The $100 Million Heist Ruined by a Sandwich

In February 2003, thieves beat heat sensors, radar, a magnetic field and an "uncrackable" lock and emptied 109 safe deposit boxes under the Antwerp Diamond Center — more than $100 million in diamonds, gold and jewellery. Then one of them panicked on the motorway, and a half-eaten sandwich sent them to prison. 0:00 Antwerp, February 2003 0:47 Chapter 1: The Vault 2:36 Chapter 2: The Tenant 4:16 Chapter 3: The Crew 5:13 Chapter 4: The Night 7:11 Chapter 5: The Forest 8:37 Chapter 6: The Sandwich 9:53 Chapter 7: The Missing Diamonds 11:28 Chapter 8: The Small Thing Based on public sources: Wired (Joshua Davis, 2009), "Flawless" by Scott Selby and Greg Campbell (2010), court reporting on the 2005 appeal verdict, and later press coverage. Claims marked as Notarbartolo's own account (the replica vault, the $20 million figure, the insurance-fraud story) are his version and are disputed. Vault diagrams, maps and evidence scenes are illustrations, not the real vault.\ #AntwerpDiamondHeist #TrueCrime #Heist