Berlin (AFP)
The Stasi Museum in Berlin, which tells the story of the political police of the former GDR, was burgled and gold jewelry and gold decorations stolen, announced Sunday the authorities, a few days after the spectacular robbery of a museum in Dresden.
The perpetrators broke into the night from Saturday to Sunday through a museum window and "broke several shop windows and stole some medals and jewelry," police said in a statement.
They escaped with their booty without being worried.
The time of the break-in remains uncertain, but an employee discovered Sunday morning broken windows in the showrooms.
Among the stolen goods are a gold medal of the Order of Patriotic Merit, one of the Order of Lenin and one of the Order of Karl Marx, the highest decoration in Communist Germany, said the director of the Jörg Drieselmann Museum at the daily Tagesspiegel.
Rings and a watch were stolen, he added. They had been confiscated from citizens by the political police.
After the fall of the communist regime in 1990, many articles were returned to their owners. Others, which had not been claimed, remained exposed at the Stasi Museum.
"These are not valuable treasures, but we are a history museum and do not expect to be robbed," the director told Tagesspiegel.
The robbery takes place a few days after another burglary in the so-called Grünes Gewölbe ("green vault") museum in Dresden, in the former GDR, where burglars stole 18th-century jewels from dawn last Monday. an inestimable value.
The police are looking for four suspects and a reward of 500,000 euros is offered for any information on the Dresden robbery.
Culture Minister Monika Grütters this week has called for a national conference on the safety of German museums.
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