Berlin police seek information on tools used for museum gold heist
BERLIN — Berlin police have published pictures of the tools used to steal a 100kg gold coin stolen from a city museum as they scramble to track down the thieves.
Visitors standing in the room where a 100kg-heavy gold coin was displayed in the Bode Museum, in Berlin, Germany, on March 28, 2017. Photo: DPA via AP
BERLIN — Berlin police have published pictures of the tools used to steal a 100kg gold coin stolen from a city museum as they scramble to track down the thieves.
Officials say at least two burglars broke into the Bode Museum early on Monday (March 27), using a ladder to climb to a window from elevated railway tracks. They grabbed the “Big Maple Leaf” coin, worth some US$4.5 million (S$6.29 million), and loaded it onto a wheelbarrow.
Police on Friday posted online pictures of the new-looking wheelbarrow, the ladder, an axe handle and other objects left behind after the theft. They asked for information from anyone who saw those tools before the theft or saw someone buying them.
Authorities believe the three-centimetre thick coin was likely damaged in the theft. AP
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