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Thieves use wheel loader in cash machine heist

Thieves driving a wheel loader through the entrance of a supermarket near Gothenburg, in western Sweden, early on Friday morning, scooped a cash machine straight out of the wall before disappearing from the scene with their loot.

Thieves use wheel loader in cash machine heist

“A wheel loader has been driven straight through the entrance and a cash machine has been torn out of the wall. As it looks right now, the thieves have made away with the safe behind it,” said Johan Ljung of the local police to news agency TT.

The incident, which also caused a major water leak, occurred around 2.20am on Friday morning.

Shortly thereafter a police patrol noticed a speeding Renault heading towards Gothenburg. The car was later found abandoned about 25 kilometres from the crime scene.

“In the car we found an angle grinder which the offenders probably used to remove the case for the ATM”, said Thomas Fuxborg, spokesperson for the Västra Götaland police to Aftonbladet newspaper.

The area was searched with a K9 patrol without any results, and it is still unclear how much money was in the safe.

Police is now investigating the car and possible surveillance material that might be of use. They’re also looking for witnesses to the crime.

There are still no suspects, but police expect the number of offenders to be at least 2-4, according to Fuxborg.

A similar heist occurred just before midnight on Wednesday when masked thieves used a wheel loader as a battering ram to rob electronics giant Mediamarkt in Skövde, some 150 kilometres from Gothenburg.

And earlier this summer someone tried to pull out a cash machine in Gothenburg the same way, but without success.

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MUSEUM

German police arrest fugitive twin over Dresden museum heist

German police said Tuesday they have arrested one of two fugitive twin brothers from the so-called Remmo clan wanted over their suspected role in snatching priceless jewels from a museum in the city of Dresden.

German police arrest fugitive twin over Dresden museum heist
Archive photo from April 2019 shows the Jewellery Room of the Green Vault. Photo: DPA

The 21-year-old suspect was detained in Berlin on Monday evening over what local media have dubbed one of the biggest museum heists in modern history, a spokesman for the police in the eastern city of Dresden said.

The twins had eluded German authorities when they carried out raids last month and arrested three members of the Remmo clan, a family of Arab origin notorious for its ties to organised crime.

Police then named them as 21-year-old Abdul Majed Remmo and Mohammed Remmo.

All five suspects are accused of “serious gang robbery and two counts of arson,” Dresden prosecutors said.

Police did not immediately name the arrested twin. His brother remains on the run.

The robbers launched their brazen raid lasting eight minutes on the Green Vault museum in Dresden's Royal Palace on November 25th, 2019.

READ ALSO: Everything you need to know about the Dresden museum heist

Having caused a partial power cut and broken in through a window, they snatched priceless 18th-century jewellery and other valuables from the collection of the Saxon ruler August the Strong.

Items stolen included a sword whose hilt is encrusted with nine large and 770 smaller diamonds, and a shoulderpiece which contains the famous 49-carat Dresden white diamond, Dresden's Royal Palace said.

The Remmos were previously implicated in another stunning museum robbery in the heart of Berlin in which a 100-kilogramme gold coin was stolen.

Investigators last year targeted the family with the seizure of 77 properties worth a total of €9.3 million, charging that they were purchased with the proceeds of various crimes, including a 2014 bank robbery.

READ ALSO: €1 million gold coin stolen from iconic Berlin museum

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