Five men were found guilty and sentenced to years in prison for participating in movie heist with a production of 123 million dollars in DresdenNovember 2015

According to the state MDR, it is not yet clear how many years each of the five perpetrators was sentenced to. Charges were dropped from the sixth defendant.

Chronicles

On December 25, 2019, the gang broke into the famous Green Vault, a museum with one of the largest collections of historical jewels and precious treasures in Europe.

Thieves broke into Dresden’s Green Vaults Museum and escaped with at least three sets of early 18th century jewelry, including diamonds and rubies, worth around $1.1 billion https://t.co/0RlxxwsVtm pic.twitter.com/l0y0DSjBMX

— Reuters (@Reuters) November 25, 2019

Security camera footage shows two masked men smashing a glass display case and seizing 21 diamond artifacts.

Footage released by the Saxony police shows two men in dark clothes moving quickly around the museum grounds with flashlights. One of them used an axe, making at least nine attempts to finally break the display case. The parallel fire they started caused a power outage in the area, resulting in they can move in total darkness.

CCTV footage shows the suspects breaking into Dresden’s historic Green Vaults using a hammer to smash a glass display case. During the night of the robbery, they escaped with valuables worth millions of dollars. https://t.co/LQziYaBeLj pic.twitter.com/SavaDzVTBV

— ABC News (@ABC) November 25, 2019

A few minutes later some of the most valuable historical jewels in the world they made the wings. Since then, only a few of the most valuable loot have been returned to the museum, and those in charge have expressed concern that some of them may never be found.

According to the director of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, an agency of 15 museums, the material value of the objects pales in comparison with the “priceless historical value.” and their cultural significance.

Almost all the booty was from the time of King Friedrich August III of Saxony (1696-1763) and included Hat buckle from 1780 set with 15 large and over 100 smaller diamonds.and also one Sword 96 cm with scabbardwhich consisted of at least 800 diamonds.

It was a carefully planned robbery. Members of the gang, residents of Berlin, visited the museum in Dresden several times to prepare the plan. They prepared an entry point ahead of time, using a hydraulic saw to cut through the window guards, and then taped them over so they wouldn’t be seen.

It is noted that one of the most famous exhibits of the museum collection is a green diamond weighing 41 carats, known as Dresden Greenthen absent from the museum, was loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Source: CNN