German police recover jewellery stolen in Fermoy raid

PART of a €80,000 haul of jewellery stolen from a shop in county Cork has been seized by police in Germany.

The jewellery was discovered in a Dublin-registered car which was stopped on an autobahn near the Austrian border on February 4, just five days after the robbery took place at Barbers jewellers in Fermoy.

Two foreign nationals in the car were arrested and German police also recovered a quantity of drugs after searching the vehicle.