Post by account_disabled on Feb 15, 2024 4:17:56 GMT -5
Robbing a bank is, along with winning the lottery and inheriting a fortune from some unknown relative, one of the most unlikely and ridiculous ways to become a millionaire overnight. And big robberies shouldn't be as simple as they appear in the movies... Or should they? There are a handful of cases that are as impressive as they are well executed, in which a seemingly impossible robbery ended up going well. Although the perpetrators were arrested in all the robberies on this list, in many the stolen loot has not been found.
The robbery of the century: Antwerp Diamond Center robbery
On February 15, 2003, there was nothing to Algeria Email List suggest that the city of diamonds was about to become the center of attention. Somewhere in Antwerp, the Italian Leonardo Notarbartolo and his men had everything ready to commit what has gone down in history as “the robbery of the century.”
Notarbartolo knows the Antwerp Diamond Center inside out, as he has posed as an Antwerp jeweler and has been planning the robbery of what is supposedly one of the safest buildings in the world for months.
The thieves faced more than ten levels of security, including a two-foot-thick steel door. They also managed to go unnoticed by the security cameras. Nothing failed and they managed to get hold of their loot: 100 of the 189 boxes in the security vault, with contents valued at 100 million euros.
Each of the 189 safe deposit boxes had a specific key and a combination with more than 17,000 possibilities. To this day, how they managed to carry out the robbery remains a mystery.
The robbery of the century: Antwerp Diamond Center robbery
On February 15, 2003, there was nothing to Algeria Email List suggest that the city of diamonds was about to become the center of attention. Somewhere in Antwerp, the Italian Leonardo Notarbartolo and his men had everything ready to commit what has gone down in history as “the robbery of the century.”
Notarbartolo knows the Antwerp Diamond Center inside out, as he has posed as an Antwerp jeweler and has been planning the robbery of what is supposedly one of the safest buildings in the world for months.
The thieves faced more than ten levels of security, including a two-foot-thick steel door. They also managed to go unnoticed by the security cameras. Nothing failed and they managed to get hold of their loot: 100 of the 189 boxes in the security vault, with contents valued at 100 million euros.
Each of the 189 safe deposit boxes had a specific key and a combination with more than 17,000 possibilities. To this day, how they managed to carry out the robbery remains a mystery.