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<i>This is my city...</i>

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{\an8}<i>Antwerp...</i>

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{\an8}<i>...the city of diamonds.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Thieves in Belgium are
thought to have got away</i>

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{\an8}<i>with diamonds worth
millions of pounds.</i>

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...in what could be the biggest
diamond heist in history.

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{\an8}No one could actually imagine

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{\an8}that the diamond district
could be cracked.

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{\an8}How they did it...
we had no idea.

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{\an8}No force, no violence.

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{\an8}And as much as 300 million
US dollars is gone.

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{\an8}The only leads that we had
just seemed quite a normal man,

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dressed just to blend in.

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<i>Gems were taken from the world's</i>

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<i>largest diamond distribution
center in Antwerp.</i>

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{\an8}We were on the hunt...

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{\an8}...for a mastermind.

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Monday, the 17th
of February, 2003.

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A normal Monday morning.

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I arrived at the office.

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Most of the time, we start
with a cup of coffee.

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But I saw Patrick sitting
there, ready to leave.

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{\an8}So I said, "Oh, no time
for coffee, Patrick?"

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{\an8}And he said, "No, I don't think so. We
got a call from the diamond district."

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{\an8}"There has been a burglary."

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{\an8}"A safe has been broken open."

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You have to realize that
85% of diamonds worldwide

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are passing in one way or
another through Antwerp.

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They call it the
diamond capital.

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The main streets in
the diamond district

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are the Rijfstraat, the
Hoveniersstraat, and the Schupstraat.

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Billions of dollars of goods are
lying in those three streets,

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spread in the different vault
rooms in the diamond district.

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This little square,

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that is the Diamond Center,
where the burglary took place.

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{\an8}In the building, you
have 13 floors up

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{\an8}with 225 diamond
trading offices.

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Most of the dealers were storing
their diamonds into the vault room.

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But then, when we were entering by
car into the diamond district...

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Something serious was going on.

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Immediately, we were blocked
with a lot of dealers

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trying to find out whether their
diamonds, gold, or money was gone.

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When we saw the panic,

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we realized here we are not talking about
a little theft in a diamond company.

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No, this is... this
is something else.

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So, we went down
in the elevator...

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and I think I can
speak for myself.

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I was struck by lightning.

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I saw a door, the
biggest door I ever saw,

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a steel door,

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which was at least 30
centimeters, a foot thick.

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-But the door was standing open.
-Open.

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Wide open.

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A metal gate was blocked
with a bucket of paint.

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And when we stepped
inside the vault room...

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Throughout the walls
that we could see,

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they were covered with
individual lockers.

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And we immediately saw

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that the majority of these, uh,
individual safe deposit boxes were...

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...cracked and opened.

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And I was standing in
front of Ali Baba's cave.

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The scale of it must
have been like millions,

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because every month, you have
diamonds that are mined from De Beers

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in Namibia or South Africa,

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were shipped to London by plane

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and then loaded
onto a smaller plane

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and shipped from London
to the Antwerp Airport.

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From there, those shipments of diamonds
were brought with armored trucks

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to the dealers of the
diamond district...

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...who buy a monthly
quantity of diamonds.

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So in the building
of Diamond Center,

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there were diamond dealers

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that were, that week, receiving
diamonds from De Beers.

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Also important was that that weekend
was the yearly tennis tournament

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called the Diamond Games.

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The prize, by the way,
was a golden racket

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with diamonds all over,

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funded by the diamond area.

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A lot of diamond dealers
would be present.

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So, at that moment, Antwerp
was bursting with diamonds.

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One of our main questions is how the hell
that the robbers got into this building.

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You have here the entrance
of the diamond area,

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located in the heart of Antwerp and
regarded as being our Fort Knox.

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Inside the building, there were 24
cameras working day in, day out.

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For each day of the month,
there was a cassette.

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But the videocassette of the
15th and the 16th February,

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the weekend and the night
of the heist, were missing.

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I said, "Okay, I'm going to
call the security company

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and ask them when the
alarm was set off."

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And, uh, he said, "No, sir,
the alarm did not go off."

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"The... the safe
is still closed."

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And I said, "Yeah,
this is strange,

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because I'm actually
standing in the vault room."

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"The door is wide
open behind me,

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and you tell me that
the alarm is still on."

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It's crazy.

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Once this vault door is open,

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they had to handle the motion detector,
the heat detector, the light detector.

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We made an attempt to start with
our, uh, fingerprint investigation,

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commencing with
the motion sensors,

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which were manipulated
by the suspects.

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It was sprayed with
a kind of product,

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we assumed it was a hairspray,

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which makes sure that the
surface is not smooth enough

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for the use of
fingerprint powder.

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So we didn't have any results that
could be used in the investigation.

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The next sensor we took to have an
investigation on was this light sensor,

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which was attached to the ceiling,
covered with black duct tape.

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Again, here, we didn't find any
fingerprints on the pieces of tape.

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I was impressed. My
colleagues were impressed.

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It was flawlessly executed.

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Because of the importance of
the diamond trade in Antwerp,

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there was immediately a lot of
pressure of international press...

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<i>They managed to get by extremely
heavy security in the building,</i>

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<i>which houses dozens of
gem trading companies.</i>

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...of politicians...

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And the politicians put
pressure on the magistrates.

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And because of that,
there was a pressure...

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...of my own superiors...

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...but also from
the diamond area.

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<i>It's a huge blow for the
companies involved...</i>

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I was thinking, this
must be an inside job.

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So you had the security
guard, you had two concierges,

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and then you had the
building manager.

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We started investigating very
thoroughly on this group.

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We started interrogating
them. We did house searches.

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But in the end, we
had to clear them all.

