the culprits behind the hatton garden raid may have carried out a similarly audacious burglary just two years earlier in berlin , it has emerged .
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 gang , who fled the bank with diamonds , gold and silver worth more than £ 8.3 m , have never been found .
the culprits behind the hatton garden raid may have carried out a similarly audacious burglary just two years earlier in berlin , it has emerged .