Thieves break into one of the world’s oldest museums and make off with “priceless” sets of 18th-century jewelry in Germany
Police investigators walk in front of the Residenzschloss, Residence Palace, building with the Green Vault in Dresden, November 25, 2019.
“This is a bitter day for the cultural heritage of Saxony,” the state’s interior minister, Roland Woeller, told reporters. Green Vault director Dirk Syndram stressed that the collections in the museum have “invaluable cultural value” — particularly their completeness. The first officers arrived on the scene within minutes but the thieves had already fled in a waiting getaway car, which managed to elude immediate attempts to find it in the surrounding area and on the nearby highway, Dresden police chief Joerg Kubiessa told reporters.
Investigators suspect that a fire at an electrical junction box near the museum, which took out the streetlights at the time of the robbery, was linked to the crime, police said. The outage affected lights in front of a window through which the thieves gained entrance, somehow getting through bars and safety glass to reach the Jewel Room.
Woeller pledged that investigators would “do everything in [their] power not only to bring the cultural treasures back, but to capture the perpetrators.”
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