Clangold (2026) s01e01 Episode Script
The Accomplice
THIS SERIES CONTAINS
RE-ENACTMENTS.
SOME PEOPLE'S VOICES
WERE DISGUISED
TO PROTECT THEIR ANONYMITY.
[tense music playing]
It's almost three years
after the spectacular theft
of a 100-kilo gold coin
from the Bode Museum in Berlin.
[reporter] One of the most
sensational trials in years
is drawing large crowds.
There's still no trace
of the multi-million
euro coin.
[Katrin]
The investigative pressure
was truly enormous.
Not only because
of the immense value
of what was stolen,
but also because the act
was so rife with symbolism.
The sheer act of walking
into the Bode Museum,
located right
in the heart of Berlin,
and so brazenly provoking
law enforcement was audacious.
[Sharo] They used a wheelbarrow.
Nobody got threatened,
nobody was killed or injured.
Nothing, nobody was harmed.
That's awesome.
[camera shutter clicks]
[reporter 1]
What we know for certain,
is that this theft
is so spectacular,
it'll undoubtedly
go down in history.
[Cathrin] They stole
a multimillion-euro coin
made of pure gold.
[reporter 2] These thieves
have gained attention
through their
impressive heists.
The culprits are members
of the Remmo Clan.
-The Remmo Clan.
-The Remmo Clan.
WHERE'S THE LUMP, YOU CHUMPS?
THIEVES CAUGHT, COIN GONE
This was all about maintaining
a special position
compared to the other families.
THE REPUBLIC'S
MOST AUDACIOUS CLAN
[Burkhard]
The Remmos are saying,
"We are able to fool the state
and bring such valuable items
into our possession."
[music continues]
Honestly, I would have loved
to have been there
just for the story alone.
I don't want any of the loot.
I just want to be able to say,
"Yeah, so then we walked
along the railroad tracks"
Just for the story.
EPISODE 1
THE ACCOMPLICE
[Cathrin] If it's true
that silence is golden,
then I shouldn't be
telling you
where an estimated
35 million euros
are being kept right now.
But not making it public
would be quite a pity,
because never before
has so much money,
on such a gigantic scale,
been stored anywhere
outside of a bank vault.
A coin that doesn't fit
into any wallet,
produced to get into
the Guinness
Book of World Records,
might cause gold fever
among visitors
of the Bode Museum.
[dramatic music playing]
[Katrin] It was just
a very, very large lump of gold.
1 MILLION DOLLARS 2007
ELIZABETH II
If you publicly brag
about something like this
in this way,
then you have to expect
that people will get the idea
to come try and steal it.
BURKHARD BENECKEN
LAWYER
[dramatic music playing]
DAY OF THE BURGLARY
MARCH 3, 2017
At the time,
I was the only security guard
at the Bode Museum the night
the gold coin was stolen.
THOMAS SCHNEIDER
SECURITY GUARD
The night of the crime
was actually
my very first shift on my own.
It was my first shift,
so of course I was nervous.
There was only one person
who was responsible
for the security
of the entire museum.
In my opinion,
I think two colleagues
should have been there,
at least.
[music continues]
The Bode Museum
is a rather large museum.
There are hundreds of rooms
and exhibition galleries.
It's built like a labyrinth.
To be honest, I was scared too.
[Katrin]
Every museum typically has
what is called
perimeter security.
It's an alarm that goes off
when any window is opened.
[machine whirring]
So why did the alarm not go off?
[tense music playing]
[glass shatters]
[music continues]
The thief's couldn't care less
that this coin was
a work of art.
They simply threw the coin
out of the window,
and it fell right
onto the railroad tracks.
KATRIN FAUS
SENIOR PROSECUTOR
Then they put it
in a wheelbarrow.
In Berlin, nobody cares
when three dark figures
walk along the railroad tracks
at night.
It's not an uncommon sight.
[suspenseful music playing]
They tell themselves
that the sentence
won't be that severe,
so they factor that in.
It's perfectly normal.
AHMAD MOHAMMED
BODYGUARD
It's just a coin.
So what?
Property damage, theft--
what have we done, seriously?
This might sound
ridiculous to you, but
that's how they're thinking.
Let's be real.
The theft was the best thing
that could have
ever happened to that coin!
MOHAMED CHAHROUR
ACTOR & AUTHOR "CLANLAND"
Because now everyone's heard
of that piece of art.
[siren blaring]
[tense music playing]
A flustered security guard
called saying,
"The coin's gone."
HANS-JÜRGEN HARRAS
HEAD OF SECURITY
I really thought that
if someone had just broken
the showcase open,
then surely they'd still
be inside the Bode Museum
with the gold coin.
At least I had hoped they were.
[music continues]
[both grunting]
[thud]
[man grunts]
[panting]
Okay, the officers are coming.
Then we looked
at the video recordings
and noticed that a car
without its headlights on
was driving along
the river bank,
then they turned them on
suddenly and quickly drove away.
[engine roaring]
So I thought, "Oh, shoot.
We won't be getting
that one back."
[panting]
[Katrin] We found items
that helped us determine
where the robbers climbed
in and out of the museum.
There was a furniture dolly
that you would normally use
when you're moving.
We also found various
scuff marks on the wall
where the dolly had probably
scraped up against
during the frenzy.
There were wedges at the doors.
There was a wheelbarrow left
on the the S-Bahn tracks.
A rope was tied to the bridge
that leads to Monbijou Park.
And that's what made us realize
that they had entered
through the window
from the railroad tracks
and left the same way.
And that they rappelled
from there.
POLIZEI
[Katrin] Our first thought was
that the person who was working
as the security guard
at the museum
during the night of the crime
must have a connection
to the perpetrators.
Because how is it possible
that the security guard
didn't notice anything going on?
You would need to know
at what time
he would be patrolling
the building,
so you can figure out
which window has to stay open.
Plus, they made a lot of noise.
[Thomas] Then they interrogated
me for two hours.
About where I had walked
and everything.
Again and again, they asked,
"Didn't you hear anything?"
And he was very
open about it.
[Thomas] It was after
three o'clock, approximately.
So, it was pitch dark
except for my flashlight.
And then I patrolled
the building.
I had to go down
into the basement as well.
And you can't hear anything
down there.
[Katrin] It seemed
very improbable to us
that he hadn't seen anything
during the theft at all.
[laughing]
I feel like a king!
[laughter]
-Let's go!
-Let's go, man! Whoo!
[upbeat music playing]
BURO
[sink running]
[ominous music playing]
[André] It was immediately
on social media.