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We had no idea who was
responsible for this crime.

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{\an8}And then suddenly, in the
afternoon, I get a telephone call.

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My husband August and me,
we had a general store.

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{\an8}I was cleaning the
shop that Monday.

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{\an8}And the radio was on.

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And I heard the news

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that there was a heist in the
Diamond Center in Antwerp.

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<i>We cautiously estimate €100
million of loot in diamonds...</i>

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August drove to a part
of the woods that we own

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with some vegetable scraps,

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to feed the rabbits
and the fish.

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And when he entered the woods,

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he said, "Goddamn it, they did it
again. People dumped their trash again."

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A lot of people went
there with trash.

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They took a little
road to our woods,

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where they were
hidden from sight.

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{\an8}And then the trash got dumped.

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So my husband opened the bags.

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There were a lot
of torn-up papers.

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So he started puzzling...

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Antwerp...

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Diamonds...

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And he thought, oh,
this is serious.

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This isn't for me.

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And then he came home mad.

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He came in, and I immediately
could tell something was wrong.

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I saw it on his face.

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But I didn't get
the chance to ask.

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He had the phone in his hands
straightaway to call the police.

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That call...

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...changed everything.

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There were all
packages of diamonds.

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You have those special papers
that are used to wrap diamonds in.

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We call it in Flemish <i>"Briefke."</i>

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We saw some very small, tiny, green
emerald stones that were left.

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We saw also banknotes
that were torn up.

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Tools, wrenches, flashlights.

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A glove that was left behind.

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A sport bag.

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Even parts of a bond which
referred to the diamond area.

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But there was also other stuff.

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{\an8}Because when all that
material came to our office,

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{\an8}we were laying it out on a big
table in our conference room.

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And there was wine, there
was cheese, there was pasta,

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even a half-eaten
salami sandwich.

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This was strange, because I don't think
that they had a picnic in the vault room.

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So some of the rubbish is
clearly from the vault room,

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but then the kitchen rubbish
probably came from a hideout.

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And they took everything
and left it at Floordambos.

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This is another critical piece of
evidence that we found in the woods.

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You see here the carton boxes

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where they keep the video cassettes
for the footage in Diamond Center.

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But the tape was removed
from all these cassettes.

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So what did we do? We thought,
okay, the case happened in Antwerp,

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rubbish was left in Vilvoorde.

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There's actually, between
Antwerp and Brussels,

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you only have that highway.

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So let's do a screening
of the whole highway

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and see whether they
were removing the tape

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during their car journey.

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So we asked the police academy
to send a class of students.

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It's about 40-50 kilometers.
They had to walk it.

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And they collected two or
three bags full of tape.

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So we sent it to a logistics
center of Sony in Brussels,

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and we asked them...

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...whether they could reinstall
this tape on a black video cassette

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so that we could
see what was on it.

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Later on, when one of the colleagues
came back from the headquarters of Sony

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with this cassette
in his hands...

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We had all the
investigators together.

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Also my superiors.

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And then he puts
in that cassette.

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The film starts...

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...and it was a porn movie.

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I've never been so disappointed
in a porn movie as I was then.

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There was a lot of pressure.

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In the morning, it was only the
Diamond Squad with six people

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that was working on
this investigation.

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By the evening, the team was
expanded to 20 detectives

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that were full-time
working on this case.

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When I became the commander,
I was 28-29, which is young.

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At the time of the heist,
I was still only 33.

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So it was a lot to handle for me
to get immediately 20 detectives.

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A lot of them had more experience
and were much older than myself.

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I had to get results.

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It was really like a big
puzzle with all the pieces,

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but in the wrong order.

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I'm a simple police
officer, so for me,

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this was something
like in the movies.

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We put everything on the conference
table in the middle of our, uh, floor.

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And we saw immediately that
there were a lot of papers,

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a lot of ripped papers.

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We started to piece together,

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and at a certain moment, we see
that some pieces are fixing.

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On one of the pieces,
he saw "Schupstraat."

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And Schupstraat is the street where
the building Diamond Center is located.

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So he started to re-puzzle and
reconstruct that whole document.

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This is the document
that Gerry reassembled.

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And like you see, it was
torn in different pieces.

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First of all, we noticed that
the document is in Italian.

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You see the title here?

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<i>"Commessa di lavoro,</i>" which
means "working order."

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So we see that it's
a working order...

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...to place a security
system in an office.

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An office located...

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...at Schupstraat 911...

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...which is exactly the address
of the building of Diamond Center.

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And this document
is issued by...

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...the Italian diamond
company named...

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...Damoros Preziosi.

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Damoros Preziosi.

239
00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,637
So with this document, we went to the
building manager in Diamond Center

240
00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,717
and asked her whether it's
correct that Damoros Preziosi

241
00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,640
was one of the companies that
was located in the building.

242
00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,357
She told us that indeed it was,

243
00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:23,680
but that also locker 149 belonged
to the company Damoros Preziosi.

244
00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:26,517
Nothing wrong at that moment,

245
00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:30,200
but that specific locker
hadn't been burglared.

246
00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:37,237
So how did that company's document
end up in the rubbish at Floordambos

247
00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,840
if the locker of that company
had never been cracked open?

248
00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:47,920
So our next request was to
do a search in that office.

249
00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,840
And we also took with
us the building manager.

250
00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,720
The office was empty.

251
00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,400
The desks were empty.
The cupboards were empty.

252
00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,717
An office that was rented
for more than two years

253
00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:06,440
and had never been used.

254
00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,437
The building manager didn't
know the man very well,

255
00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,117
but she could tell us that it
was an Italian businessman...

256
00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:16,960
...of whom she had no
address, no other references.

