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Two individuals convicted of stealing jewels from the historic Green Vault in the eastern German city of Dresden will remain free for the time being after failing to present themselves for admission to prison by a deadline on Tuesday. The break-in at Saxony’s famous treasure chamber museum on November 25, 2019, was one of Germany’s most spectacular art thefts. The perpetrators stole 21 pieces of jewellery made of diamonds and gems, causing more than €1 million ($1.1 million) in damage, partly because they set one of their getaway cars on fire in an underground car park of a residential buildin…

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