Dresden Green Vault robbery jewels recovered after heist

German constabulary accidental they person recovered a fig of 18th-century treasures stolen from a Dresden depository during a €113m (£98m; $119m) heist successful 2019.

Authorities returned 31 objects to the Green Vault depository aft being secured overnight successful Berlin.

The items were reportedly recovered aft talks with the lawyers of six men presently connected proceedings for the theft.

Among the items are a diamond-encrusted bosom prima and a richly-jewelled Heron Tail chapeau decoration.

The thieves stole the treasures from portion of a postulation created successful 1723 by Saxony's ruler, Augustus the Strong. They were housed successful the vault, known successful German arsenic Dreden's Grünes Gewölbe, until the robbery 2019.

German officials judge the heist was well-planned and professionally carried out. Before breaking into the museum, the thieves acceptable occurrence to a circuit-breaker panel, plunging the streets astir the depository into darkness.

Several masked figures past broke into the gallery, earlier smashing a solid show lawsuit with an axe and retrieving the jewels with sportfishing twine.

They past escaped successful an Audi getaway car, which constabulary aboriginal recovered connected occurrence successful an underground car park. The full cognition is believed to person taken little than 10 minutes.

The returned items volition present beryllium examined by specialists successful bid to corroborate the pieces' authenticity.

Not each of the items person been found, however. An epaulette which includes a precious chromatic known arsenic the Dresden White Diamond is inactive missing.

Authorities person fixed small item astir however the jewels were secured.

The proceedings of the thieves, which started successful January, is acceptable to resume connected Tuesday, AFP quality bureau reports.

The Green Vault postulation is housed successful 8 ornate rooms successful the Residenzschloss - a erstwhile royal palace.

Three rooms were destroyed by Allied bombing successful World War Two, but aft the warfare the depository was restored to its erstwhile glory.

It is called the Green Vault due to the fact that immoderate rooms were decorated with malachite-green paint.

There are astir 3,000 items of jewellery and different treasures decorated with gold, silver, ivory and pearl.

The postulation was founded by Augustus the Strong. He was Elector of Saxony - a German prince entitled to instrumentality portion successful the predetermination of the emperor - and aboriginal king of Poland.