The thieves took many jewels worth about $ 1.1 billion after breaking into a museum in the Royal Palace in Dresden.

The burglary came early this year when thieves broke into the Green Tunnel museum in the Royal Palace, which holds one of the largest treasures in Europe with about 4,000 artifacts made of gold, silver and gems. and ivory. Police confirmed the incident on the afternoon of November 25 and said thieves were fleeing.

Authorities have not disclosed the extent of the damage, but the Berlin-based Bild daily said "the stolen jewelry is worth around one billion Euros (about 1.1 billion US dollars)". Museum officials later said the lost artifacts were "priceless and unique".

The thieves seem to have sabotaged a power station near the museum, then climbed through a window at the palace and took away small artifacts, ignoring large and difficult-to-transport properties.

The Blue Tunnel is one of the oldest museums in Europe, established in 1723. This work is in the group of 12 museums of the Dresden National Art Collection. The morning of November 25 was the second most serious theft in Germany in many years, after the 24-kilogram weighing 24-pound gold coin was removed from the Bode Museum in Berlin in 2017.