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for you what's the quickest way that you
think you could earn one hundred million
dollars in if you're an average American
employee earning roughly forty five
thousand dollars a year it'll take you
two thousand two hundred and forty four
years before you can make your 100
million or you could be Jeff Bezos and
earn that much money about every 11
hours that you exist but if you don't
have a huge company behind you to help
you make that much money maybe you could
earn that much in just one night the
same way the leonardo notarbartolo and
his gang did you rob one of the most
securely fortified places in the world
like you're in a movie and make off with
over a hundred million dollars in
diamonds although to be fair you may end
up in jail for a long time if you get
caught afterwards i heated so just
listen and remember that stealing is bad
the location that the crime took place
in was right here a small three bollock
sized area in downtown Antwerp in
Belgium known as the Antwerp diamond
district back in 2003 when the crime
took place three billion dollars of
diamond sales were made in just this
tiny area and over eighty percent of all
the world's rough diamonds will pass
through here it's one of the densest
concentrations of wealth anywhere in the
world and that wealth is very securely
guarded the district has its own
dedicated police force provided by the
Belgian government there are 63 video
cameras providing 24-hour video
surveillance and the entire perimeter
can be shut off with steel cylinders
that will block any vehicles from
getting in or from leaving inside of the
center of all of this already impressive
security is a large building called the
diamond center where a large portion of
the district's diamond merchants work
merchants rent out stores and offices
inside of the building and also rent out
safe-deposit boxes inside the building's
vaults and it's inside of this vault
where hundreds of millions of dollars
worth of valuables are stashed but
getting inside is obviously impossible
right because it has ten layers of
security that any crazy thief would have
to somehow get through first of all the
vault is located two stories underground
beneath the building there's an external
security camera outside of the door
that's recording 24 hours a day
a combination dial on the door with over
100 million different possible
combinations a key lock with a very
specific key that you need to insert a
three tons solid steel door rated to
withstand over 12 hours of continuous
drilling but that wouldn't matter anyway
because it also has a seismic sensor
inside of it that would trigger an alarm
the moment that it detected a drills
vibration if the door is somehow opened
there are two metal plates on the door
and the wall that create a magnetic
field but if the door gets opened that
magnetic field will break which triggers
another alarm then there's a steel grate
behind that door that requires another
key to open once you get past all of
this you're inside but now if there's
even more problems there's an internal
security camera that's also recording 24
hours a day a light sensor little
trigger an alarm if it detects any light
like people turning on the switches or
using flashlights and finally a heat and
motion camera that'll trigger another
alarm if it detects motion and arrays on
the vaults temperature from somebody's
body heat being inside of it but none of
this deter notarbartolo from allegedly
planning what has been called the
greatest heist of the 21st century and
this is how something impossible to
break into was well broken into with
supplies that you could basically get at
Walmart beginning in 2000 three years
before the heist would take place note
our Bartolo began renting an office
inside of the diamond center to blend in
and gain everybody's trust there he
posed as an Italian diamond merchant
made friends and ran a semi legitimate
business there for three years without
doing anything too suspicious and since
he was a tenant inside of the building
he was given a card that gave him
24-hour access to the building and more
importantly access to the massive vault
below to store his own diamond send
photography inside of the building was
strictly prohibited but eventually he
managed to create a miniature digital
camera that he fixed atop of a pen that
poked out of the top of his shirt
pockets this enabled him to walk
straight into the vault and take
hundreds of photographs of everything
inside and outside without ever getting
noticed he would go on to recruit a team
of five including himself and using
these photographs they were able to
perfectly recreate an exact replica of
the vault in a warehouse somewhere
sites the team would practice and
practice and perfect their robbery
inside of the replica over and over
again until in February 2003 they
decided that they were ready to do it
for real
they chose the night of Saturday the
15th because they knew that a
significant portion of the diamond
centers workers were Jewish and
therefore probably wouldn't stumble into
the building in the middle of their
robbery on a Saturday there were no
security guards present because they
trusted the false technological defenses
were impregnable the day before on the
14th notre art ello walked into the
vault like he usually did to make his
deposit but this time he brought a can
of women's hair spray with him without
being noticed he sprayed the motion and
heat sensor with a thin layer that would
prove to be an ingenious but simple hack
that would stop any heat from reaching
it the next night on the night of the
15th Keita's gang used a rented car and
drove up across the street at about
midnight notarbartolo remained in the
car as the getaway driver while the
other four darted out and broke into a
run-down office next door they went from
here into a back garden that bordered
the back of the diamond center using a
ladder that they had hidden in that
garden some time ago they managed to
crawl up to a balcony of the diamond
center there was an infrared sensor on
this balcony
but the gang used a homemade polyester
shield to protect themselves from
detection walked right up to it and
placed the shield in front of it to
effectively disable it breaking in
through a window the gang scurried in
and walked down to the basement where
the vault stood before them next up they
placed a black bag over the security
camera and flipped on the lights they
also brought another simple but
ingenious homemade tool with them to
deal with something else a slab of
aluminum with double-sided tape on it
they stuck these slabs to the metal
plates that were creating the magnetic
field over the door then unscrew their
bolts and remove them they then taped
those plates to the wall without ever
breaking the field or setting off an
alarm using a camera that notarbartolo
had hidden outside of the door a while
ago they already knew the combination to
the dial lock in a massive security
oversight they also found out that the
super unique key that they used to open
the other lock was just hanging in a
closet right by the door so they just
took that and open that law
normally they shut the lights back off
and swung open the door
pick the lock to the steel grate and got
in without a single alarm triggering the
hairspray trick seemed to be doing its
job but they didn't take any chances
they put a styrofoam box over it to
isolate it further put black duct tape
over the light sensor another black bag
over the interior security camera and
they even managed to rewrap the wires in
the ceiling to not send any alarms out
and most impressively they did all of
this while in complete darkness because
they had memorized the entire vaults
layout with all of the security overcome
they held themselves in a frenzy - over
100 million dollars worth of diamonds
gold jewelry and various currencies with
their duffel bags overflowing and loot
they ran out at 5:30 a.m. got back into
their car and drove off without a single
shot or an alarm being fired while the
heist itself was squeaky clean their
runaway was not they had been wearing
plastic gloves during the whole heist
and they didn't leave any DNA evidence
inside of the vaults
however they needed to burn those gloves
and on their drive back to Italy Nonna
Bartolo pulled off on the side of the
road to do it but his friend allegedly
according to him got nervous and began
throwing stuff carelessly out of the
window including a half-eaten salami
sandwich this sandwich was later
discovered and it provided the DNA
evidence that lead to no tartullo to the
crime so he was arrested and sentenced
to 10 years in prison for his role in
the heist he has never given up the
names of any of his fellow robbers even
to this day and most of the 100 million
dollars that was stolen is still missing
out there somewhere that is unless you
believe notarbartolo who claims they
only managed to steal 20 million dollars
and the reported 100 million dollars is
all just an elaborate insurance fraud
scheme on the part of the diamond center
it's not really clear but one thing that
is is don't leave behind a half-eaten
salami sandwich near the crime scene
after you've just stolen millions of
dollars
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