Priceless jewels were swiped from one of Europe’s largest collections of treasure in the German city of Dresden.
the building through a small window. Authorities said three diamond jewelry sets, consisting of as many as 100 pieces of diamonds, pearls, and rubies, were taken from the Grüne Gewölbe housed in the downtown palace in what’s believed to be the biggest treasure heist in the postwar era. “We can confirm that there has been a break-in in the Grüne Gewölbe,” a police spokesman said Monday. “The perpetrators are on the run.
Police say they were notified by museum security personnel at 4:59 a.m. that a break-in was underway after spotting two suspects on CCTV. “The suspects came in through a window, and walked towards a glass vitrine, smashed it and left, they disappeared,” the Dresden police chief said. The Dresden fire department responded to a fire in the early morning hours nearby the collection that initial reports say could have been a part of the heist.
“The Grüne Gewölbe alone consists of 10 rooms teeming with about 3,000 items of jewellery and other recognised masterpieces,” the Guardian. “Treasures in the museum include a 63.8-centimetre figure of a Moor studded with emeralds and a 547.71-carat sapphire. One of its most famous and precious treasures, the Dresden Green Diamond, is currently on loan with other valuable pieces to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for an exhibit.
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