It turns out that those who stole the stolen gold coin from a German museum in Berlin on March 26, the size of a 100-kilogram car wheel, worth about $ 4 million, are "members of a Lebanese mafia," according to the police, who raided a house Where they were staying and apprehended by a lightning operation.
The piece, which disappeared at dawn on March 26 from the Bodo Museum on the "Museum Island" opposite the house of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, read the "Arab.Net" archive of news as broadcast by the agencies when stolen, it is mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records, As a souvenir of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. It was issued in 2007 by the Royal Canadian Coin Factory with a diameter of 53 cm and a diameter of 53 cm. It is 99.999% gold and there are only 5 of them, bought by rare coin collectors such as the one it bought in 2010 and is among the most important.
Big Maple Leaf's designers and makers called it a picture of a large maple tree with a $ 1 million cash hole. It was inside a bullet-proof glass box in the famous museum with 500,000 rare coins, of which 100,000 From the ancient Greek period and more than 50 thousand Roman times.
The mystery of "man inside" and his role in theft
In the video below, a real idea and scenario of what happened, based on surveillance cameras, as well as extensive police investigation of how the robbery of the hero was 3 people, with another worker in the museum itself, unknown to now, the "man inside" as they call , Or the element that provided the robbers with information and "logistical" facilities ensured the success of their theft in a way that looked like Hollywood movies.
One of the thieves, we see in the video bound by the police. The building of the museum and the peace used by the gantry for the piece of cash to climb to its surface, and the crossing from it to the rope, where the "big maple leaf" in a glass box was smashed with a hammer. There are also scenes taken by surveillance cameras of the three, as they leave a metro station on their way to the museum and on their heads and faces hide their features.
The Lebanese family leads the gang
The detainees were four members of a family, aged between 18 and 20, but the police did not mention their names, which were searched by "Al-Arabiya.net" by reading a number of German media reports, including Bild, which mentioned the first names of two of them , But police said they arrested them on July 12 during the raid on their home in the popular area of Neukoelln in Berlin, without mentioning the nationality of some of them that day, which was announced only last Thursday, and reported on the theft and detainees published by the newspaper "Daily Mirror" British newspaper yesterday.
At the house, the police found what they needed to convict those arrested, the most important of which was the robbery. She later released one of them, aged 19, and found to be innocent of participating with others, but continued to be interrogated while he was free. On the "inside man" without which the thieves did not succeed.
A spokesman for the German police said that thieves had crossed the museum from a window on its roof overlooking a railway line where they had erected a ladder to the roof, pointing out that it is not yet known how the thieves managed to transfer the piece of cash that they believe was smelted and defrosted. Her transfer from the museum may have been done using a small vehicle to where a car was waiting for them.
Search for 9 suspects, mostly from a Lebanese family
On Friday, the Bild newspaper described the theft as the most shocking in the history of Berlin, but did not mention the Lebanese nationality of the detainees, but said it was "an Arab gang led by members of a Lebanese family." On July 13, A day after the police announced the arrest of the perpetrators of the theft without mentioning their nationality, that the gang are members of a Lebanese family name starts with letter R and said that her investigations indicated that a guard in the museum is among the detainees, without mentioning his nationality, and that 9 suspects have not been arrested yet Mostly from that family.
The most important thing that Bild said is that the three thieves are directly to the cash piece are the 20-year-old Wam, and a brother named Abdul, two years younger than him. The third, whose name was not mentioned, was 19 years old and was "the mediator," possibly referring to a link between "the man inside" and his two brothers, who provided everyone with details and information about the museum and its gold pieces.
