German court sentences five members of the same family to several years behind bars for a jewel heist at a museum which contains more than 4,300 diamonds with an estimated value of over $123M
Five members of the "Remmo clan" gang were handed sentences of between four years and four months and six years and two months over the 2019 heist, while a sixth family member was acquitted.Two of the robbers, who were minors at the time of the crime, received juvenile sentences of five years and four years and four months respectively. / Photo: Reuters
The thieves made off with a haul worth more than $123 million from the Green Vault museum. Some, but not all, of the loot was recovered in exchange for four of the defendants confessing in court. The plea deal came in for criticism, however, with the president of the Berlin prosecutors' association, Ralph Knispel, noting that the defendants had not been required to reveal their accomplices in exchange for lighter sentences.The trial, which began in January 2022, shed some light on the audacious heist but left key questions unanswered.
Ziegel defended the plea deal, saying that without it"the jewels which have been classed as irreplaceable would never have returned to the Green Vault".
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