On the news that night,
in the press the next day.
ANDRÉ BLUHM
DETECTIVE CHIEF INSPECTOR
Everything was about our case.
The break-in at the Bode Museum
and the theft
of the hundred-kilo gold coin.
[reporter]
Last night, strangers stole
an exceptionally large
gold coin.
According to the
National Museums in Berlin,
the piece was on loan
to the Collection
from a private owner.
Crooks have made off
with a huge Canadian gold coin
worth millions.
5.3 million dollars.
The police say
the suspects used a ladder
to get from the tracks
into a third-floor window,
which wasn't alarmed.
They stole it from a museum,
of all places.
You need stricter
security measures
for all of the artwork
in the basement alone.
SHARO
EX-CRIMINAL AND INFLUENCER
It made me chuckle, honestly.
No, seriously, I laughed.
[upbeat music playing]
[Sharo] It was tempting to just
carry the thing out of there.
I think it would be
just as tempting
for all of you
out there watching.
[indistinct chatter]
[Sharo] Hey, Ra'is!
-What's up?
-Salam aleikum.
Wallah alhamdulillah.
You look great,
I missed you, bro.
-How have you been?
-I'm good. How're you?
Habibi, everything's good.
Well, listen, I don't think
-what they did was good.
-Yeah.
And generally,
that the gold coin was stolen.
-Yeah.
-[Ra'is] But nobody died,
-nobody was injured as you said.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They made money. Man
These guys just walked
straight in and out.
-Exactly.
-I was at home when I heard.
In the evenings, I watch
the "Tagesschau" news,
I'm well-integrated,
I'm German, you know?
And then it came up.
A 100-kilo gold coin was stolen.
[reporter] So the thieves must
have been very well-prepared
when they entered the museum
last night to steal it.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Sharo]
I already kind of suspected
that an Arab family
might be behind it.
That they were the ones who just
simply carried off the coin.
The robberies at the KaDeWe
department store
were well-known too.
[upbeat music playing]
[Sharo]
They were quite audacious
with that one as well.
They just went in there
in broad daylight.
Within a minute and a half,
bang, bang, bang.
It's like a signature.
This audacity.
Like, "I'm taking this."
I had the impression
that was why the press
were so taken by it.
Because everyone romanticized it
in a Robin Hood kind of way.
Everyone had to admit
that it was kind of cool.
The general public noticeably
sympathized with the offenders.
But for an investigator,
that only fuels you.
We're not going to put up
with that.
[pensive music playing]
[camera shutter clicks]
[Katrin]
We focused on the window
the perpetrators had used
after we determined that
it was their point of entry
and escape at the museum.
We also found out
that the building's
perimeter security
had actually been compromised
at that one exact window.
Too many false alarms
had been set off,
so the alarm
on that specific window
had been deactivated.
In the '90s,
they started replacing
all of the windows
in the museum.
But the window through
which the break-in happened
hadn't been addressed.
Even though I'd urged them
to replace it.
[Katrin] We were
absolutely astonished
that a museum displaying
such valuable items
would have such
a massive security gap.
For a long time, there was only
ever a makeshift solution
put in place for this,
which was an additional
safety glass pane
in front of that window,
bolted to it from the outside.
[André] It left us
investigators speechless
that a defective window
that would've been known
about for years,
had never been dealt with
due to bureaucracy.
One could say
that's typical for Berlin.
[upbeat music playing]
[Sharo] If red tape was
in fact the problem,
then application forms here,
unapproved costs there,
and other formalities
were the reason
why the window wasn't secured.
That's not just
typical for Berlin,
that's typical for Germany.
That upsets me a lot more
as a German citizen
who pays loads in taxes.
They could have installed
a nice alarm system or a grate
in front of the window
or God knows what.
Then we wouldn't have had
that "mishap".
[chuckles]
Yeah.
[Katrin] One part
of the investigation was
to try and find any recordings
from the security cameras
in the area.
Our big break was
the security camera
placed at Hackescher Markt
station.
[Hans-Jürgen]
The distance from the station
to the Bode Museum
is somewhere around
250 to 300 meters.
ORIGINAL FOOTAGE
NIGHT OF THE CRIME
[André] They walked
along the platform.
One of them had
a distinctive way of walking.
[Katrin] They were wearing
dark clothes.
We know they were male.
And it was obvious they knew
that there would be cameras.
They stepped down
onto the railroad tracks.
And they never came back.
[tense music playing]
10 DAYS BEFORE THE BURGLARY
[André] A railroad employee
contacted us and said
that during his night shift
on March 17th,
he found a wheelbarrow
on the tracks.
So we looked through
the security footage
from ten days before the heist.
[André] And lo and behold,
we could see two individuals
that moved similarly
to the robbers on March 27th.
But they returned
to the platform
after about 20 minutes.
[Katrin] In the end,
we had three videos.
Those videos made it clear to us
just how meticulously
they had staked the place out
and how professionally
they had prepared themselves.
The videos gave us
our first look at the offenders,
but nobody recognized them.
[Katrin]
But it would later turn out
that these videos
we had gathered
were actually
of crucial importance.
Our next step
in the investigation was
to find out who already knew
about the security oversight
at the museum.
Besides the security guard
on duty that night,
we checked
all the security staff.
Not only Thomas S.
And we came across
one security guard
who had been on duty
on all the nights
that there had been activity
happening on the tracks.
And that was Denis W.
[André] Denis W.
was one of the security guards
who worked at the Bode Museum
before the theft took place.
He also had his own locker
in the locker room.
The same room
with the defective window
that the offenders
entered through.
[dramatic music playing]
[Hans-Jürgen] Denis W. was
employed by a subcontractor.
I didn't know him personally.
According
to what I heard later on,
he only worked
at the Bode Museum
for about three weeks.
[music continues]
[Katrin] We found
during our investigation
that he had once attracted
some attention
when he was
at a home improvement store
where he was seen
grabbing a crowbar
and trying it out
on a steel cabinet.
For a museum's
security staff member,
that's an unusual hobby
to be seen doing.
They're not security guards
in my eyes.
I'm sorry.
In the past, you needed
a master's certificate
or some sort of qualification.
Nowadays, anyone can become
a security guard.
[pensive music playing]
[Katrin]
Additionally, we found out that,
until recently,
there was
an ongoing investigation
against Denis W.
[André] A few weeks
before the theft,
a few colleagues of mine
had watched a person
steal a license plate.
They saw them
drive to a gas station
and fuel the vehicle.
They drove off without paying
and threw the plate away.
