Antwerp Diamond Heist [True Crime Special]

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🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Antwerp diamond heist, dubbed the "heist of the century",^[1] was by far the largest diamond heist and one of the largest robberies in history. Thieves stole loose diamonds, gold, silver and other types of jewelry valued at more than $100 million.^[2]^[3] It took place in Antwerp, Belgium, during the weekend of 15–16 February 2003. Though arrests were made and time was served, most of the diamonds stolen remain unrecovered.

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0:00.0	It's really interesting. It's about a skyscraper city and as you get closer to the base, the technology gets more primitive.
0:07.0	Oh, like Alabama.
0:09.0	Well, not that primitive.
0:11.0	Gentlemen, welcome to the heist high-mount.
0:15.0	Eli, what are you doing?
0:17.0	I've asked you to come here to help me steal five diamonds, worth a total of $1,682.
0:24.0	If you choose to accept, you will.
0:26.0	I do not.
0:27.0	No, I don't either. No.
0:29.0	Okay, come on, guys. I'm the master safe cracker we need to get this job done.
0:35.0	All I need is a getaway driver and someone to kill everyone at the jewelry store.
0:39.0	Absolutely not.
0:41.0	You want to kill multiple people for $1,600 bucks?
0:44.0	About $1,682.
0:46.0	Not the point. That's not what he's talking about.
0:48.0	Also, you're not a safe cracker anyway.
0:50.0	That shows how much you know. I actually, I'll have you know, I opened the most secure locked door in our complex.
0:57.0	In the studio?
0:58.0	I think there's only one door that closes in its a Curio cabinet, man.
1:02.0	Yeah, and it's got one of those like hook and latch type locks.
1:05.0	Sure does. Took me three and a half minutes, but I was successful.
1:09.0	It took you more than three minutes to open the fucking cabinet.
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