At 4:59 a.m. on Monday , police were notified that a jailbreak - in was afoot at Dresden Castle in the easterly German state of Saxony . CNNreportsthat the thieves stole more than 100 items from the Green Vault , one of Europe ’s big collections of gem , ornaments , and other priceless treasures .
allot tothe BBC , the thieves entered by partially detaching an atomic number 26 grille from a window on the earth level , and go to steal three of the museum ’s 10 ball field lot , which also let in rubies , emeralds , and sapphires .
Augustus the Strong , who predominate Saxony in the early 18th century , founded the Green Room as Europe ’s first public museum , meet it with valuable as a means to promote Dresden as a sum for the arts . fit in toCNN , the rooms feature “ shimmering bowls carved out of quartz glass and agate to jeweled gold figurines to the Dresden Green , the largest and fine green diamond in the existence . ”
Though police and museum personnel are still trying to confirm the full extent of the stickup , the conductor of Dresden ’s State Art Collections , Marion Ackermann , said the historic significance of the pieces makes their value difficult to calculate . One , for object lesson , is a 648 - karat sky-blue that Russian tsar Peter the Great gave to Saxony as a giving .
She suppose the jewels ’ renown will forestall the criminals from selling any pieces legally , but the thieves may render to break up the sets and deal them opus by piece on the opprobrious market .
Saxony ’s quality minister Michael Kretschmer take to Twitter to express his outrage at the heist , saying that it was n’t just the museum that had been robbed , but the hoi polloi of Saxony , too .
To track down the thieves , police are working off CCTV footage that shows two suspects on the premises , as well as the burn remains of a cable car — perchance a lam car — line up in the city early Monday morning .
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