Authorities have searched properties in the German city of Essen, in what security sources say are raids linked to a heist at one of the country’s most opulent museums. The public prosecutor’s office in the city of Dresden – home to the Green Vault museum, which was robbed in November 2019 – confirmed that they had conducted raids in Essen but did not comment further. Forces from the eastern state of Saxony, of which Dresden is the capital, and the western state of North Rhine Westphalia, where Essen is located, were deployed for the operation, the sources said. On November 25, 2019, two thiev…