Green Vault: Bulk of items stolen in £100m museum heist found by police

Police say they have retrieved most jewels taken in Dresden art theft dubbed ‘largest in modern history’

German authorities said they had found most of the jewels stolen in a £100m heist from a historic art collection.

An overnight operation in Berlin recovered a total of 31 items taken from the Green Vault museum in the eastern city of Dresden’s Royal Palace in November 2019, police said.

Their return followed negotiations between prosecutors and defence lawyers for the Germans on trial for the break-in that targeted one of Europe’s greatest art collections.