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Berlin / Dresden (dpa / bb) - Two months after the arrest of alleged perpetrators in the spectacular Dresden jewel theft, a fifth suspect is still hiding.
The Dresden public prosecutor said on Thursday that the 21-year-old man from an Arab clan in Berlin is still being sought.
It was not until January 5 that the suspect escaped being attacked by the police in Berlin.
A special task force (SEK) and investigators from the State Criminal Police Office in Saxony had searched an apartment in Neukölln.
"We had a legitimate assumption that he was in the apartment," said a spokesman for the Dresden public prosecutor.
But the man was gone, the police only found two cell phones and documents.
On November 25, 2019, the perpetrators broke into the famous Grünes Gewölbe treasury in Dresden and stole valuable historical jewels.
A year later, on November 17, 2020, the police arrested three alleged perpetrators from the well-known large Arab-born Remmo family.
Two 21-year-old twin brothers fled that night, one of whom was arrested on December 14th.
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The four suspects are still in custody in Dresden.
A quick indictment in the next few months is not expected.
"That will take a while," said a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office at the German press agency.
The investigations are extensive, especially the viewing of the many storage media takes time.
After the recent raid in Berlin, further evidence was to be evaluated, including eight cell phones.
So far, none of the four highly suspicious men have spoken out.
So far, 216 references from the population have been received about the ongoing manhunt.
"None of them were useful for the arrest," said the spokesman.
There is still no trace of the stolen pieces of jewelery from the 17th and 18th centuries.
The special commission «Epaulette» is working flat out to clear up the case, he said.
"When a degree can be expected cannot be reliably said at the moment."