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Bamberg / Berlin (dpa / lby) - It should be a spectacular coup - two men drive their car into the window of a jewelry store in the middle of Bamberg and rob it.
A little later a Berlin police officer is in prison.
What happened?
The perpetrators stole a cell phone and a car in mid-January, only to drive to a jewelry store in Bamberg and clear it out.
Finally, they tried to cover their digital tracks on the Internet.
The thorough planning was probably no coincidence: if the evidence and the urgent suspicion of the Bamberg criminal police are correct, one of the perpetrators was a specialist in criminal matters: a 30-year-old Berlin police officer.
He was caught on January 19, and his alleged accomplice of the same age is now in custody.
Almost exactly two years ago, the same model was used to break into the jewelry store: The perpetrators drove into the facade of the shop in a stolen SUV.
The police checked a connection immediately after the break-in on January 15 - but the two current suspects are out of the question for the crime at the time.
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On January 14, a perpetrator in the Bamberg district met a woman who wanted to sell her expensive cell phone on the Internet.
The man stole the woman's cell phone by force and jumped into a waiting bright Mercedes, at the wheel of which an accomplice was already waiting.
Despite an immediate search by the police, the perpetrators were able to escape.
On the same evening the men in the Schweinfurt region stole a BMW sedan worth 18,000 euros by pretending to buy the car.
The next morning at around 5.45 a.m., the perpetrators rammed the stolen car in reverse gear into the window of a jewelry store in Bamberg.
They smashed display cases and stole several pieces of jewelry with a value in the lower six-digit range.
According to the information, the suspects fled in another car, a bright Mercedes, on the roof of which they had installed a blue light.
They left the BMW in the shop window.
According to their own account, the criminal police then found the suspect indirectly via the stolen cell phone.
The perpetrators were said to have acted “extremely conspiratorially” and obliterated their digital traces.
However, the "rapid transmission of information from the operator of the Ebay Internet platform led to decisive findings about the perpetrators and the devices they used".
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In the next step, the Bamberg police found - possibly via wiretapping of a cell phone - that one of the perpetrators wanted to sell the stolen cell phone in Berlin.
The Berlin police were informed.
Civil investigators caught the suspect at a S-Bahn station.
They quickly discovered that the man was also a police officer.
He had been reported sick for a long time.
On January 21, the second suspect from northern Germany was arrested in an apartment in the Bamberg district.
The police found numerous pieces of jewelry from the break-in in the apartment.
Both men are now in custody in Bamberg.
The police union (GdP) opposed generalizations on Tuesday: “There are police officers who rob, commit unlawful violence and express extremist ideas.
But nobody should make the mistake of defaming hundreds of thousands of people because of these acts who put themselves in the service of the people in our country every day. "
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210126-99-177638 / 2
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