Five Germans handed jail sentence for Green Vault jewel heist

A defendant arrives in the courtroom of the Higher Regional Court before the verdict over a jewellery heist on the Green Vault museum in Dresden's Royal Palace, in Dresden, Germany on May 16, 2023. Sebastian Kahnert/Pool via REUTERS

DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) - A German court on Tuesday sentenced five men to several years behind bars for their involvement in a jewel heist in 2019 at a museum in Dresden which houses one of Europe's greatest art collections.

The pieces stolen from the break-in at the Gruenes Gewoelbe (Green Vault) museum in Dresden contained more than 4,300 diamonds with an estimated value of more than 113 million euros.