[dramatic music playing]
[whimsical music playing]
[André] My colleagues found
that Denis W.
had typical break-in tools
in his car.
They also found a map
of the Bode Museum in his car,
that had all of these
handwritten notes
scribbled on it.
[Katrin] The officer
who apprehended him
told us that
the defendant's phone
wouldn't stop ringing
the whole time he was with him.
[phone ringing]
[officer] What have we got here?
[Katrin] Then he got a text.
"I don't have time today."
Sent by A. Remmo.
The Remmo family was not
exactly unknown in Berlin.
So when that name
came up on his phone,
it was quite a big deal for us.
[indistinct radio chatter]
Remmo clan in trouble!
Drug raid at a Remmo shop
Remmo offspring (21)
Remmo clan
[André] When I got to work
the next morning
and heard the news,
it made me think,
maybe this is bigger
than we thought.
The fact that the Remmo clan
was somehow suddenly
involved in our case
was completely new
and unexpected to us.
I hadn't had anything to do
with the Remmo family
until then.
But the Art Crime Unit
was in charge
because it's theft
from a museum.
We as the Art Crime Unit
are known as "the artists"
within the police force.
I knew a lot of those clan names
from the stories
I saw in the press.
I had read about them
in the news quite often
and always thought,
"What's going on in this city?"
[Katrin] After the name
"A. Remmo" had come up,
we naturally assumed
that we weren't only looking
for just one or three culprits
for this crime.
We knew that there would be
a whole eco-system behind it.
[dramatic music playing]
That actually gave me
additional motivation
for the investigation.
The prospect of having them
as our adversary.
[Omar] Cheers, boys. Drink up.
When I was involved
in the criminal world,
I used to socialize a lot
with other extended families.
I really enjoyed
being in contact with them.
I wanted to be part of it, too.
I thought of one guy
from my village
who could have been
capable of the theft.
He's the only one who I thought
could've been so audacious.
[upbeat music playing]
That village, Rajdiye,
is located in Turkeye,
near Mardin.
This place is centuries old.
People only speak Arabic there.
And only a few kilometers away,
people only speak Turkish.
And that's what gives us
our identity.
That's what makes us
Mardellis so special.
[Burkhard] I still think
it's fascinating
that most Arab extended families
that we know from the media
all basically
come from one village.
A village that currently has
about two-thousand inhabitants.
I realized that pretty early on
because so many of my clients
somehow knew each other.
[Ahmad] A good friend of mine
always says to me,
"Come on, I'll take you
with me to Mardin,
so you can finally
visit your ancestral home."
Back then, there were
fewer than fifty families,
whereas today,
I'd say there's about
a hundred-thousand of us
here in Germany.
And of course, that leads
to a strong allegiance.
[laughs] It makes me laugh
because this reminds me so much
of Asterix and Obelix,
because they're also
from a small village.
And the Romans
still can't get them.
If one tiny village can produce
so much power like that,
well, then yeah, hats off
to you, congratulations.
[dramatic music playing]
I know so many clan members
because they all
supported me back then
when I was just starting
my career working in security.
They supported me
through it all,
so that no one
else would get in my way.
Because these people
saw me as family.
And I always had to go
to the police and say to them,
"I don't have
anything to do with that.
What do you want from me?"
I was always
on the brink of criminality
to get where I am now,
to become one of the most
successful bodyguards.
It's as simple as that.
What about the others?
Like, do they need
people there or not?
Sylvester Stallone.
John Travolta and Danny DeVito.
I would say
that she is my favorite friend,
Pamela Anderson.
She was really cool, very smart.
At some point,
I knew I had to get away
from those criminal
family clans,
even though to me,
they were my family.
I had to be able to stand
on my own two feet.
[ominous music playing]
Those Kurdish-Lebanese
families, the Mardellis,
were all related to each other,
however distantly,
be it the Omeirats,
the Al-Zeins, the Remmos,
in one way or another,
we're all connected somehow.
[Katrin] The name A. Remmo
and the individuals associated
with him was of course
a substantial clue
for us with this museum heist.
But what we really needed
was the connection
to the security leak
at the museum.
[pensive music playing]
[André] We're talking about
a puzzle here,
a mosaic that comes
together piece by piece.
So to make this happen,
we worked with
the public prosecutor's office
and started observing Denis W,
and tapping his phones.
[Katrin] Maybe someone they knew
tipped them off,
or maybe they had
an additional accomplice
from inside the museum.
Because even though
there was no perimeter security,
there was definitely
internal security,
and that can only be deactivated
for a short time.
It just so happened to go down
when the security guard
was patrolling the building.
[suspenseful music playing]
[André] The offenders
must have been prepared
to be discovered by the guard.
Unless he was part
of the gang himself.
We couldn't rule out
that the security guard
was working together
with the robbers.
[Allonge] We have to consider
the possibility
that the security guard
on duty that night
might have noticed something
on the security cameras,
but then got scared
and hid himself somewhere.
-That would have been
understandable.
-Yeah, he was.
[Hans-Jürgen] There are many
plausible scenarios.
For example,
if they knew he was working
as a security guard
at the museum,
they could've blackmailed him.
So he can never
be fully excluded
from the list of suspects.
We went to the railroad tracks
where the offenders
might have stood,
and we checked if they would
have been able to see
the security guard
move inside the museum
from the outside.
[Katrin] It was dark
inside the museum.
And then we could see
the lights turn on one by one
as the security guard
made his rounds.
So we could see exactly, okay,
now he's there,
and now you can go in.
It was clear to see
from the outside.
There was a prosecutor
with them, as well.
They said, "There's something
else we need to clear up."
[André] We were interested
to see how he'd react.
[Katrin]
And he seemed very calm.
He was the friendly neighbor
next door.
And then they started to
go upstairs where the coin
had been displayed.
And they took me
downstairs with them.
He stuck to his story,
"I didn't notice
anything that night.
I didn't see the offenders,
I didn't hear anything."
Could that really be true?
My colleague went into the room
where the coin
had been displayed.
And then, from upstairs,
they made noise.
Was he telling the truth?
Could he really
not hear the sound of glass
shattering from the basement?
And it was true.
He couldn't have heard that
from the basement.
So because of that,
we once again made him show us
the route that he had
claimed to have walked
in the first interrogation.
And to our surprise,
he suddenly showed us
a completely different route.
We looked at each
other and said,
"This can't be true,
this completely contradicts
his previous testimony."
He was contradicting
himself massively doing that.
I think he gradually
realized just how much
he was contradicting himself
in that moment.