257
00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,520
So we decided to check the
rest of the videotapes...

258
00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:28,920
...to watch people leaving the
building with the building manager.

259
00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:35,680
Eventually she was able to point
out, "Okay, this is your guy."

260
00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:47,000
He just seemed quite a
normal man, middle-aged...

261
00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,760
dressed just to blend in
and not to be noticed.

262
00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:57,637
He looked like many
of these people

263
00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,040
that are walking in and out
of these buildings constantly.

264
00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:05,277
We started inquiring in the
building with the guards,

265
00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:08,040
with the concierges,
with even other renters.

266
00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,997
And they all could tell us the same.
"We know him, but he never speaks."

267
00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,117
"He's like a gray
mouse in the area."

268
00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,317
"He's there, and when you
see him, ten minutes later,

269
00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:18,600
you forgot that you met him."

270
00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:22,600
The building manager
gave us the records.

271
00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,640
And his name was
Leonardo Notarbartolo.

272
00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,400
So we immediately
asked ourselves...

273
00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,560
could this be the
mastermind behind the heist?

274
00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:58,880
Leonardo...

275
00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:03,840
do you like diamonds?

276
00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:07,280
Yes, very much.

277
00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,480
It's a passion that has
developed gradually.

278
00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,477
As I was stealing them,

279
00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:19,760
I grew closer to them.

280
00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,157
So were you the mastermind
of the Antwerp heist?

281
00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:25,240
No.

282
00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,800
I was born in Palermo,
towards the mountains.

283
00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:36,480
As a little kid of
just six years old,

284
00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,560
I broke into the
house of this cowherd.

285
00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:44,760
I saw 5,000 lire,

286
00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,080
and I took the money, folded
it, and went downstairs.

287
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:54,597
My father would always tell me,

288
00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:58,160
"Remember that what you
do will have consequences,

289
00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:01,320
and you have to accept them."

290
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,480
So, I am a participant.

291
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:12,600
But I'm not the mastermind
behind the Antwerp heist.

292
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,640
{\an8}Leonardo, interview, take one.

293
00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,480
In the '80s, I opened
my first jewelry shop.

294
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,037
Then later I owned another one.

295
00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:35,920
Then I opened the
third one in the '90s.

296
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:39,117
Logically,

297
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:46,040
I started going back and forth
to Antwerp to buy gemstones.

298
00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:51,920
I started to come
frequently to Antwerp,

299
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,840
and I rented out an apartment

300
00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,080
because it's the world
capital of diamonds.

301
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,117
It's one of the most
strategic points,

302
00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:03,477
on top of Tel Aviv,

303
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:04,877
on top of New York,

304
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,080
on top of London.

305
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,557
My goal was to get
an office in Antwerp,

306
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,080
in the Diamond Center,

307
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:19,080
to gain the confidence of
the big diamond suppliers.

308
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:22,597
So I turned up.

309
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,717
I had to give them all
my Italian documentation

310
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:30,600
about my business,
where I had my office.

311
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,280
They said, "Okay."

312
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:37,840
"We'll do our checks

313
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,117
and research, then
we'll tell you."

314
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,837
And the week after,
they accepted me.

315
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,520
They let me open up
the office there.

316
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,557
Leonardo, the Belgian
police are convinced that

317
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:57,437
you rented the office
in the Diamond Center

318
00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,880
in order to do this
heist. Did you?

319
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,317
No, absolutely not.

320
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,360
I didn't. I went there to work.

321
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,917
Did you know that there was a
vault inside the Diamond Center?

322
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,160
Yes, sure. I knew it.

323
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:18,720
I knew the building had a
vault with safe deposit boxes.

324
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,997
You had to apply for it,
and eventually they'd say,

325
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,157
"If you want it,
there's one available."

326
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,317
That's what happened to me.

327
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:29,717
Not immediately.

328
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:33,757
After a few months, one came up,

329
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,360
and I got it.

330
00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:47,040
So who was the mastermind
behind the heist?

331
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,357
His name was Alessandro.

332
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,397
I mean, he went by Alessandro.

333
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,200
It probably wasn't
his real name.

334
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,680
He told me, "We met in Italy."

335
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,320
And he asked, "Can we
have a coffee together?"

336
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,880
He said, "I know very
well who you are."

337
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,160
"You could do something for me,

338
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:23,560
for a group of mine,

339
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:28,240
"and we'll give you
loads of money."

340
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,400
"I'll give you a Biro... a pen."

341
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,757
"This pen, it has a tiny
little camera here."

342
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,040
"It could store 1,000 photos."

343
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,120
"Take photos of
your vault for me."

344
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,960
"And if it's all
as it should be,

345
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:53,520
I'll give you 100,000 dollars."

346
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,477
Of course, there was some wariness
in the approach, you know?

347
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:02,797
Were you scared?

348
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,877
Of course, I was scared in
that moment. But that's normal.

349
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,477
Those who don't have
fear aren't normal.

350
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,000
Fear must exist.

351
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,080
And I said, "Okay...

352
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:18,440
I'm in."

353
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,160
When I went into the
Diamond Center...

354
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,680
...I put the pen into
my jacket pocket.

355
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:51,557
There was downright obsessive
monitoring of the place.

356
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:57,317
If I was found with the
little camera, you understand,

357
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:03,880
I would immediately be reported
and kicked out of my workplace.

358
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:11,280
So from there, I framed up the
whole hallway of the Diamond Center.

359
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,840
I take the stairs and
go down to the vault.

360
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,640
I ring. I'm behind the door.

361
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,960
Of course, the concierge
sees me and lets me in.

362
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,357
I expect they want to see
the layout of the boxes.

