police are investigating links between the hatton garden gems heist and a strikingly similar raid on a berlin bank two years ago .
in a case which has strikingly similar traits to the £ 60m heist in london , thieves targeted 294 security vaults during a break-in at the volksbank in steglitz , berlin , in january 2013 .
the culprits behind the hatton garden raid may have carried out a similarly audacious burglary just two years earlier in berlin , it has emerged .