Overview
- Füchse Berlin says the silver winners’ plate engraved with past champions, reported stolen in November, turned up in a basement storage room at the club.
- The club believes thieves hid it there to retrieve later but stayed away once media coverage raised the risk of being caught.
- Police have taken the plate as evidence, so the team cannot display or handle it for now.
- Investigators had suspected the trophy was melted after a January raid produced a silver bar, a prosecutor’s office spokesman told Sport Bild.
- The Handball-Bundesliga canceled a replacement order after the recovery, and prior estimates put the plate’s value at about €12,000 in 2014.