363
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,160
Are there any open?

364
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,237
Strategic points,

365
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,480
there were the video
cameras, the two sensors...

366
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,680
Clearly, I had a lot
of anxiety inside me.

367
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,397
I tried to move in a way

368
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,320
that the pics would be
as clear as possible.

369
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,280
I opened my box,

370
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,720
as anyone else would do.

371
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,957
Then I turn around very slowly,

372
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,280
and I head for the door.

373
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,400
I take the lift and
go back to my office.

374
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,000
And so, we met again.

375
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,360
I gave him the pen.

376
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,160
He said...

377
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:44,040
"Leonardo..."

378
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,437
I don't want to speak for you,
but why settle for this sum

379
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,840
"when there's a lot
more money to gain?"

380
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,677
"Approximately, there's $100
million worth of goods."

381
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,800
"That's ten or 15 million each."

382
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,800
"That's the least
you would make."

383
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,360
"What do you think
about taking part?"

384
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:09,680
And I said, "Yes."

385
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,757
So you said "yes" straightaway?

386
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,720
I said yes, because...

387
00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:19,800
I'd always wanted

388
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,960
to be part of
something like this.

389
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,840
I mean, the whole thing
was getting too tempting.

390
00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:34,160
Fifteen million... I truly started
thinking I could solve a lot of problems.

391
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,877
And until that point, you had
no idea who else was involved?

392
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,680
No, not then.

393
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,520
As soon as we had
Mr. Notarbartolo's name...

394
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,997
we took contact with our
Italian counterparts,

395
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:12,360
and asked whether that gentleman had
any previous conviction or whatever.

396
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,477
After a few hours, we
received the information

397
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,917
that Mr. Notarbartolo was a
well-known criminal in Italy...

398
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,437
...and that he was convicted
for burglary, for heist,

399
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,037
for diamond theft, or
jewelry theft at least,

400
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,880
and they thought he was
living somewhere in Turin.

401
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,477
Next, we got a very
interesting call

402
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,720
from a colleague from
our same department

403
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:49,600
about a kind of a similar burglary
that took place six years before.

404
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,957
First of all, it was an
attempt on a vault room,

405
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:58,640
where the perpetrator
rented an individual locker.

406
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,837
Second of all, he was pretending
to be a diamond dealer,

407
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,280
located in the Diamond Center.

408
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,637
Our colleague said, "I
still have a file about it,"

409
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:15,680
and the guy that was arrested in that
case was also from the city Turin,

410
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,160
"and his name was
Ferdinando Finotto."

411
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,397
There was an arrest warrant
for Ferdinando Finotto,

412
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,280
but they could not find
him anymore in Belgium.

413
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,277
So we had no idea
where they were,

414
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,997
but our best guess at that point
was maybe there is a lead to Italy,

415
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,197
and it could be
like an Italian gang

416
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,440
that especially came to
Belgium to commit this crime.

417
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,277
So, immediately, we
were put in contact

418
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,720
{\an8}with the head of that
<i>Squadra Mobile</i> in Turin.

419
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:51,597
{\an8}He told us that...

420
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,357
In Turin, the presence of
a number of individuals

421
00:30:55,440 --> 00:31:01,040
specializing in thefts
from banks and bank vaults

422
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,797
has created, as coined by
journalists essentially,

423
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,240
a school of thieves,
"The School of Turin."

424
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,677
Our very first reaction was,

425
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,677
"What the fuck is 'The
School of Turin'?"

426
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,240
"Do you have actually a school
of criminals here in Turin?"

427
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,117
Mr. Martino explained that
it was a bunch of people,

428
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,720
each of them was specialized in
some form of criminal behavior.

429
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:33,200
So they picked who they needed
according to his or her specialty.

430
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,440
In Turin, the presence of the
metalworking industry of Fiat...

431
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,877
meant that the skills
for working with metal

432
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:46,880
were more advanced
than in other cities.

433
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,237
Certainly, these people knew
how to work metals well.

434
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,640
They understood the mechanics
of vaults and fortified walls.

435
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,800
Having so many
specialized individuals

436
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,360
concentrated in such
a small area as Turin

437
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,200
led to the creation of this
term, "The School of Turin."

438
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,077
It made a lot of sense to us.

439
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,877
Certainly, given the way the thieves
had tackled all these security systems,

440
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,637
The School of Turin
probably had the knowledge

441
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,480
to do this kind of crime.

442
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,000
Alessandro told me, "We're
meeting the other guys."

443
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,517
We go to an industrial area

444
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,920
where there are warehouses.

445
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,960
I go inside. There are
three people there.

446
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,960
Alessandro does
the introductions.

447
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,520
With fictitious
names, obviously.

448
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,480
The first guy was a master

449
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,160
when it came to
locks and alarms.

450
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,037
A pretty boy!

451
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,000
Looks like a film star.

452
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:31,240
He's 1.93-meters tall.

453
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,397
Well-built.

454
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,840
That's why I call
him The Monster.

455
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,277
The other one, The Genius.

456
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,000
He was a little man.

457
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,440
Really, really, really
smart. Really intelligent.

458
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:53,637
He was half hacker
and half computer geek

459
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,200
and an expert in alarms.

460
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,877
Then there's the one that
seems a bit of a thug,

461
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,437
a bit coarse.

462
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:08,920
A very calm and quiet person.

463
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,797
He can open any
door in the world.

464
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,837
He can open any lock.

465
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,880
-What did you call him?
-The Key Master.

466
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,797
Was that the whole team?

467
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,157
Were there no others?

468
00:34:22,240 --> 00:34:23,917
No, there wasn't
anyone else there.

469
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,200
-No?
-No.

470
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,200
Who was the boss?

