'Gigantic' Brussels Airport diamond heist
02-19-2013, 01:46 AM
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'Gigantic' Brussels Airport diamond heist
Armed robbers have made off with a "gigantic" haul of diamonds after a daring raid at Brussels Airport.
They broke through a fence on Monday evening and stole gems worth tens of millions of euros as they were being loaded from a Brinks security van onto a plane bound for Switzerland.
They escaped back through the same hole. Police later found a burned-out vehicle close to the airport.
Police are looking for eight men, a prosecutors' spokeswoman said.
Caroline De Wolf, of the Antwerp World Diamond Centre, said the haul was estimated to be worth 50m euros (£43m).
"What we are talking about is obviously a gigantic sum," De Wolf told Belgium's VRT broadcaster AFP quoted an unnamed spokeswoman at the same Antwerp centre calling the robbery "one of the biggest" ever.
She said that the diamonds were "rough stones" being transported from Antwerp to Zurich.
They broke through a fence on Monday evening and stole gems worth tens of millions of euros as they were being loaded from a Brinks security van onto a plane bound for Switzerland.
They escaped back through the same hole. Police later found a burned-out vehicle close to the airport.
Police are looking for eight men, a prosecutors' spokeswoman said.
Caroline De Wolf, of the Antwerp World Diamond Centre, said the haul was estimated to be worth 50m euros (£43m).
"What we are talking about is obviously a gigantic sum," De Wolf told Belgium's VRT broadcaster AFP quoted an unnamed spokeswoman at the same Antwerp centre calling the robbery "one of the biggest" ever.
She said that the diamonds were "rough stones" being transported from Antwerp to Zurich.
02-20-2013, 04:02 PM
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02-20-2013, 09:38 PM
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I'm rooting for them. It's nice to see someone steal other than government or big business.
I also like how the airport officials are downplaying this as the work of organized crime, so apparently that's ok and no big deal in terms of their "We are an airport that is, as all international airports are, subject to very strict aviation security and safety regulations."
It was organized crime and they were professionals, that's why they got in. We have very strict aviation security and safety regulations, including a fence around the airport that can be driven right through with a car or cut with wire cutters. But we are secure!
I also like how the airport officials are downplaying this as the work of organized crime, so apparently that's ok and no big deal in terms of their "We are an airport that is, as all international airports are, subject to very strict aviation security and safety regulations."
It was organized crime and they were professionals, that's why they got in. We have very strict aviation security and safety regulations, including a fence around the airport that can be driven right through with a car or cut with wire cutters. But we are secure!
02-20-2013, 09:49 PM
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I'm rooting for them. It's nice to see someone steal other than government or big business.
I also like how the airport officials are downplaying this as the work of organized crime, so apparently that's ok and no big deal in terms of their "We are an airport that is, as all international airports are, subject to very strict aviation security and safety regulations."
It was organized crime and they were professionals, that's why they got in. We have very strict aviation security and safety regulations, including a fence around the airport that can be driven right through with a car or cut with wire cutters. But we are secure!
I also like how the airport officials are downplaying this as the work of organized crime, so apparently that's ok and no big deal in terms of their "We are an airport that is, as all international airports are, subject to very strict aviation security and safety regulations."
It was organized crime and they were professionals, that's why they got in. We have very strict aviation security and safety regulations, including a fence around the airport that can be driven right through with a car or cut with wire cutters. But we are secure!
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