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Three shot in jewellery heist on busy street

Three people were wounded during an armed robbery on a jewellery store on a busy street in Ängelholm, southern Sweden on Saturday.

Three shot in jewellery heist on busy street

On Saturday afternoon, police were searching for three robbers who reportedly fled the scene on a yellow or orange moped.

Those wounded in the incident were taken to a hospital in Helsingborg. They were in a stable condition and did not sustain serious physical injuries, police spokesman Nils Norling told news agency TT.

The police found a moped which they believe belonged to the robbers near the railway tracks in Ängelholm.

Witnesses said the robbers swapped the moped for a dark Audi which they drove at high speed towards the nearby town Höganäs.

“We are carefully following the lead that they fled to Höganäs, but that is just one among many tracks that we are working on,” said Norling.

According to the police, the three robbers wore helmets and dark clothes.

There were a lot of people and activity on Storgatan, the street where the jewellery store is located, at the time of the robbery. While police were questioning people on site on Saturday afternoon they also called for witnesses to step forward.

Several empty bullet shells and at least one bullet lay on the ground outside the jewellery store after the robbery, according to a press photographer with the Scanpix agency.

The police did not want to comment on what kind of weapons the robbers used and said they did not know whether the robbers manage to take anything from the store.

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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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