Back at the end of 2019....I essayed a piece or two over the Dresden jewel theft involving the 'Green Room'. The value of the jewels stolen? Minimum of one-billion Euro.
Most security folks would have said the design and capability of the 'vault' was enough, and this crew who robbed the place....probably had spent a fair amount of time thinking over how to conduct this theft.
About a month into the investigation....the cops latched onto this crime-family gang in Berlin. Enough clues, but getting the members was a problem.
N-TV brought up the topic this morning, and it's taken a twist or two.
The crew or gang? Remmo. They have an interesting history. For a long time, they were based out of southern Turkey (Mardin). At some point in the 1930s....they moved into Lebanon. As the Lebanese Civil War started up in the 1980s....the family packed up and moved to West Berlin. They have been there ever since.
Their chief practices? Theft, trafficking in stolen property, arms trafficking, murder, drug trafficking, robbery, extortion, bodily injury, and money laundering.
Generally, in Berlin....if you were looking for a group with absolutely no fear of the police or prosecution folks....this would be the crowd. I would classify them as PhD-level 'scientists' in the art of crime.
So the cops have now found the five guys they suspect of the jewel heist.
The jewels? Well...they haven't been found.
The odds that they may never be recovered? Here's the thing....there's only a handful of people in the world who'd have some desire for them, and willing to pay a fair amount of money for them. If you were asking street-value for the stolen jewels....I'd seriously doubt you could get more than hundred-million (you could never display them). A Russian billionaire or two might be the only sources for the jewels.
But behind this....I suspect the Remmo group are still sitting on the billion-Euro jewel package and it's more of a status-symbol than anything else. Every non-Remmo gang around Berlin has to admire the way this was pulled off, and the lack of fear on the gang's part with the police/law.
If the Berlin police fail to recover the jewels? I think this is the top scenario to consider. And it wouldn't surprise me if the gang already has the next big heist in their mind to continue their status-building.
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