Germany: Five sentenced to prison for 100-million-euro jewelry heist

The scene outside Dresden’s Green Vault Museum on November 25, 2019, following the theft of more than $100 million dollars’ worth of 18th-century jewelry and precious objects from the German institution. Five men were convicted of the crime and sentenced to prison terms of four to six years in length; a sixth was acquitted. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Bambizoe. Shared under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
The scene outside Dresden’s Green Vault Museum on November 25, 2019, following the theft of more than $100 million dollars’ worth of 18th-century jewelry and precious objects from the German institution. Five men were convicted of the crime and sentenced to prison terms of four to six years in length; a sixth was acquitted. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Bambizoe. Shared under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
The scene outside Dresden’s Green Vault Museum on November 25, 2019, following the theft of more than $100 million dollars’ worth of 18th-century jewelry and precious objects from the German institution. Five men were convicted of the crime and sentenced to prison terms of four to six years in length; a sixth was acquitted. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Bambizoe. Shared under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

BERLIN (AP) – A German court on May 16 convicted five men for the theft of 18th-century jewels worth more than 100 million euros (roughly $107,800 million) 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.

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