Brussels Heist - 37m Euros - 31 Arrested

[terminator363]

BBC Report

They have to make a movie about this... "The Belgian Job"

- which was posted 3 weeks ago,

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BBC Update 2

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BBC Report (Conclusion)

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

What is with all these major heist jobs going down in Europe over the past years, I mean you had the paintings stolen last year. A couple years back you had the bank heist in Stockholm with a stolen helicopter. I just feel with them being close to each other Sweden, Norway, Paris, Netherlands, now Belgium that perhaps the people doing these crimes are the same. I don't know maybe it is just that easy to rob a place in Europe?

 

[terminator363]

Seriously? No one cares?

 

[sumbrownkid]

Does Europe have things like account insurance that will cover up to a certain number per each account?

 

[Pupik]

Seriously? No one cares?

What, you want me to incriminate myself? Fine, I'm not really in St. Louis!

 

[niky]

I was thinking about this the other day... what fantastic work. Charlie would be proud. Except they didn't use proper cars... like MINIs...

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In and out in less than ten minutes, nobody hurt, nobody shot. Pure genius.

*cough* Evil, but genius.

 

[sumbrownkid]

I was thinking about this the other day... what fantastic work. Charlie would be proud. Except they didn't use proper cars... like MINIs...

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In and out in less than ten minutes, nobody hurt, nobody shot. Pure genius.

*cough* Evil, but genius.

You always need a tech guy that says he needs one more minute every minute.

 

[Pupik]

In and out in less than ten minutes, nobody hurt, nobody shot. Pure genius.

*cough* Evil, but genius.

Like this guy. That's how you get away!

 

[terminator363]

In spirit of the occasion:



I wonder who/what group was behind this...

 

[niky]

The tech guy screaming one more minute is better than doing twenty or thirty shifts in one quarter mile run.

Like this guy. That's how you get away!

I'd rather be poor.

Common modus round these parts. Rent an apartment behind a bank or pawnshop, cut into the back of the building with torches, and loot the place overnight.

 

[kikie]

It was probably an inside job (information given to the, now very rich, thiefs).

 

[Callum B]

I'm struck between thinking "Ooo bad bad people, stealing and being unlawful" and all the usual bollocks, to "Wow credit where credit's due".
I'm basing this on the fact it was done so cleanly.

 

[Beeblebrox237]

I wish that governments and corporations were half as effective as this.

 

[Callum B]

I wish that governments and corporations were half as effective as this.

I don't know, our government's fairly good at 'acquiring' money from other sources that they shouldn't be fishing in...

 

[kikie]

I don't know, our government's fairly good at 'acquiring' money from other sources that they shouldn't be fishing in...

That's common practice.

 

[terminator363]

Update! They have been captured!

 

[kikie]

Police arrested another "suspect". They think it's the head of the "gang".

Dutch article: http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/957/Binnen...3/Kopstuk-diamantroof-Zaventem-opgepakt.dhtml