Millions of dollars in diamonds take off at Brussels Airport
Hollywood drools over surefire blockbuster.
The diamond heist at Brussels airport was superb. One of those things that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy when you read about it in the morning paper. Here is the report from the BBC and another one from the Guardian. It took the robbers 11 minutes to make off with 50 million dollars worth of diamonds and to make it worse (or better) the stones can be recut so they are almost impossible to trace. Of course later the Guardian ran an op-ed piece on how such crimes should not be regarded as glamorous ... but hey, too late! Hands up who doesn't think its the coolest thing? Its nothing to do with bad George Clooney movies either, a well planned heist with no violence to boot will always be something to inspire awe.
It wasn't long however before experts started to point out some uncanny parallels between this heist and one carried out in Antwerp ten years ago (described in the excellent book Flawless by Greg Campbell and Scott Andrew Selby). Here is Scott Andrew Selby's reflection on the two robberies from CNN. More on the strange co-incidences from the Daily Beast.
The seven biggest diamond heists in recent history are outlined in this piece from US News
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