471
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:34,040
The boss for the whole
time was Alessandro.

472
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,400
They pull down these
big plastic sheets.

473
00:34:44,240 --> 00:34:49,480
And I see this place which
looks just like the vault.

474
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:57,840
I say, "Bloody hell!
It's exactly the same!"

475
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:04,517
They say, "Are the two video
cameras positioned correctly?"

476
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:05,477
"Yes."

477
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,477
"Is the central one
correctly positioned?"

478
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:08,557
"Yes."

479
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,917
"Is the little
sensor right?" "Yes."

480
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,077
"How does the central one seem?"

481
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,357
I say, "It's identical."

482
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:20,520
"You made it the exact same."

483
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,157
Do you think your wife
could have ever dreamed

484
00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:31,520
that you'd gotten yourself
into something so big?

485
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,920
Absolutely not. She would
have never thought that I...

486
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:43,117
I'd get into such a situation,
a theft of this kind.

487
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:44,840
No, absolutely not.

488
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,840
My wife and I have known
each other since I was 17

489
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,360
and she was 14-15 years old.

490
00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:01,840
I went into the police
force when I was 19.

491
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:06,080
I did not do so well in
secondary school, actually.

492
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:08,917
My mother said, at
a certain point,

493
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,717
"You know what? When you're 19,
you still have opportunities."

494
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,880
"There are still
chances in life."

495
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,557
"There is a job center nearby,

496
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,517
and there will be representatives
of the police force

497
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,357
to see whether you are interested.
Let's go there together."

498
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,997
And I thought, oh no, I'm not
going to join the police force.

499
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:30,280
This is not it for me.

500
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,037
Since the first time I decided

501
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:37,517
what to do with my life,

502
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,997
I told her the truth. I said,
"Look, I'm a little crazy."

503
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:44,320
"Be aware that I might
end up in trouble."

504
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,597
Of course, I don't involve her in
what I do, or what I plan to do,

505
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,557
not at all, no.

506
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:55,280
I hide it from her. I try
not to give her this grief.

507
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,080
I learned a lot from that.

508
00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:01,477
You need to put yourself aside

509
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,400
and not think that you
are the smartest guy.

510
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,960
Once you think that you are
Sherlock Holmes or James Bond,

511
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:11,960
then it will go wrong.

512
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,800
If we were correct that
Notarbartolo was the mastermind...

513
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,280
...renting his office
for more than two years,

514
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:37,277
obviously, he would have
needed a place to, uh, to stay.

515
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:38,440
That is clear.

516
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:43,317
We checked the hotels, and on
the name of Mr. Notarbartolo

517
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:47,080
we could find no name, and we
checked all the hotels in Antwerp.

518
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,637
Whether he was staying then in an
apartment or in a... in a house,

519
00:37:52,720 --> 00:37:54,280
that was not clear to us.

520
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,080
We also hadn't worked out how,

521
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,197
on the night of the heist,

522
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:05,797
he got his gang into the building
without leaving any traces,

523
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:07,240
as far as we could see.

524
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,037
That security guard's
office is always open

525
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,480
between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.

526
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:17,800
After that, they go home.

527
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,917
So the weak point was the
entrance of the garage,

528
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,717
which was on the Lange
Herentalsestraat.

529
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,477
When you are into the garage,
there is a connecting door

530
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:33,240
that leads you directly into the
building on the ground floor.

531
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:35,717
In Floordambos, in the rubbish,

532
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,160
we found an Allen key
that was modified,

533
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:44,000
and we tried it on that
particular door in the garage...

534
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:50,920
...and it was easy to open the
door with that modified key.

535
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,557
They think we came in
through the garage,

536
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:04,757
that we went in underneath
the Diamond Center,

537
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,357
and from there to the vault.

538
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:07,917
No! No!

539
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,760
They really don't know.

540
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:15,117
They were coming in and out of
that place like a Swiss cheese.

541
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:20,600
To make copies of the keys,
to check things, and so on.

542
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,637
So in your opinion, how
many times did they go in?

543
00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:25,837
Thirty.

544
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:27,680
-Thirty?
-At least 30 times.

545
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,160
And never left a trace.

546
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,997
We, as you know,
conducted an interview

547
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:35,917
with Mr. Notarbartolo.

548
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:41,837
He claims, in fact, that the gang went
in multiple times, up to 30 times,

549
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,160
for months and months and
months before the heist.

550
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,157
The fact that they made
reconnaissance missions,

551
00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:50,840
uh, that makes sense to me,
yes, that makes sense to me.

552
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:53,397
Every few months,

553
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,840
we would go and study something
and report it the following day.

554
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,277
We entered from Pelikaanstraat,

555
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,077
where the car park is,

556
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:09,520
a place where you could park
cars behind the Diamond Center.

557
00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:15,557
By skirting along the walls
of the Diamond Center,

558
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,760
we arrived right
at our building.

559
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:25,200
And we went up with a stepladder that
we brought with us, the folding ones.

560
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,237
He claimed they did not
go in through the garage,

561
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:35,397
that they had found a building
site behind the Diamond Center

562
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,480
and gained access direct
into the Diamond Center.

563
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:40,760
On which floor then?

564
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,640
We climbed up to
the first floor.

565
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:54,360
The Genius had bypassed the
alarm that was on this balcony.

566
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,317
Was it with that
same modified key

567
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:58,677
that they could open the door?

568
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:03,760
Because that key was fitting perfectly on
the door of the garage downstairs then.

569
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:06,477
Yes, he had the key.

570
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:11,000
The key that had been
prepared by The Key Master.

571
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:14,760
And from there, we entered.

572
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,960
The biggest problem
we had was the door

573
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,917
with its three obstacles.

