Yes, there is a 100kg gold coin. Yes, it was stolen (4 guys with a wheelbarrow … srsly)

A wheelbarrow, rope and ladder (who need high tech?) say prosecutors in the trial of the four men.

  • 100 kg Canadian "Big Maple Leaf"
  • apparently since melted down
  • stolen from the Bode Museum in Berlin in March of 2017

Prosecutors say three of the suspects broke into the museum through an upstairs window and used a ladder, wheelbarrow and rope to extract the coin from a bullet-proof glass. The fourth suspect was a museum guard accused of helping them.

LOL.

Here is the newspaper report for more (don't go getting any ideas, K?)

Grainy security camera footage is so hard to make out sometimes.

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