In the process of stealing jewels from the Dresden Green Vault, one of the accused spoke out for the first time on Tuesday.
The 28-year-old Rabieh Remo, who, unlike the other defendants from the notorious Remmo clan, only has an "M" in his last name, had one of his defense attorneys explain that he was involved in the preparation, but not in the execution of the crime has been.
Accordingly, one of the perpetrators, whom Remo did not name, asked him four days before the theft if he wanted to be involved in the break.
There was talk of a large booty of jewels, which is why he initially got involved.
He got a car and drove to Dresden with the perpetrators to inspect the crime scene.
He climbed over the wall to the Residenzschloss, on the ground floor of which the treasury is located, to check visibility and escape options.
On the day of the crime himself, he got into one of the later getaway vehicles in Berlin, but got out again after a police check in the capital, where the burglary tools were also found in the trunk.
He did not consider the control to be a coincidence and therefore considered the project to have been blown, the statement said.