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| Diamond heists – timeline | Diamond heists – timeline |
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| 1993 | 1993 |
| Robbers manage to open only five of the underground vaults at the Antwerp Diamond Centre, yielding loot estimated at £3m. | Robbers manage to open only five of the underground vaults at the Antwerp Diamond Centre, yielding loot estimated at £3m. |
| 1994 | 1994 |
| Machine-gun-toting thieves steal £28m in gems from the Carlton Hotel in Cannes on the French Riviera. | Machine-gun-toting thieves steal £28m in gems from the Carlton Hotel in Cannes on the French Riviera. |
| 2002 | 2002 |
| Thieves break into a Dutch science museum, where an exhibition promised to show visitors how to tell real diamonds from fakes, and made off with necklaces, tiaras and precious gems on loan from other museums and collections estimated to be worth £7.7m. | Thieves break into a Dutch science museum, where an exhibition promised to show visitors how to tell real diamonds from fakes, and made off with necklaces, tiaras and precious gems on loan from other museums and collections estimated to be worth £7.7m. |
| 2003 | 2003 |
| Robbers tape over security cameras, disable the alarm system and break into the high-security underground vaults of the Diamond Centre in Antwerp, the world capital of diamond-cutting, getting away with an estimated £58m in goods. After prying open 123 of the 160 vaults, the thieves stood ankle-deep in a pile of diamonds, gold, jewellery, stocks, bonds, cash and lockboxes, police said. The bounty was so abundant they had to leave a lot of it behind. | Robbers tape over security cameras, disable the alarm system and break into the high-security underground vaults of the Diamond Centre in Antwerp, the world capital of diamond-cutting, getting away with an estimated £58m in goods. After prying open 123 of the 160 vaults, the thieves stood ankle-deep in a pile of diamonds, gold, jewellery, stocks, bonds, cash and lockboxes, police said. The bounty was so abundant they had to leave a lot of it behind. |
| 2004 | 2004 |
| Twelve pieces of jewellery worth about £16.4m, including the 125-carat Comtesse de Vendome diamond necklace, are stolen from a store in Tokyo's Ginza district. | Twelve pieces of jewellery worth about £16.4m, including the 125-carat Comtesse de Vendome diamond necklace, are stolen from a store in Tokyo's Ginza district. |
| 2005 | 2005 |
| Thieves threaten the guards and hijack an armoured car from Dutch carrier KLM's cargo ramp at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, making off with millions in diamonds and jewellery. Subsequent media reports put the value of the loot at up to £58m. "It was a secured area of the airport, so it's a big question how those people could get there," an airline spokesman said at the time. | Thieves threaten the guards and hijack an armoured car from Dutch carrier KLM's cargo ramp at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, making off with millions in diamonds and jewellery. Subsequent media reports put the value of the loot at up to £58m. "It was a secured area of the airport, so it's a big question how those people could get there," an airline spokesman said at the time. |
| 2007 | 2007 |
| Diamonds worth £13.5m are stolen from safe-deposit boxes in an ABN Amro bank in Antwerp, Belgium, according to police. | Diamonds worth £13.5m are stolen from safe-deposit boxes in an ABN Amro bank in Antwerp, Belgium, according to police. |
| 2008 | 2008 |
| Masked thieves drill a tunnel into the Damiani jeweler's showroom in Milan, Italy, making off with gold, diamonds and rubies worth an estimated £13m. The company did not confirm the value of the stolen items. | Masked thieves drill a tunnel into the Damiani jeweler's showroom in Milan, Italy, making off with gold, diamonds and rubies worth an estimated £13m. The company did not confirm the value of the stolen items. |
| While Christmas shoppers stroll outside the posh Harry Winston jewellery shop near Paris's famed Champs-Élysées, armed thieves, some dressed as women and wearing wigs, enter the store and steal gems and jewelled watches worth up to £56m, according to French police. | While Christmas shoppers stroll outside the posh Harry Winston jewellery shop near Paris's famed Champs-Élysées, armed thieves, some dressed as women and wearing wigs, enter the store and steal gems and jewelled watches worth up to £56m, according to French police. |
| 2009 | 2009 |
| Two elegantly dressed men rob the Graff Diamonds store in London's Mayfair district and carry away necklaces, watches, rings and bracelets worth more than £40m, according to Scotland Yard. | Two elegantly dressed men rob the Graff Diamonds store in London's Mayfair district and carry away necklaces, watches, rings and bracelets worth more than £40m, according to Scotland Yard. |
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