Eldorado Dresden
The coup of breaking into the treasury of the Residenzschloss and using an axe to break open selected display cases will go down in the history of the largest property rearrangement activities after the Second World War. Rarely has a simple breach caused such a sensation worldwide. Media from all over the world report on the security deficiencies in Germany and invite all criminals to imitate the perpetrators of Dresden.
From the USA it was reported that the security forces did not intervene because they were not armed, and one wonders why no one intervenes against their president, although everyone there is armed. But the news makers in the wild west have still not understood that security does not include shooting people. Calling the police doesn't help either, since their job is to regulate traffic and maintain public order, but at least they can coordinate the investigation of what happened.
Even on Wikipedia, the German- and English-language article on the Pretiosensaal has been expanded, though hardly in detail at this point, in order to give imitators few clues as to how to proceed. Yet precise details are so important in order to later make a film about the perpetrators and their touching story, as is known from the 1963 English postal robbery.
Planning is everything
Unfortunately, it will still take many years until then. Unlike the robber Buster played by a British musician, it is not about peanuts like a good two million pounds, and the fact that no person was harmed also holds too little potential for Hollywood. Even the person with the axe was protected, and the centimetre-thick (safety) glass did not shatter either, otherwise a bystander could have been injured.
The only weak point is the client, because whoever forges such a plan also wants the world to know about it. Presumably the same person was involved in the moon landing, and before he is too old for such elaborate scripts, he wanted some jewellery for the Amber Room, which also did not disappear, but was rebuilt in a bay on Atlantis.
How to
The tools used are remarkable. Investigators are still puzzling over how the window on the ground floor could be prised open as a sporting entrance. Only tools matching the era of the jewellery to be looted were used. It is well known that an ancient axe can break open modern tanks, which not even explosives can do, and if one is going to steal diamonds of inestimable value, then please do it in style. In this context, it is certainly to be criticised that the perpetrators, who knew that they were being recorded by cameras, did not dress in Renaissance or classicist clothes. This can only be excused by the fact that an argument would certainly have broken out over who was allowed to wear the fancy frilly blouse and that some accessories would have hindered their escape.
It is to be hoped that those responsible can be questioned soon. Not to punish them, of course, since nothing has been stolen except with compacted carbon and other worthless elements as secondary fastening material. Rather, the material, which is so rare for the investigating authorities, is to be improved in order to be able to create a youth-free film for young viewers as well, so that the example sets a precedent and everyone really does find their Eldorado and the world becomes a little bit better.