574
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,760
The lock, that is the key,

575
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,680
the combination, and the alarm.

576
00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:41,040
The biggest problem to resolve,
clearly, was the combination.

577
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,317
So the combination dial
on... on the... the safe door

578
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:46,960
was changed weekly,

579
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:51,520
and that dial would give you a
hundred million possibilities.

580
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:56,077
You see in the movies often
these guys are using stethoscope

581
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,557
to make sure that they
find the correct code.

582
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,397
Well, specialists told me
that this is impossible.

583
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,120
It will take you days
or weeks to find it.

584
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,477
When The Genius

585
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:13,720
realized there was a
light bulb above the door,

586
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:15,957
he told me,

587
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,320
"Let's place a micro
camera above it."

588
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,240
Makes sense. That makes sense.

589
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,757
We had to find a way
to transmit the images.

590
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,280
We couldn't place
a receiver there.

591
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:36,160
The only way was to find
a spot where to hide it.

592
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:42,717
And that spot was in the boiler room,
which had some fire extinguishers.

593
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,800
Fire extinguisher. Okay.

594
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,037
Okay.

595
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,440
Placing the camera is,
let's say, not impossible.

596
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:58,160
Placing a recorder in a fire extinguisher,
because there was one, that's correct,

597
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,277
uh, that's a different story.

598
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,877
I mean, how are you going
to do that in reality?

599
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:06,560
We're not talking about movies.

600
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,197
The Genius took
one, he made photos,

601
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,117
checked how it was made,

602
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,120
and, in Italy, we modified one,

603
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,760
cutting the bottom and
inserting a receiver inside.

604
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,957
Every evening, when the
concierge went down to close up

605
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:30,037
and he inserted the combination,

606
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,000
we had the recordings.

607
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:39,560
The camera was also needed
to measure up the key.

608
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,437
We could see every frame as
the concierge inserted it.

609
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:48,600
We'd take a still shot, and we could
see the key's size and structure.

610
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,157
Now, we know from experience
that it's possible

611
00:43:55,240 --> 00:43:57,077
to place a very small camera

612
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:01,797
to see somebody, for example, who
is, uh, taking money from a bank.

613
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,200
You can film it, and
you can film the code.

614
00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:07,680
But we're talking
about the year 2003.

615
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,600
Batteries of a cell phone, for
example, it lasted one day.

616
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,520
Batteries of a camera, a
few hours, a video camera.

617
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,677
Yeah, okay, fine.

618
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:23,200
That part, according to me, is
again the category bullshit.

619
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:35,880
Five days after
the... the heist,

620
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:40,637
the details of the evidence
that was found in Floordambos,

621
00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:44,517
and the details of those two names
that already came to our attention,

622
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:50,120
had to stay out of the press, so
that those guys stayed in the dark.

623
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,877
The Antwerp judicial service
provided more information

624
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,200
about last week's
major diamond heist.

625
00:44:57,720 --> 00:44:59,557
For example, the videocassettes

626
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,000
from the night of
the heist were gone,

627
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:07,317
and the international press was
already reporting about this event.

628
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:11,997
The video cassettes from the
weekend of the 15th and 16th

629
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:13,080
have disappeared.

630
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,357
But what was much
more interesting

631
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,957
was that the videocassette
of the 10th February,

632
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,997
which was a Monday
before the theft,

633
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:25,280
was also gone.

634
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,160
That raises questions.

635
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:35,117
If they were interested in that
specific cassette of the 10th, Monday,

636
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:40,480
probably preparations were done
and caught on camera on the 10th.

637
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,517
Next, there was another piece of evidence
found from the rubbish in Floordambos,

638
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:47,920
which was an envelope,

639
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:53,400
and the name said "Elio D'Onorio,"
with an address close to Rome.

640
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:59,840
We found out that Elio
D'Onorio is a specialist,

641
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:02,480
an alarm specialist,

642
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,120
and known as an
Italian criminal too.

643
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:14,157
I remember that document
that we found in Floordambos,

644
00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:19,280
which was a working order to
work on alarm systems on cameras.

645
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,797
Probably, this document
is used as a cover

646
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:27,440
to get people in Diamond Center

647
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,160
to work on that vault door.

648
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,237
Imagine that a tenant
would ask any questions,

649
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,437
they could say,
like, "No problem."

650
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:39,837
"We have a working order,

651
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,997
and we need to, uh, fix the
alarm here," for example.

652
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:48,560
Uh, that is the reason why this document
was created by Damoros Preziosi.

653
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,640
{\an8}We had Leonardo Notarbartolo,

654
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:55,720
{\an8}Ferdinando Finotto,

655
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,877
{\an8}and we had a third Italian
name, Elio D'Onorio,

656
00:46:59,960 --> 00:47:05,840
{\an8}who, according to Marco Martino, were
all related to The School of Turin.

657
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,317
So, together with our
Italian colleagues,

658
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:13,080
everywhere where there was a
possibility to hide was searched.

659
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:17,397
But actually, we had no idea
whether they were in Italy,

660
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,717
still in Belgium, or
somewhere else in the world.

661
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,877
Because there are so many
possibilities to leave Antwerp.

662
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,477
-The train...
-Diamonds are easy to transport.

663
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:26,397
Also.

664
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,437
You can bring them to
international markets

665
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:30,637
all over the world and
sell them immediately.

666
00:47:30,720 --> 00:47:35,917
{\an8}Um, so, we feared, actually, that
we lost, uh, the... the diamonds.

667
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,400
{\an8}It was one of our
main fears, actually.

668
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:40,717
Time was running
out. We knew that.

669
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,840
But where to start? At that
moment, very difficult.

