Defendants reveal in court how they pulled off brazen theft of $123 million in jewels at German museum

Three members of a notorious criminal gang confessed to stealing priceless 18th-century jewels from a German state museum at their trial in Dresden on Tuesday.

Rabieh Remmo, one of six defendants, told the regional court in the eastern city that he and an unnamed accomplice broke into the Green Vault museum in a brazen night-time raid in November 2019.

The 29-year-old said they smashed the glass of the display cases "with an axe" and jammed the jewelry in a sack they brought with them, in a statement as part of a sentencing deal.