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The “Big Maple Leaf” gold coin is seen in a Dec. 8, 2010, file photo. Thieves stole the multi-million-dollar-valued item from a Berlin museum on March 27, 2017. Marcel Mettelsiefen/AFP/Getty Images
Four men in Germany are on trial for the spectacular theft of a gold coin so massive a wheelbarrow was used to make off with the loot.
The suspects are accused of stealing the Canadian “Big Maple Leaf” coin—worth millions—from Berlin’s Bode Museum in March 2017, in a brazen scheme that made global headlines.
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