670
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:08,757
Explain to me how you
chose the specific day.

671
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:10,960
We didn't choose a day.

672
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:18,840
We'd reached a point where it's
been going on for two years.

673
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,880
Sooner or later, someone
will start asking questions.

674
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:29,840
The only remaining worry was
a sensor inside the vault

675
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,200
which was a bit more
sophisticated than the other ones.

676
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,080
Alessandro told me, "Look,

677
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,160
we still need a bit more."

678
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,680
"We'd like to have more angles."

679
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,200
"I'll give you a
small camera..."

680
00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:55,360
"...I'll give you a little bag,
and I'll tell you how to do it."

681
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,357
I go towards the boxes.

682
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:06,600
I pretend I'm
stretching like this...

683
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,760
pointing the camera upwards...

684
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:18,000
trying to keep it
pointing to the center.

685
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:34,877
In comes the security guard.
He asked, "Are you unwell?"

686
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:36,440
"Do you have a problem?"

687
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,320
I tried to say my side hurt.

688
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:43,557
I felt a bit off, so
I leaned on something.

689
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:44,800
"Okay, fine."

690
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,557
And so talking it through
between us, one told me

691
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:53,077
that once he had tried

692
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:58,280
to fog up a sensor
using hairspray,

693
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,120
and it had worked.

694
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,520
So three days before the heist,
I was asked to eliminate it.

695
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:10,357
Were you not scared they could
see you when you did that?

696
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,397
Of course I was scared
someone would come downstairs.

697
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:15,677
But the cameras
could not see me.

698
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:19,797
The camera on the side was
already after the sensor.

699
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:21,237
It aimed to the other side.

700
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,957
I went alongside the
wall with my hand.

701
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,120
I fit perfectly.

702
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:33,840
So basically I have three nights to see
that the hairspray did not get darker,

703
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:38,680
because every morning, they
enter to clean the vault.

704
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,757
On closer inspection of the
rubbish from Floordambos

705
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:50,477
where we found this receipt
on 14th of February,

706
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,677
which is Friday evening
before the heist,

707
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:55,840
on 5:30 p.m.,

708
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,277
someone was buying...

709
00:50:58,360 --> 00:50:59,237
...from Brico,

710
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,680
a hardware store located in Mechelen
between Antwerp and Brussels...

711
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,277
...different items that
were used in the robbery.

712
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:09,237
For example, we
see here <i>"ragebol,"</i>

713
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:13,080
an extendable mop that was
found in the vault room.

714
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,477
So we had a drawer
from the federal police

715
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:20,240
who made an Identi-Kit picture

716
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,157
showing one of the, uh, people

717
00:51:23,240 --> 00:51:25,840
that bought that material
in the hardware store.

718
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,640
Sometimes on a case,
you get a feeling.

719
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:32,320
{\an8}We were getting closer.

720
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:35,920
{\an8}They were only just
out of our reach.

721
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:59,600
Come Saturday... we decided
to do it that evening.

722
00:52:00,720 --> 00:52:02,720
If not, it's over.

723
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:05,480
Why Saturday?

724
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:12,080
Saturday is the Sabbath for Jewish
people, and they don't go into the office.

725
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,280
The day of the hit,

726
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,120
they decided to have
me stay outside.

727
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:26,040
So they told me,

728
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:28,237
"Who could be better than you,

729
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:32,037
who has known the environment
for so many years,

730
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:34,677
who has studied it
actively for three years?"

731
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,077
"You know the policemen."

732
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:40,120
"Maybe you'll spot them in
plain clothes. You never know."

733
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:46,397
On one side, it was disappointing,
as I would have liked to be inside.

734
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:50,757
And on the other side, I understood
that what they said made sense.

735
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:57,160
It was not just to get rid of me.
Why would they want to get rid of me?

736
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,757
On the day of the heist,
Mr. Notarbartolo says

737
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:05,117
he was told by the gang

738
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:09,000
that, in fact, he was not to
go into the vault himself.

739
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:11,237
It's possible.

740
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:16,037
On the other hand, you have to
think that he was the only one

741
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:20,117
that in reality knew
the building inside out.

742
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:24,240
-So he might be lying?
-Uh, it's one of his habits, I suppose.

743
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:32,280
One by one, we set
off from my apartment.

744
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:37,960
In the final act, in the
end, how many are you?

745
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:40,917
We four were the main ones.

746
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:43,520
The Monster, the Genius,
the Key Master, and I.

747
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:48,680
The fifth was "My Friend."

748
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:56,680
He had excellent qualities
in our line of work.

749
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:01,637
But they had to wait
for me to arrive by car.

750
00:54:01,720 --> 00:54:07,437
I would park alongside, and
then they came to the door,

751
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:13,240
and I gave them the equipment I
had to pass to them, all suitcases.

752
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:22,400
So they got in and, as usual,
they ran along the wall.

753
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:31,960
Once there, they put the
stepladder up and got in.

754
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:46,397
From that moment, I turned around
again and went to the park.

755
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:50,560
From that position, I could
see the police cabin...

756
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,520
and I could see the main
door of our building.

757
00:54:58,720 --> 00:55:03,597
This is a model of the
floor of the vault,

758
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,680
looking exactly as it was.

759
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:12,160
They had to walk all the
corridors of the Center...

760
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:18,437
go down the stairs,

761
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:20,800
and exit through this door.

762
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:24,357
And when they came out,

763
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:28,480
they had to immediately
deactivate the two side cameras.

764
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:38,720
Once they had deactivated these,
they had to work on the main door.

765
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:44,840
The magnet, the numerical
combination, and the lock.

