This could be the heist of the century, and even the biggest heist in British history. Criminals took advantage of the Easter weekend to invest Hatton Garden Safety Deposit, founded in 1954 in London’s Hatton Garden, little known to tourists but where are installed from the 16th century jewelers and diamond cutters. Closed on weekends, the building houses over 300 dealers in diamonds, gold and precious stones and more than fifty stores.
Once inside, they fractured according to a statement from Scotland Yard “60-70 safes’ of the 600 identified in the institution. They also took away cash and gems for an uncertain amount, but that may be historic. According to the accounts of “The Telegraph” and “The Sun”, the thieves managed to dig a tunnel in the roof to rappel down a lift shaft and enter the vault. Tuesday, April 7, Scotland Yard said that “heavy machinery was used to access the vault” . Detectives and officers from the Flying Squad, a unit specialized in burglaries could take up to two days to analyze the scene of the burglary, police said.
Several British media, the amount of loot is estimated at 200 million pounds ($ 275 million), almost four times higher than the previous record, when in 1987, two armed men had stolen 60 million pounds ( € 82 million) by attacking a deposit institution in the exclusive Knightsbridge in the center of the capital, according lemonde.fr.
No comments:
Post a Comment