{"id":24084,"date":"2022-11-24T09:15:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=24084"},"modified":"2022-11-24T09:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:15:24","slug":"gold-coins-worth-e1-6m-stolen-in-nine-minute-heist-from-german-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/11\/24\/gold-coins-worth-e1-6m-stolen-in-nine-minute-heist-from-german-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold coins worth \u20ac1.6m stolen in nine-minute heist from German museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thieves have stolen a hoard of Celtic gold coins worth about \u20ac1.6m (\u00a31.4m) from a museum in Germany.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hundreds of coins were taken from the museum in Manching, Bavaria, in the middle of the night in a nine-minute raid, police said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The thieves may have sabotaged the museum’s alarm system. Just before the break-in, nearby internet cables were cut causing widespread outages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police are exploring whether the theft is linked to previous raids.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The outages meant the alarm system was not triggered when a door was pried open, although it was able to record when the robbery happened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Employees discovered shattered glass on the museum floor and the coins missing from their display case the next morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rupert Gebhard, Head of Collections at the State Archaeological Collection, mourned the loss saying “it feels like losing an old friend”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A second display case was broken into, where three larger coins were also taken.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Officials suspect organised crime to be behind the coin robbery, and police alluded to “possible parallels” with previous heists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2017, a hefty gold coin weighing 100kg was snatched from a Berlin museum. Two years later, thieves took 21 pieces of jewellery and other valuables in a dramatic diamond heist at Dresden’s Green Vault museum that was caught on CCTV.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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However, police warned that they “cannot say” whether there are connections between the thefts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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