In addition to that,
he told us very openly
that he had also taken
a look into the locker room,
even though there was
absolutely no reason to do so.
We thought that was
rather strange of him.
"Why did you open the locker
room on the third floor
during your first patrol even
though none of your superiors
had instructed you
to check that room before?"
"It was pure coincidence
that I opened that room.
I was curious."
"Thomas S. reinforces
the reasonable suspicion
that he was not telling
the truth to the police
and therefore
is considered a suspect
in this investigation."
Maybe he didn't want
to look around the corner.
It's possible.
Then they came over again.
This time with a search warrant.
"We need to search
your house, sir."
Then I had to freeze
before them,
and they searched me.
The senior LKA officer
went and checked
downstairs with my wife.
Then they checked
the greenhouses.
Then they checked the shack.
They checked the carport.
-Don't forget your rain barrels.
-And the rain barrels, yeah.
I was so angry
that they were doing this.
I even opened the lid and said,
"You can take
a look in here, too.
There's no gold coin inside,
just rain water
that I'm collecting."
[Katrin]
We found nothing at his house,
and we were stuck
for the time being.
[André] But then something
completely unexpected happened.
[dramatic music playing]
We suddenly received information
from an informant handler.
An informant handler is someone
who manages
confidential informants,
people granted anonymity
by the prosecution,
and provides us
with inside information.
I will tell you this,
when a lot of people
are involved in a theft
INVESTIGATOR - BERLIN STATE
CRIMINAL POLICE OFFICE
not everyone keeps
their mouth shut.
Someone always ends up
telling you
about all of their successes
in their business.
[Katrin] We can assume that
this theft was handled by
a very small,
tight-knit group of people.
And if that's the case,
and someone so close to them
went and told the police
about it,
well, that's very unusual.
I don't know,
maybe he just wanted
to make himself look important,
or thought "I didn't get a cut,"
or "I set it up
and got nothing out of it,
so I'm going to testify."
[Katrin] There are
so many different reasons
why people contact the police.
But surely everyone
has good reason
to keep their names
out of the investigation
when there's this
kind of organized structure.
[investigator]
Of course they're scared.
They know
who they're dealing with.
They're often in the thick of it
or at least, very close to it.
That's life-threatening,
in the truest sense of the word.
[investigator]
The confidential informant
could possibly name
several persons
from the Remmo family
who had been inside the museum
on the night of the theft,
and some others
who had been waiting outside
by the transport vehicle.
Most of these guys
from this family
are career criminals.
They make their living from it,
and they honestly
make a pretty good living.
They take whatever they want.
Regardless of the consequences.
It's a quagmire, a quagmire.
[music continues]
There's that internal rivalry
between the families.
That leads to enormous pressure.
The Al-Zein family
have a Ferrari now.
Then the Remmo family
wants two Ferraris.
'Cause of that, the Omeirats
want four Ferraris.
And that's how they
all goad each other.
What were you in prison for?
We went into the Mercedes
dealership to steal some cars.
-Yeah.
-And while we were fleeing,
I hit a police officer
with one of them.
Uh-huh.
And the second time,
I shot someone.
-You shot him?
-I did.
-Yeah.
-But I missed him.
-Uh-huh.
-They were pretty far away,
and it was just because
I was frightened,
-I just shot in their direction.
-Yeah.
Crazy.
[André] The ten named suspects
that we received
who happened to be
from the Remmo clan
were all known offenders
who fit our profile
for this theft.
[dramatic music playing]
[Katrin]
It's extremely difficult
to keep them from noticing
our investigations
because they have experience
with the police
and know our methods.
They even know
what some of the faces
of our investigators look like.
[André] We kept hoping
that eventually
the wrong words might slip out,
or that they'd lead us
straight to one of the places
where they'd have
taken the coin.
The suspects know that
their phones are being tapped,
not only because
of these proceedings,
but also from other proceedings
that they're currently facing.
And phone surveillance
isn't easy.
People like you and me
buy our phones in our names
and keep the number
for ten years,
but that's not what
these sorts of people do.
They switch phones every day
to not get caught.
They might switch the SIM card
or they might switch both.
And for each new number
they get,
we have to apply
for a new court order,
we need to see
the investigating judge
and we need a new warrant.
It's a game of cat-and-mouse.
[upbeat music playing]
It's always about who's faster.
And because we need
to follow law and order,
most of the time,
they're already
a step ahead of us.
[André] Denis W. didn't seem
as experienced
with the police as the others,
so he didn't realize
his phone was tapped.
Because we were able to tap it,
we overheard
that he'd bought himself
a valuable gold necklace.
[Mohamed] Men aren't allowed
to wear gold in Islam.
But I know that some do it
to express their status.
Showing off to others
that someone is
worth his weight in gold,
so to speak.
Him showing that off?
That's just consumerism.
[dramatic music playing]
[Omar] Yeah, that looks sick!
But have you seen this one?
This is gold, you can see
the number at the back.
The necklace is gold
and this ring too.
Yeah, one or two rings
are missing,
a bracelet and my wristwatch.
But we're keeping
it simple today.
Today, we're keeping it low-key.
-Should we take a selfie?
-Yeah, let's go, let's go.
[André] He clearly didn't expect
his phone to be tapped,
so we even heard him talking
about some financial means
that he suddenly had
at his disposal.
He suddenly said he had to get
rid of a hundred-thousand euros.
[André]
He wanted to open a store.
To invest the money
as soon as possible.
[Katrin] In addition to that,
we also learnt that Denis W.
was a very close friend
of a member of the Remmo family.
Apparently,
they went to school together.
[suspenseful music playing]
And that was the point
where we thought
it couldn't be
a coincidence anymore.
Yeah! [cheers]
[laughs]
[Thomas]
I dreamt about it at night.
I saw myself walking
through the museum.
At night. And
realized there was someone
walking behind me.
But I never dared to turn around
and look at them in the dream.
I thought I was about to get
a knife in my back or something.
[laughing]
I didn't know
what was going to happen to me.
Are they going
to frame me for this?
You always have one foot
in jail, you know.
[laughing]
[ambient music playing]
[André] We got a tip
that the coin or parts of it
might be in
the Neukölln neighborhood,
stored in the basement
of a convenience store
that belonged to the Remmo clan.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Katrin] But the Remmo family
didn't own
just one store in Neukölln.
So we had to find out
which one was the right store.
Which one had the coin?
When we were looking, we spotted
W. Remmo on the scene,
which suddenly gave us
the feeling
that we were very close.
