorities do not make any statements about the content of their investigations, but in view of a total of four perpetrators – two drove the escape car that was later set on fire – they assume a gang. The police spokesman did not say whether the reward of 500,000 euros had already had consequences or whether a private detective from northern Germany announced an offer last week. “The offer surprised us.” One would have liked to have contact with the man. “The aim is not to buy back the jewelry.”
The anonymous art patron from German-speaking countries wants to pay the perpetrators 1.3 million euros if they hand over the loot undamaged. According to the police, this does not affect the work of the 40-strong Soko. She is still ambitious. “There is no comparable case here,” said the police spokesman. The investigations, which repeatedly asked new questions and only facts counted, were a matter of weeks, months, “if not years”.
The SKD is primarily concerned that the stolen works of art return to their place at some point, as spokesman Stephan Adam explains. “We continue to hope that we can get them back.” Art market detective Willi Korte would consider it “a miracle”. In view of their actions, he assumes that the perpetrators are after the jewels and already had contacts with sales.community service examples If the jewelry is still intact, it needs an incentive in the tens of millions. “The reward is ridiculous because there is a risk of being caught at the handover.”
Are museums facing an increased risk situation? After the theft in Dresden, cultural politicians want to better protect art treasures. The looted Green Vault remains closed for the time being.
The Dresden Residenzschloss reopened on Wednesday for the first time after the jewels were stolen from the Green Vault. The rush of visitors was limited: “It is less than normal after the regular closing day,” said an employee at the cash desk in the Kleiner Schlosshof. The Green Vault is still closed.
Two days after the break-in, the investigators are still missing a concrete lead to the perpetrators. There is no new state of affairs, said a police spokesman. The day before, the police had confirmed that two fires immediately before and after the crime were linked to the break-in. To date, 91 reports from the population have been received on the case, it said. Images and videos relating to the crime can also be passed on to the police on a portal.
It was almost like Mission Impossible
The director of the Green Vault, Dirk Syndram, spoke in an interview with the “Sächsische Zeitung” on details of the security in the treasury museum. “Our security system was checked four years ago with the result: everything is fine,” he said. “It was almost like Mission Impossible, which they did.” Syndram was surprised at how quickly the glass in the showcase could be destroyed. “What the supplier of the safety glass promised us did not keep.” It is assumed that you have to hit it with an ax for a quarter of an hour before it can be damaged.
Forensic technicians are still at work in the baroque treasury of the Saxon electors and kings to secure traces. Only art experts from the state art collections are allowed into the jewel room. From the point of view of the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, the break-in marks a new threat to the security of museums. “I see an increased risk situation for museums here,” said Parzinger of the German press agency.
“We should set up a small task force”
That is why “investigative authorities such as the Federal Criminal Police Office, State Criminal Police Office and museum security experts should get together and advise on how to respond”. Parzinger calls for concrete steps: “We should set up a small task force that thinks about exactly because of this very specific new risk situation.”
Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters (CDU) also wants to convene experts. “Our museums store art treasures that make up the cultural identity of our country and whose value runs into billions,” she told the Düsseldorf “Rheinische Post”. “That is why we have to deal with the question of how museums can protect their objects against such brutal action in the future and at the same time remain accessible to the public in the usual way at the security conference.” She wants to advance the topic together with the German Museum Association.
Are museums facing a new challenge?
Parzinger, whose foundation supported by the federal and state governments with more than 20 museums, collections, libraries, institutes and archives is one of the world’s largest cultural institutions, sees museums facing a new challenge. “Apparently some groups or organizations here are really after the material.” It’s not about stealing a munch, a Picasso or any other famous work of art that is easy to identify.
“Now it is obviously a matter of the material value. In a barbaric manner, such as the Saxon treasury. The danger is very high that the individual treasures will then be dismantled, the diamonds and other precious stones detached and possibly cut so that one does not recognize that they are old pieces and they are being resold. “
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The perpetrators are ready “to destroy art of the highest symbolic value as in Dresden because of the material value,” said Parzinger. “That is a new dimension, including the criminal energy behind it.”
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The head of the foundation sees parallels to the spectacular theft of a gold coin in Berlin. In March 2017, the 100 kilogram “Big Maple Leaf” with a gold value of just under 3.75 million euros at the time was stolen. As in Dresden, “it must have been with the gold coin, which was not so artistically valuable. But it was 100 kilos of gold that were apparently chopped up and melted down.”
