A German court has convicted five men over the theft of 18th-century jewels worth more than $100 million from a Dresden museum in 2019.
Officials said at the time that the items taken included a large diamond brooch and a diamond epaulette.
The men laid a fire just before the break-in to cut the power supply to street lights outside the museum, and also set fire to a car in a nearby garage before fleeing to Berlin. They were caught several months later in raids in Berlin. The plea bargain had been agreed to by four defendants, who subsequently admitted their involvement in the crime through their lawyers. The fifth defendant also confessed, but only to the procurement of objects such as the axes used to make holes in the museum display case, dpa reported.
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