[police officer speaks
foreign language]
[credits music playing]
RE-ENACTMENTS.
SOME PEOPLE'S VOICES
WERE DISGUISED
TO PROTECT THEIR ANONYMITY.
[tense music playing]
It's almost three years
after the spectacular theft
of a 100-kilo gold coin
from the Bode Museum in Berlin.
[reporter] One of the most
sensational trials in years
is drawing large crowds.
There's still no trace
of the multi-million
euro coin.
[Katrin]
The investigative pressure
was truly enormous.
Not only because
of the immense value
of what was stolen,
but also because the act
was so rife with symbolism.
The sheer act of walking
into the Bode Museum,
located right
in the heart of Berlin,
and so brazenly provoking
law enforcement was audacious.
[Sharo] They used a wheelbarrow.
Nobody got threatened,
nobody was killed or injured.
Nothing, nobody was harmed.
That's awesome.
[camera shutter clicks]
[reporter 1]
What we know for certain,
is that this theft
is so spectacular,
it'll undoubtedly
go down in history.
[Cathrin] They stole
a multimillion-euro coin
made of pure gold.
[reporter 2] These thieves
have gained attention
through their
impressive heists.
The culprits are members
of the Remmo Clan.
-The Remmo Clan.
-The Remmo Clan.
WHERE'S THE LUMP, YOU CHUMPS?
THIEVES CAUGHT, COIN GONE
This was all about maintaining
a special position
compared to the other families.
THE REPUBLIC'S
MOST AUDACIOUS CLAN
[Burkhard]
The Remmos are saying,
"We are able to fool the state
and bring such valuable items
into our possession."
[music continues]
Honestly, I would have loved
to have been there
just for the story alone.
I don't want any of the loot.
I just want to be able to say,
"Yeah, so then we walked
along the railroad tracks"
Just for the story.
EPISODE 1
THE ACCOMPLICE
[Cathrin] If it's true
that silence is golden,
then I shouldn't be
telling you
where an estimated
35 million euros
are being kept right now.
But not making it public
would be quite a pity,
because never before
has so much money,
on such a gigantic scale,
been stored anywhere
outside of a bank vault.
A coin that doesn't fit
into any wallet,
produced to get into
the Guinness
Book of World Records,
might cause gold fever
among visitors
of the Bode Museum.
[dramatic music playing]
[Katrin] It was just
a very, very large lump of gold.
1 MILLION DOLLARS 2007
ELIZABETH II
If you publicly brag
about something like this
in this way,
then you have to expect
that people will get the idea
to come try and steal it.
BURKHARD BENECKEN
LAWYER
[dramatic music playing]
DAY OF THE BURGLARY
MARCH 3, 2017
At the time,
I was the only security guard
at the Bode Museum the night
the gold coin was stolen.
THOMAS SCHNEIDER
SECURITY GUARD
The night of the crime
was actually
my very first shift on my own.
It was my first shift,
so of course I was nervous.
There was only one person
who was responsible
for the security
of the entire museum.
In my opinion,
I think two colleagues
should have been there,
at least.
[music continues]
The Bode Museum
is a rather large museum.
There are hundreds of rooms
and exhibition galleries.
It's built like a labyrinth.
To be honest, I was scared too.
[Katrin]
Every museum typically has
what is called
perimeter security.
It's an alarm that goes off
when any window is opened.
[machine whirring]
So why did the alarm not go off?
[tense music playing]
[glass shatters]
[music continues]
The thief's couldn't care less
that this coin was
a work of art.
They simply threw the coin
out of the window,
and it fell right
onto the railroad tracks.
KATRIN FAUS
SENIOR PROSECUTOR
Then they put it
in a wheelbarrow.
In Berlin, nobody cares
when three dark figures
walk along the railroad tracks
at night.
It's not an uncommon sight.
[suspenseful music playing]
They tell themselves
that the sentence
won't be that severe,
so they factor that in.
It's perfectly normal.
AHMAD MOHAMMED
BODYGUARD
It's just a coin.
So what?
Property damage, theft--
what have we done, seriously?
This might sound
ridiculous to you, but
that's how they're thinking.
Let's be real.
The theft was the best thing
that could have
ever happened to that coin!
MOHAMED CHAHROUR
ACTOR & AUTHOR "CLANLAND"
Because now everyone's heard
of that piece of art.
[siren blaring]
[tense music playing]
A flustered security guard
called saying,
"The coin's gone."
HANS-JÜRGEN HARRAS
HEAD OF SECURITY
I really thought that
if someone had just broken
the showcase open,
then surely they'd still
be inside the Bode Museum
with the gold coin.
At least I had hoped they were.
[music continues]
[both grunting]
[thud]
[man grunts]
[panting]
Okay, the officers are coming.
Then we looked
at the video recordings
and noticed that a car
without its headlights on
was driving along
the river bank,
then they turned them on
suddenly and quickly drove away.
[engine roaring]
So I thought, "Oh, shoot.
We won't be getting
that one back."
[panting]
[Katrin] We found items
that helped us determine
where the robbers climbed
in and out of the museum.
There was a furniture dolly
that you would normally use
when you're moving.
We also found various
scuff marks on the wall
where the dolly had probably
scraped up against
during the frenzy.
There were wedges at the doors.
There was a wheelbarrow left
on the the S-Bahn tracks.
A rope was tied to the bridge
that leads to Monbijou Park.
And that's what made us realize
that they had entered
through the window
from the railroad tracks
and left the same way.
And that they rappelled
from there.
POLIZEI
[Katrin] Our first thought was
that the person who was working
as the security guard
at the museum
during the night of the crime
must have a connection
to the perpetrators.
Because how is it possible
that the security guard
didn't notice anything going on?
You would need to know
at what time
he would be patrolling
the building,
so you can figure out
which window has to stay open.
Plus, they made a lot of noise.
[Thomas] Then they interrogated
me for two hours.
About where I had walked
and everything.
Again and again, they asked,
"Didn't you hear anything?"
And he was very
open about it.
[Thomas] It was after
three o'clock, approximately.
So, it was pitch dark
except for my flashlight.
And then I patrolled
the building.
I had to go down
into the basement as well.
And you can't hear anything
down there.
[Katrin] It seemed
very improbable to us
that he hadn't seen anything
during the theft at all.
[laughing]
I feel like a king!
[laughter]
-Let's go!
-Let's go, man! Whoo!
[upbeat music playing]
BURO
[sink running]
[ominous music playing]
[André] It was immediately
on social media.
On the news that night,
in the press the next day.
