Men jailed over heist in which jewels worth more than €100m were stolen

The men laid a fire just before the break-in to cut the power supply to street lights outside the museum, and also set fire to a car in a nearby garage before fleeing to Berlin.

A German court has convicted five men over the theft of 18th-century jewels from a museum in Dresden (Sebastian Kahnert/dpa via AP, File)

A German court on Tuesday convicted five men over the theft of 18th-century jewels worth more than €100 million from a Dresden museum in 2019.

They were sentenced to prison sentences of between four years and four months and six years and three months, German news agency dpa reported. One defendant was acquitted.