The thieves of two dozen exhibits made of baroque jewelery two years ago in the Green Vault in Dresden had presumably prepared the crime scene several days earlier.
According to a report by the Spiegel magazine, they are said to have cut parts of the wrought-iron window grille through which they entered the treasury and put them back in place with glue so that they could penetrate the building more quickly on the night of the crime.
Stefan Locke
Correspondent for Saxony and Thuringia based in Dresden.
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In addition, the perpetrators are said to have used a vehicle duplicate in order not to attract attention at the crime scene.
For this they are said to have covered a Mercedes with beige taxi foil and stole the license plate from a Dresden taxi company.
The process again raises the question of whether and how the art treasures were secured at the time.
So far, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden had stated that the external surveillance cameras could not record the break because the thieves cut the street lights on the night of the crime.
In the days before, however, the street lights had not failed, so that preparations could hardly have been made unnoticed.
Meanwhile, six main suspects of the theft, who belong to the Berlin clan family Remmo, are in custody. The insurance value of the stolen exhibits is around 114 million euros; there is still no trace of them to this day.