ANDRÉ BLUHM
DETECTIVE CHIEF INSPECTOR
Everything was about our case.
The break-in at the Bode Museum
and the theft
of the hundred-kilo gold coin.
[reporter]
Last night, strangers stole
an exceptionally large
gold coin.
According to the
National Museums in Berlin,
the piece was on loan
to the Collection
from a private owner.
Crooks have made off
with a huge Canadian gold coin
worth millions.
5.3 million dollars.
The police say
the suspects used a ladder
to get from the tracks
into a third-floor window,
which wasn't alarmed.
They stole it from a museum,
of all places.
You need stricter
security measures
for all of the artwork
in the basement alone.
SHARO
EX-CRIMINAL AND INFLUENCER
It made me chuckle, honestly.
No, seriously, I laughed.
[upbeat music playing]
[Sharo] It was tempting to just
carry the thing out of there.
I think it would be
just as tempting
for all of you
out there watching.
[indistinct chatter]
[Sharo] Hey, Ra'is!
-What's up?
-Salam aleikum.
Wallah alhamdulillah.
You look great,
I missed you, bro.
-How have you been?
-I'm good. How're you?
Habibi, everything's good.
Well, listen, I don't think
-what they did was good.
-Yeah.
And generally,
that the gold coin was stolen.
-Yeah.
-[Ra'is] But nobody died,
-nobody was injured as you said.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They made money. Man
These guys just walked
straight in and out.
-Exactly.
-I was at home when I heard.
In the evenings, I watch
the "Tagesschau" news,
I'm well-integrated,
I'm German, you know?
And then it came up.
A 100-kilo gold coin was stolen.
[reporter] So the thieves must
have been very well-prepared
when they entered the museum
last night to steal it.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Sharo]
I already kind of suspected
that an Arab family
might be behind it.
That they were the ones who just
simply carried off the coin.
The robberies at the KaDeWe
department store
were well-known too.
[upbeat music playing]
[Sharo]
They were quite audacious
with that one as well.
They just went in there
in broad daylight.
Within a minute and a half,
bang, bang, bang.
It's like a signature.
This audacity.
Like, "I'm taking this."
I had the impression
that was why the press
were so taken by it.
Because everyone romanticized it
in a Robin Hood kind of way.
Everyone had to admit
that it was kind of cool.
The general public noticeably
sympathized with the offenders.
But for an investigator,
that only fuels you.
We're not going to put up
with that.
[pensive music playing]
[camera shutter clicks]
[Katrin]
We focused on the window
the perpetrators had used
after we determined that
it was their point of entry
and escape at the museum.
We also found out
that the building's
perimeter security
had actually been compromised
at that one exact window.
Too many false alarms
had been set off,
so the alarm
on that specific window
had been deactivated.
In the '90s,
they started replacing
all of the windows
in the museum.
But the window through
which the break-in happened
hadn't been addressed.
Even though I'd urged them
to replace it.
[Katrin] We were
absolutely astonished
that a museum displaying
such valuable items
would have such
a massive security gap.
For a long time, there was only
ever a makeshift solution
put in place for this,
which was an additional
safety glass pane
in front of that window,
bolted to it from the outside.
[André] It left us
investigators speechless
that a defective window
that would've been known
about for years,
had never been dealt with
due to bureaucracy.
One could say
that's typical for Berlin.
[upbeat music playing]
[Sharo] If red tape was
in fact the problem,
then application forms here,
unapproved costs there,
and other formalities
were the reason
why the window wasn't secured.
That's not just
typical for Berlin,
that's typical for Germany.
That upsets me a lot more
as a German citizen
who pays loads in taxes.
They could have installed
a nice alarm system or a grate
in front of the window
or God knows what.
Then we wouldn't have had
that "mishap".
[chuckles]
Yeah.
[Katrin] One part
of the investigation was
to try and find any recordings
from the security cameras
in the area.
Our big break was
the security camera
placed at Hackescher Markt
station.
[Hans-Jürgen]
The distance from the station
to the Bode Museum
is somewhere around
250 to 300 meters.
ORIGINAL FOOTAGE
NIGHT OF THE CRIME
[André] They walked
along the platform.
One of them had
a distinctive way of walking.
[Katrin] They were wearing
dark clothes.
We know they were male.
And it was obvious they knew
that there would be cameras.
They stepped down
onto the railroad tracks.
And they never came back.
[tense music playing]
10 DAYS BEFORE THE BURGLARY
[André] A railroad employee
contacted us and said
that during his night shift
on March 17th,
he found a wheelbarrow
on the tracks.
So we looked through
the security footage
from ten days before the heist.
[André] And lo and behold,
we could see two individuals
that moved similarly
to the robbers on March 27th.
But they returned
to the platform
after about 20 minutes.
[Katrin] In the end,
we had three videos.
Those videos made it clear to us
just how meticulously
they had staked the place out
and how professionally
they had prepared themselves.
The videos gave us
our first look at the offenders,
but nobody recognized them.
[Katrin]
But it would later turn out
that these videos
we had gathered
were actually
of crucial importance.
Our next step
in the investigation was
to find out who already knew
about the security oversight
at the museum.
Besides the security guard
on duty that night,
we checked
all the security staff.
Not only Thomas S.
And we came across
one security guard
who had been on duty
on all the nights
that there had been activity
happening on the tracks.
And that was Denis W.
[André] Denis W.
was one of the security guards
who worked at the Bode Museum
before the theft took place.
He also had his own locker
in the locker room.
The same room
with the defective window
that the offenders
entered through.
[dramatic music playing]
[Hans-Jürgen] Denis W. was
employed by a subcontractor.
I didn't know him personally.
According
to what I heard later on,
he only worked
at the Bode Museum
for about three weeks.
[music continues]
[Katrin] We found
during our investigation
that he had once attracted
some attention
when he was
at a home improvement store
where he was seen
grabbing a crowbar
and trying it out
on a steel cabinet.
For a museum's
security staff member,
that's an unusual hobby
to be seen doing.
They're not security guards
in my eyes.
I'm sorry.
In the past, you needed
a master's certificate
or some sort of qualification.
Nowadays, anyone can become
a security guard.
[pensive music playing]
[Katrin]
Additionally, we found out that,
until recently,
there was
an ongoing investigation
against Denis W.
[André] A few weeks
before the theft,
a few colleagues of mine
had watched a person
steal a license plate.
They saw them
drive to a gas station
and fuel the vehicle.
They drove off without paying
and threw the plate away.
