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Gold coins thief Wissam Remmo has been transferred from pre-trial detention in Saxony to prison in Berlin, where the 24-year-old now has to go to an adult prison.
WELT learned this from judicial circles in Berlin and Saxony.
With the decision, a real judicial odyssey ends for the time being.
The break-in into Berlin's Bode Museum was one of the most spectacular thefts in German history.
Wissam Remmo broke into the museum with accomplices in March 2017 and stole the 100 kilogram gold coin “Big Maple Leaf”.
The investigators quickly tracked down the intruders.
The court hearing started in January 2019. In November 2019, Wissam Remmo presumably used the break in negotiations to start a new coup with other accomplices: the break-in of the Green Vault in Dresden, in which jewelry worth several million euros was stolen.
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The first clues quickly led the investigators to the Berlin clan milieu.
A spreading device, such as that used by fire departments, had been used during the break-in.
In a nationwide, confidential search of the investigating "Soko Epaulette" it was asked whether other state police had any knowledge of theft of the special tool.
And indeed: at the specialist company in Erlangen there had previously been a break-in into a show room where such devices had been stolen.
Involved in it and sentenced to two years and six months: Wissam Remmo.
In September last year, the police also searched an internet café in Neukölln and an apartment.
An employee is said to have sold the perpetrators SIM cards for cell phones that were registered under fictitious names.
The SIM cards were used in the preparation and execution of the coup.
On September 9, auto repair shops were searched.
There the getaway car is said to have been covered with foils.
The robbed and now exhibited showcase in the jewel room of the historic Green Vault in the Residenzschloss
Source: dpa-infocom GmbH
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While the investigations into the Grünes Gewölbe became more specific and culminated in searches and arrests, the trial of the break-in at the Bode Museum in Berlin continued.
The guilty verdict was there in February 2020. Wissam Remmo was sentenced to four and a half years of youth imprisonment because he was only 20 years old at the time of the offense.
He appealed against the judgment, but later withdrew it, contrary to his co-defendants.
The judgment became final on July 2nd last year.
Nevertheless, Wissam Remmo stayed free the whole time.
He was not summoned to begin custody until six months later.
That caused a lot of criticism and incomprehension.
In fact, there were massive delays because the verdict as a whole was not yet legally binding, as the appeal of the co-defendants was still ongoing.
For everyday court life, this meant that files had to be sent back and forth between the public prosecutor's office, court and registry.
The 100 kilogram "Big Maple Leaf" gold coin before it was stolen in the Bode Museum
Before Wissam Remmo was asked to start custody, however, special police forces intervened: Remmo was arrested in a spectacular raid in Berlin in November last year because of the alleged break-in into the Green Vault and brought to Saxony for remand.
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Meanwhile, the case also picked up speed in Berlin.
In December of last year, the responsible judge at the Berlin district court ruled that the now 24-year-old Wissam Remmo had to serve his sentence for breaking into the Bode Museum not in a youth prison, but in an adult prison.
The defense lawyers appealed against this, which has now been rejected.
The decision is therefore also legally binding.
The pre-trial detention ran parallel to the outstanding detention in Berlin.
From a legal point of view, this is complicated because there are two procedures.
Senior Public Prosecutor Jürgen Schmidt from Dresden told WELT when asked that Wissam Remmo had now been relocated to Berlin.
"For the preliminary investigation conducted here, the pre-trial detention is noted as so-called over-detention," said Schmidt.
In addition to Wissam Remmo, another member of the Remmo clan is being investigated because of the break-in into the Green Vault.
He is also on remand.
Two twin brothers initially escaped in the raid last November.
One was caught in December.
The other is still on the run.
As with the gold coin, there is no trace of the jewelry from the Green Vault.