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The Dresden Green Vault Burglary: A Historic Museum Heist
TLDR In a daring heist, a team of thieves broke into the Greenvault Museum in Dresden, Germany and stole valuable jewel treasures worth an estimated 1 billion euros. The burglary, which remains the largest heist in human history, has prompted a global reassessment of museum security.
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A team of thieves broke into the Greenvault Museum in Dresden, Germany and stole valuable jewel treasures in under an hour.
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The Greenvault Museum in Dresden, Germany was converted into a museum in 1723 by Augustus the Strong to showcase its treasures, making it one of the oldest museums in the world.
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During the bombing of Dresden in 1945, three rooms of the Greenvault were destroyed, but the treasures were moved out of the city beforehand and were returned in 1958, and the entire vault building was rebuilt to look almost exactly as it did before.
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The burglars gained access to the museum by cutting through the bars over a window, smashed the glass protecting a particular display case, emptied fire extinguishers to hide evidence, and escaped in a blue Audi S6 before later being found burned out in a parking garage.
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The Dresden Green Vault burglary involved the theft of several valuable items, including a breast pin, a sword, a shoulder piece with the Dresden white diamond, and a total of over 4,300 encrusted diamonds, with an estimated value of 1 billion euros, and the police suspect that there were seven people involved in the heist.
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In November 2020, several members of the Remo Crime Family were arrested in Berlin, including a suspect in the 2017 robbery of a giant gold coin, and additional arrests were made in December 2020, May 2021, and September 2021, with a total of six men now in custody awaiting trial.
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The Dresden Green Vault burglary prompted a reassessment of security in museums worldwide, as none of the stolen items have been recovered and it remains the largest heist in human history.