[dramatic music playing]
[whimsical music playing]
[André] My colleagues found
that Denis W.
had typical break-in tools
in his car.
They also found a map
of the Bode Museum in his car,
that had all of these
handwritten notes
scribbled on it.
[Katrin] The officer
who apprehended him
told us that
the defendant's phone
wouldn't stop ringing
the whole time he was with him.
[phone ringing]
[officer] What have we got here?
[Katrin] Then he got a text.
"I don't have time today."
Sent by A. Remmo.
The Remmo family was not
exactly unknown in Berlin.
So when that name
came up on his phone,
it was quite a big deal for us.
[indistinct radio chatter]
Remmo clan in trouble!
Drug raid at a Remmo shop
Remmo offspring (21)
Remmo clan
[André] When I got to work
the next morning
and heard the news,
it made me think,
maybe this is bigger
than we thought.
The fact that the Remmo clan
was somehow suddenly
involved in our case
was completely new
and unexpected to us.
I hadn't had anything to do
with the Remmo family
until then.
But the Art Crime Unit
was in charge
because it's theft
from a museum.
We as the Art Crime Unit
are known as "the artists"
within the police force.
I knew a lot of those clan names
from the stories
I saw in the press.
I had read about them
in the news quite often
and always thought,
"What's going on in this city?"
[Katrin] After the name
"A. Remmo" had come up,
we naturally assumed
that we weren't only looking
for just one or three culprits
for this crime.
We knew that there would be
a whole eco-system behind it.
[dramatic music playing]
That actually gave me
additional motivation
for the investigation.
The prospect of having them
as our adversary.
[Omar] Cheers, boys. Drink up.
When I was involved
in the criminal world,
I used to socialize a lot
with other extended families.
I really enjoyed
being in contact with them.
I wanted to be part of it, too.
I thought of one guy
from my village
who could have been
capable of the theft.
He's the only one who I thought
could've been so audacious.
[upbeat music playing]
That village, Rajdiye,
is located in Turkeye,
near Mardin.
This place is centuries old.
People only speak Arabic there.
And only a few kilometers away,
people only speak Turkish.
And that's what gives us
our identity.
That's what makes us
Mardellis so special.
[Burkhard] I still think
it's fascinating
that most Arab extended families
that we know from the media
all basically
come from one village.
A village that currently has
about two-thousand inhabitants.
I realized that pretty early on
because so many of my clients
somehow knew each other.
[Ahmad] A good friend of mine
always says to me,
"Come on, I'll take you
with me to Mardin,
so you can finally
visit your ancestral home."
Back then, there were
fewer than fifty families,
whereas today,
I'd say there's about
a hundred-thousand of us
here in Germany.
And of course, that leads
to a strong allegiance.
[laughs] It makes me laugh
because this reminds me so much
of Asterix and Obelix,
because they're also
from a small village.
And the Romans
still can't get them.
If one tiny village can produce
so much power like that,
well, then yeah, hats off
to you, congratulations.
[dramatic music playing]
I know so many clan members
because they all
supported me back then
when I was just starting
my career working in security.
They supported me
through it all,
so that no one
else would get in my way.
Because these people
saw me as family.
And I always had to go
to the police and say to them,
"I don't have
anything to do with that.
What do you want from me?"
I was always
on the brink of criminality
to get where I am now,
to become one of the most
successful bodyguards.
It's as simple as that.
What about the others?
Like, do they need
people there or not?
Sylvester Stallone.
John Travolta and Danny DeVito.
I would say
that she is my favorite friend,
Pamela Anderson.
She was really cool, very smart.
At some point,
I knew I had to get away
from those criminal
family clans,
even though to me,
they were my family.
I had to be able to stand
on my own two feet.
[ominous music playing]
Those Kurdish-Lebanese
families, the Mardellis,
were all related to each other,
however distantly,
be it the Omeirats,
the Al-Zeins, the Remmos,
in one way or another,
we're all connected somehow.
[Katrin] The name A. Remmo
and the individuals associated
with him was of course
a substantial clue
for us with this museum heist.
But what we really needed
was the connection
to the security leak
at the museum.
[pensive music playing]
[André] We're talking about
a puzzle here,
a mosaic that comes
together piece by piece.
So to make this happen,
we worked with
the public prosecutor's office
and started observing Denis W,
and tapping his phones.
[Katrin] Maybe someone they knew
tipped them off,
or maybe they had
an additional accomplice
from inside the museum.
Because even though
there was no perimeter security,
there was definitely
internal security,
and that can only be deactivated
for a short time.
It just so happened to go down
when the security guard
was patrolling the building.
[suspenseful music playing]
[André] The offenders
must have been prepared
to be discovered by the guard.
Unless he was part
of the gang himself.
We couldn't rule out
that the security guard
was working together
with the robbers.
[Allonge] We have to consider
the possibility
that the security guard
on duty that night
might have noticed something
on the security cameras,
but then got scared
and hid himself somewhere.
-That would have been
understandable.
-Yeah, he was.
[Hans-Jürgen] There are many
plausible scenarios.
For example,
if they knew he was working
as a security guard
at the museum,
they could've blackmailed him.
So he can never
be fully excluded
from the list of suspects.
We went to the railroad tracks
where the offenders
might have stood,
and we checked if they would
have been able to see
the security guard
move inside the museum
from the outside.
[Katrin] It was dark
inside the museum.
And then we could see
the lights turn on one by one
as the security guard
made his rounds.
So we could see exactly, okay,
now he's there,
and now you can go in.
It was clear to see
from the outside.
There was a prosecutor
with them, as well.
They said, "There's something
else we need to clear up."
[André] We were interested
to see how he'd react.
[Katrin]
And he seemed very calm.
He was the friendly neighbor
next door.
And then they started to
go upstairs where the coin
had been displayed.
And they took me
downstairs with them.
He stuck to his story,
"I didn't notice
anything that night.
I didn't see the offenders,
I didn't hear anything."
Could that really be true?
My colleague went into the room
where the coin
had been displayed.
And then, from upstairs,
they made noise.
Was he telling the truth?
Could he really
not hear the sound of glass
shattering from the basement?
And it was true.
He couldn't have heard that
from the basement.
So because of that,
we once again made him show us
the route that he had
claimed to have walked
in the first interrogation.
And to our surprise,
he suddenly showed us
a completely different route.
We looked at each
other and said,
"This can't be true,
this completely contradicts
his previous testimony."
He was contradicting
himself massively doing that.
I think he gradually
realized just how much
he was contradicting himself
in that moment.
