Posted on 05/16/2023 5:39:06 AM PDT by texas booster
A German court on Tuesday convicted five men over the theft of 18th-century jewels worth more than 100 million euros from a Dresden museum in 2019.
They were sentenced to prison sentences of between four years and four months and six years and three months, German news agency dpa reported. One defendant was acquitted.
The Dresden state court ruled that the five men — aged 24 to 29 — were responsible for the break-in at the eastern German city’s Green Vault Museum on Nov. 25, 2019, and the theft of 21 pieces of jewelry containing more than 4,300 diamonds, with a total insured value of at least 113.8 million euros ($129 million) ...
The men laid a fire just before the break-in to cut the power supply to street lights outside the museum, and also set fire to a car in a nearby garage before fleeing to Berlin. They were caught several months later in raids in Berlin.
In January, there was a plea bargain between the defense, prosecution and court after most of the stolen jewels were returned.
(Excerpt) Read more at news4jax.com ...
Guess what this sanitized version of the AP story left out?
Turks or real Germans?
From DW.com:
The burglars are members of a so-called Remmo clan, a notorious criminal family network, known for ties to organized crime in Germany.
Yep - but the BBC calls this an "arab" crime family.
Wacky Euros. Think that is one doesn't mention the ethnicity of criminals might actually help them to reform.
So why would the AP be such weasels?
You mean there isn’t a German word for “deal”?
Good catch.
At least English will live on after the UK and the US are gone.
AP has been "Progressive" right from the start.
AP was one of the major ways the Progressives shaped the narrative of the nation for 70 years, at least.
Also:
The Remmos come from Lebanon and came to Berlin in the 1980s. There was no uniform transcription from Arabic: Remmo, Rammo, Remo. In criminology, the media and politics, the Remmos act as a kind of model for "clan crime" , which the Federal Criminal Police Office describes as regular crimes being committed by relatives in "ethnically isolated subcultures".
As became known a few months ago, the Berlin police were already convinced in 2012 of the danger posed by the extended Arab family, as a confidential document shows. However, these findings had no consequences. (dpa / AFP)
Secret LKA report shows danger from large families as early as 2012
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