3 condemned in bold theft of old gold coins of the German Museum

Three men were convicted on Tuesday for theft of hundreds of old gold coins. of a German museum in 2022 and delivered prison sentences that go 11 years.

A court in the southern city of Ingolstadt condemned the defendants of theft of gang for the robbery of the museum, DPA of the German news agency DPA reported. A accused room was acquitted of participation in the robbery of the museum, but convicted of other robberies carried out by the group.

The suspects of northern Germany were arrested months after a November 22, 2022 receipt at the Celtic and Roman Museum in the Bavarian city of Manches, in which 483 Celtic coins were stolen discovered during an archaeological excavation of 1999. The coins date around 100 ac

The coins and a golded gold lump were originally discovered during the excavations of an old spots settlement, and the authorities have said that they are considered the greatest Celtic gold treasure that is in the twentieth century.

The robbery took place in just nine minutes, the investigators said. At 1:17 am, the cables were cut into a nearby telecommunications center, leaving the region without communications networks. The museum door opened at 1:26 am, the thieves left the building at 1:35 am, the officials said, leaving them only a few minutes to open a showcase and take the treasure. Alarms were not activated during the incident. The museum did not have a night guard.

Most of the stolen treasure is still missing, but the investigators found gold lumps in one of the suspects when it was arrested that seem to have turned out from the fact that part of the treasure melted. Rupert Gebhard, head of the archaeological collection of the Bavarian State in Munich, said in 2022 that seeing the melted coins would be “the worst option.”

The four defendants were accused of a total of 20 robberies or attempts at robberies in Germany and neighboring Austria, as of 2014. Other cases involved safes or cash machines that were divided.

The defendants did not approach the charges during the trial of approximately six months, but their lawyers requested their acquittal.

The court sentenced them to the prison that varied from four years and nine months to 11 years.

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