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BBC News UK: Hopes of finding diamond haul fade |
The Beeb covers the huge 100m euro Belgian theft of Diamonds in February last year. I bet this story will become a film soon.
Excerpt:
In February last year 100m euros (£65m) worth of diamonds vanished from vaults under the Belgian city of Antwerp during a heist which was straight out of the Hollywood movie Ocean's Eleven.
Detectives believe an Italian gang were responsible but the stones are still missing and may never be found.
Ever since the beginning of the 16th century Antwerp has been the world's diamond-cutting capital.
Over half the world's diamonds are traded in the Belgian city's gem district, a maze of streets close to the train station. Diamond merchants in Antwerp have a combined annual turnover of $23 billion.
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