Dramatic footage captures burglars smash open cases to steal jewellery worth up to €1billion from a museum .<br /><br />The security clip shows the crooks repeatedly batter through the cabinet in The Green Vault in Dresden, east Germany, today.<br /><br /><br />The raiders, are seen wearing torches on their heads, swinging axes at the glass cases.<br /><br />Two black-clothed burglars are pictured running into the dark vault and targeting different sections of the secured cabinets.<br /><br />In one of the world's biggest-ever heists, the hooded thugs also switched off a power supply and sneaked into the building through a tiny hole.<br /><br />They got away with three sets of 18th-century jewellery and now police believe the raid is linked to a huge coin theft more than two years ago.
