In the process of stealing jewels from the Dresden Green Vault, an expert from the Munich Institute for Forensic Experts testified on Friday to determine the body size of the perpetrators.
It is about those two of the six defendants from the partly criminal Berlin Remmo clan who, according to the public prosecutor, destroyed the showcases in the treasury in November 2019 and stole almost two dozen exhibits from three baroque sets of jewellery.
Direct identification is difficult because of the poor footage from the surveillance cameras.
Stephen Locke
Correspondent for Saxony and Thuringia based in Dresden.
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Based on video stills, on which the burglars can be seen in full size, the institute had the situations with people whose heights are known recreated.
As a result, assignments are possible for a limited group of people – such as the accused, said the forensic scientist.
The figures finally determined support the prosecution, while the defense denies that their clients have anything to do with the theft.
A target investigator from the Federal Criminal Police Office, who was questioned later, finally testified about the arrest of the accused twin brothers, who were underage at the time of the crime, which is why the trial is taking place before the youth chamber of the Dresden Regional Court.
Accordingly, both men were observed and their phones were tapped.
While one of the two was arrested a year and a half after the crime in his parents' apartment, the other was overpowered a year after the burglary in a meeting with a contact person.
On the phone, he and his accomplices tried to disguise him as a woman, but they constantly got confused with the personal pronouns he and she, the investigator said.