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Berlin / Dresden (dpa) – According to a newspaper report, the spectacular jewel theft from the Green Vault in Dresden could be related to clans of Arab origin in Berlin. The police are checking relevant information from Berlin, writes the “Berliner Morgenpost”.
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Jürgen Schmidt from the responsible public prosecutor’s office in Dresden told the German Press Agency that the special commission was in contact with the Berlin colleagues in order to compare possible parallels to the theft of the 100 kilo gold coin from the Bode Museum in Berlin in 2017. The Berlin police referred to the Dresden investigators.
Since the deed at the end of November, the Dresden police have received 802 reports from home and abroad. 24 of them were received after the ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY … unsolved” on Wednesday evening, as a police spokesman said. In it, moderator Rudi Cerne had asked to help clarify the spectacular break-in. The booty has a high material value, the art-historical value is inestimable.
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According to the “Berliner Morgenpost”, the perpetrators are said to have used a hydraulic spreading tool, as was the case with crimes in Berlin. The “Epaulette” special commission of the Dresden police asked police authorities all over Germany whether there were any known burglaries where such a tool was stolen or used. The 40-strong team of investigators, named after one of the stolen pieces of jewelry, is looking for a total of four perpetrators. A reward of 500,000 euros is offered.
With these battery-operated hydraulic spreaders, the fire brigade opens car doors that are jammed after accidents. Since 2017, at least five devices (hydraulic spreader “Lukas SC 358 E 2″) worth 10,000 euros each have been stolen from Berlin fire stations and fire engines. In addition, a well-known clan member is said to have recently been convicted of breaking into the manufacturer of the spreading devices in Bavaria.
In an attack on a money transporter in Berlin in September 2018, the perpetrators used a hydraulic spreader to break open the doors of the transporter. Some men with ties to clans are currently on trial for this reason. In the case of burglaries in banks, perpetrators are said to have broken into safe deposit boxes with hydraulic spreaders.
The Dresden public prosecutor’s spokesman Schmidt said: “With a look at the destroyed window grille, we will not make any statements about the possible instrument of the crime. This is knowledge of the perpetrator.” That will not be announced in the ongoing investigation.
On the night of November 25th, two masked burglars partially cut through a grille in front of a window in the museum, removed the window and its frame and penetrated the baroque treasury. There they had smashed a showcase with an ax. After a few minutes they were able to flee with a car with diamonds and diamonds.
In addition to the museum burglary target and the possible use of a hydraulic spreader, there is a third parallel to the actions of criminal clan members in Berlin. The smashing of the safety glass showcase with brutal ax blows is reminiscent of a robbery on the Berlin luxury department store KaDeWe in 2014. Back then, too, the masked perpetrators destroyed showcases with an ax in a short time, gathered jewelry and watches and fled with a waiting car. Several young men from large families of Arab origin were convicted.
We are now also looking for witnesses who took photos around the Green Vault in October and November, on which suspects may be seen spying on the objects. “It is assumed that the act was planned well in advance and the perpetrators were photographed in advance,” said the ZDF broadcast on Wednesday.
In the meantime, the police also published a picture of the perpetrators’ first escape vehicle, which was parked and set on fire in an underground car park shortly after the break-in. The picture comes from a surveillance camera. It shows a bright Audi A6 with a dark roof on its way to the city center.
Finally the World Cup again – the fans are in full swing, Brazil parties everywhere. Reason enough for wanted.de to take a closer look at the national schnapps. Most people know cachaça as the basis for a caipirinha, but it also tastes pure – if you pour yourself the right brands.
Cachaça – Samba in a glass
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Cachaça (pronounced: Kaschassa) is a close relative of rum – although the latter is made from molasses, whereas cachaça is made from the freshly squeezed juice of sugar cane. Rum is double-distilled, Brazilian schnapps is single – so other flavors stay on the fire here. In addition, the climatic conditions in Cuba and Jamaica are different – it is more humid here, while in Brazil the climate of the South American continent has an impact and the raw material comes partly from the cooler highlands. The result of all of this: rum tastes more caramel-like, cachaça tastes spicy and fruity.
A schnapps on the plantation
According to legend, farmers in Sao Vicente in the state of Sao Paulo discovered in the 16th century that the cattle got a headache after they had eaten fermented sugar cane.