Perpetrators are believed to have cut the electricity supply to the Green Vault in Dresden, before breaking in by bending the iron bars of a small ground-floor window.
What is currently known is that thieves escaped via a sedan and only targeted jewels, gems and diamonds, leaving bulkier items such as paintings behind.
Its most valuable item—a unique 41-carat naturally green diamond—is currently on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. "The valuables housed in the Green Vault and Residenzschloss were hard-won by the people in the Saxony Free State with difficulty, over many centuries.
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