Homes and jewellery shops raided in search for missing 100kg gold coin

The coin has an estimated value of 3.75 million euro(Marcel Mettelsiefen/dpa/AP)

Berlin police have raided homes and jewellery shops on suspicion they could be connected to the theft of a huge 100kg (220lb) Canadian gold coin from a museum in the German capital.

The coin, dubbed the Big Maple Leaf and with an estimated value of 3.75 million euro (£3.36 million), was stolen from Bode Museum in Berlin in 2017 and has not yet been recovered.