back to the heist of the century

They thought they had pulled off the heist of the century. They had taken nine ax blows to smash the window of the largest collection of diamonds in Europe. They then fled in a repainted car to cover their tracks and take a record loot of at least 113 million euros. After three years of investigation, how did the German police manage to identify the burglars? Initially, investigators had very few clues.

The returned jewelry

The director of the Grünes Gewölbe museum, Marius Winzeler, explains that everything had been very carefully prepared. But it was in their flight that the criminals made a mistake and left traces. 5 km from the museum, they abandoned their car in the basement of a building. In the middle of the ashes, the investigators will find tiny fragments of the glass of the window and traces of DNA. Six arrests take place. The suspects are members of a gang of Lebanese origin. Contrary to their habits, they decided to talk and returned the jewels.