Jewellery burglary suspects remain unidentified as police review footage

No one has been arrested and police have no suspects in the burglary of the Gullsmiðinn jewellery store in Mjódd, mbl.is reported. Two men are believed to have carried out the break-in.

Police are reviewing footage from cameras inside the shop, in Mjódd and nearby. Heimir Ríkarðsson, an assistant chief superintendent with the Metropolitan Police, said investigators had a large volume of material to examine. The men’s faces were not visible on the shop’s surveillance cameras.

The burglary took place at about 1.30am on Monday. The men are believed to have avoided laser beams to steal jewellery, then left the shop and went back in to take more. The value of the stolen items is estimated at about 30 million krónur.

Ríkarðsson said the break-in appeared to have been carefully planned. He said it would not surprise him if the case were linked to organised crime, but he could not say whether the thieves would try to take the jewellery out of the country or melt it down.