In addition to that,
he told us very openly
that he had also taken
a look into the locker room,
even though there was
absolutely no reason to do so.
We thought that was
rather strange of him.
"Why did you open the locker
room on the third floor
during your first patrol even
though none of your superiors
had instructed you
to check that room before?"
"It was pure coincidence
that I opened that room.
I was curious."
"Thomas S. reinforces
the reasonable suspicion
that he was not telling
the truth to the police
and therefore
is considered a suspect
in this investigation."
Maybe he didn't want
to look around the corner.
It's possible.
Then they came over again.
This time with a search warrant.
"We need to search
your house, sir."
Then I had to freeze
before them,
and they searched me.
The senior LKA officer
went and checked
downstairs with my wife.
Then they checked
the greenhouses.
Then they checked the shack.
They checked the carport.
-Don't forget your rain barrels.
-And the rain barrels, yeah.
I was so angry
that they were doing this.
I even opened the lid and said,
"You can take
a look in here, too.
There's no gold coin inside,
just rain water
that I'm collecting."
[Katrin]
We found nothing at his house,
and we were stuck
for the time being.
[André] But then something
completely unexpected happened.
[dramatic music playing]
We suddenly received information
from an informant handler.
An informant handler is someone
who manages
confidential informants,
people granted anonymity
by the prosecution,
and provides us
with inside information.
I will tell you this,
when a lot of people
are involved in a theft
INVESTIGATOR - BERLIN STATE
CRIMINAL POLICE OFFICE
not everyone keeps
their mouth shut.
Someone always ends up
telling you
about all of their successes
in their business.
[Katrin] We can assume that
this theft was handled by
a very small,
tight-knit group of people.
And if that's the case,
and someone so close to them
went and told the police
about it,
well, that's very unusual.
I don't know,
maybe he just wanted
to make himself look important,
or thought "I didn't get a cut,"
or "I set it up
and got nothing out of it,
so I'm going to testify."
[Katrin] There are
so many different reasons
why people contact the police.
But surely everyone
has good reason
to keep their names
out of the investigation
when there's this
kind of organized structure.
[investigator]
Of course they're scared.
They know
who they're dealing with.
They're often in the thick of it
or at least, very close to it.
That's life-threatening,
in the truest sense of the word.
[investigator]
The confidential informant
could possibly name
several persons
from the Remmo family
who had been inside the museum
on the night of the theft,
and some others
who had been waiting outside
by the transport vehicle.
Most of these guys
from this family
are career criminals.
They make their living from it,
and they honestly
make a pretty good living.
They take whatever they want.
Regardless of the consequences.
It's a quagmire, a quagmire.
[music continues]
There's that internal rivalry
between the families.
That leads to enormous pressure.
The Al-Zein family
have a Ferrari now.
Then the Remmo family
wants two Ferraris.
'Cause of that, the Omeirats
want four Ferraris.
And that's how they
all goad each other.
What were you in prison for?
We went into the Mercedes
dealership to steal some cars.
-Yeah.
-And while we were fleeing,
I hit a police officer
with one of them.
Uh-huh.
And the second time,
I shot someone.
-You shot him?
-I did.
-Yeah.
-But I missed him.
-Uh-huh.
-They were pretty far away,
and it was just because
I was frightened,
-I just shot in their direction.
-Yeah.
Crazy.
[André] The ten named suspects
that we received
who happened to be
from the Remmo clan
were all known offenders
who fit our profile
for this theft.
[dramatic music playing]
[Katrin]
It's extremely difficult
to keep them from noticing
our investigations
because they have experience
with the police
and know our methods.
They even know
what some of the faces
of our investigators look like.
[André] We kept hoping
that eventually
the wrong words might slip out,
or that they'd lead us
straight to one of the places
where they'd have
taken the coin.
The suspects know that
their phones are being tapped,
not only because
of these proceedings,
but also from other proceedings
that they're currently facing.
And phone surveillance
isn't easy.
People like you and me
buy our phones in our names
and keep the number
for ten years,
but that's not what
these sorts of people do.
They switch phones every day
to not get caught.
They might switch the SIM card
or they might switch both.
And for each new number
they get,
we have to apply
for a new court order,
we need to see
the investigating judge
and we need a new warrant.
It's a game of cat-and-mouse.
[upbeat music playing]
It's always about who's faster.
And because we need
to follow law and order,
most of the time,
they're already
a step ahead of us.
[André] Denis W. didn't seem
as experienced
with the police as the others,
so he didn't realize
his phone was tapped.
Because we were able to tap it,
we overheard
that he'd bought himself
a valuable gold necklace.
[Mohamed] Men aren't allowed
to wear gold in Islam.
But I know that some do it
to express their status.
Showing off to others
that someone is
worth his weight in gold,
so to speak.
Him showing that off?
That's just consumerism.
[dramatic music playing]
[Omar] Yeah, that looks sick!
But have you seen this one?
This is gold, you can see
the number at the back.
The necklace is gold
and this ring too.
Yeah, one or two rings
are missing,
a bracelet and my wristwatch.
But we're keeping
it simple today.
Today, we're keeping it low-key.
-Should we take a selfie?
-Yeah, let's go, let's go.
[André] He clearly didn't expect
his phone to be tapped,
so we even heard him talking
about some financial means
that he suddenly had
at his disposal.
He suddenly said he had to get
rid of a hundred-thousand euros.
[André]
He wanted to open a store.
To invest the money
as soon as possible.
[Katrin] In addition to that,
we also learnt that Denis W.
was a very close friend
of a member of the Remmo family.
Apparently,
they went to school together.
[suspenseful music playing]
And that was the point
where we thought
it couldn't be
a coincidence anymore.
Yeah! [cheers]
[laughs]
[Thomas]
I dreamt about it at night.
I saw myself walking
through the museum.
At night. And
realized there was someone
walking behind me.
But I never dared to turn around
and look at them in the dream.
I thought I was about to get
a knife in my back or something.
[laughing]
I didn't know
what was going to happen to me.
Are they going
to frame me for this?
You always have one foot
in jail, you know.
[laughing]
[ambient music playing]
[André] We got a tip
that the coin or parts of it
might be in
the Neukölln neighborhood,
stored in the basement
of a convenience store
that belonged to the Remmo clan.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Katrin] But the Remmo family
didn't own
just one store in Neukölln.
So we had to find out
which one was the right store.
Which one had the coin?
When we were looking, we spotted
W. Remmo on the scene,
which suddenly gave us
the feeling
that we were very close.
[police officer speaks
foreign language]
[credits music playing]