766
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:56,757
They took the small video
camera and watched it

767
00:55:56,840 --> 00:56:00,520
to see the last combination
that was entered that night.

768
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:17,557
The key worked
beautifully, very well,

769
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:22,320
but the third problem with
the door was the magnet.

770
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:27,040
Obviously, The Genius
had already studied it.

771
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:33,917
This is the magnetic
alarm system

772
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,077
that we found on Monday morning

773
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:38,117
when we stepped
into the vault room.

774
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:40,480
You see here two metal plates.

775
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:45,840
One metal plate was attached to
the vault door with four screws.

776
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,277
The other metal plate was
attached to the doorjamb.

777
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:52,677
If someone would try
to open the vault door

778
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,677
while the alarm is
still activated,

779
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:59,960
it would break the magnetic field,
and the alarm would set off.

780
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:07,480
{\an8}So we think they did some preparations
a few days earlier, before the heist.

781
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:18,877
You can detach this magnetic
plate from the vault door

782
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:21,437
by unscrewing these four screws,

783
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:25,437
and you can also detach this
metal plate from the doorjamb.

784
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:29,240
Next thing is they
shortened the screws

785
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:31,720
so that from the outside,

786
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:34,597
everything still looks fine,

787
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:40,440
but on the inside, the screws are
not attaching the door anymore.

788
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:44,077
Now, with double-sided tape,

789
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:49,197
they can attach these two metal
plates back in the original position

790
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:51,360
on the vault door
and to the jamb.

791
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:00,440
On the night of the heist,

792
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,520
they pulled them away
from the vault door.

793
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:08,040
Now the magnetic
field is still intact,

794
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,120
the alarm is still on,

795
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:13,200
but they are able to
open that vault door.

796
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:28,240
When you opened the door,

797
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:32,720
the first thing they found
were two anti-theft alarms.

798
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:37,240
One, the central one, was a
sensor that could detect light,

799
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:41,760
and another one could
detect heat and movement.

800
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:46,317
A sort of polystyrene
box was created.

801
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:50,797
It does not reflect
nor let the rays in,

802
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,080
and it doesn't let
the heat get out.

803
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:57,520
This was stressing me out.

804
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:04,200
Also because my
wife was calling me.

805
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:13,480
She suspected I might have
a woman, some affair...

806
00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:16,397
"Why didn't you come home
for Valentine's Day?"

807
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:21,320
"It was an important day to be
together, and you didn't come home."

808
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:29,277
It was truly a big stress.

809
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:32,160
When... When she gets
mad, she's terrifying.

810
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:42,120
They opened the vault door, they
neutralized all the alarm systems,

811
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:49,200
but now they are still facing
these 189 safe deposit boxes,

812
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,520
and each box had
an individual key

813
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:57,000
and a three-digit dial.

814
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:01,237
Now, for 189 safes,

815
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:06,357
you need 189 codes and
189 keys to open them.

816
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:12,920
Initially, we didn't have a clue how
those individual boxes were opened.

817
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:17,957
It was already more than
two hours past midnight

818
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:23,277
when he called me and said, "We
are ready to open the boxes."

819
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:29,200
"From now on, we are doing our job,
and in a few hours, we are out."

820
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,040
Now, in Floordambos,

821
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:38,680
we saw that these metal pieces
were found between the rubbish,

822
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:42,997
and we realized that some
of these metal pieces

823
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:44,960
were left in the vault room.

824
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:48,837
One of us was able
to combine them

825
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:52,440
into a kind of a... a
homemade construction.

826
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:57,000
Looking at the ingenuity
in their work...

827
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:01,080
...I could not believe this.

828
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:12,280
The whole tool looked a
bit like a corkscrew...

829
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:21,120
with two metal bars

830
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:26,120
that you can place on the
side of each safe deposit box.

831
01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:35,680
So with the handles, you
could actually turn...

832
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:39,600
...and put force on that lock,

833
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:42,480
forcing it to jump open.

834
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:48,917
In the morning, people would
start to move to get to work.

835
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:52,880
We had to be out at 5:00,
5:30 a.m., no later.

836
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:55,557
And this was a problem,

837
01:01:55,640 --> 01:02:00,560
because, with only one tool, he had
to open all those security boxes.

838
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:05,837
Stones do not
require much space.

839
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:09,960
Any other object
would require space.

840
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:15,200
They threw hundreds of
thousands on the floor.

841
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:26,080
I could not turn on the
car, so I had to stay cold.

842
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:32,600
I was nervous, very nervous.

843
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:41,160
Eventually, after three hours,
they called me and told me,

844
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:46,160
{\an8}"Uh, Leo, we are finishing.
We are stopping now."

845
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:50,357
"Move to the opposite
side, to Pelikaanstraat."

846
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:52,160
"Wait for us at the same spot."

847
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:19,600
I loaded all the goods and
equipment and headed home.

848
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:34,320
Getting home to my apartment,

849
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:38,400
the car is open, and I
take one suitcase upstairs.

850
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:42,360
Then someone gets another
suitcase and comes upstairs.

851
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:45,997
Once upstairs,
The Monster and I,

852
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:50,080
from my apartment,
go up to the roof.

853
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,760
The two of us went high up

854
01:03:54,640 --> 01:04:01,240
to hear if there were any sirens
or any agitation in the city.

855
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:06,760
We waited there for ten
minutes in the cold,

856
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:11,680
to listen to the city to
hear if something was wrong.

857
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:14,160
But we didn't hear anything.

858
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:24,840
We accomplished an endeavor
that looked so impenetrable.

859
01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:31,600
We felt really proud for doing
something so strong, powerful.

860
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:40,477
Don't you feel
guilty, for instance,

861
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:45,360
for people who lost
their business?

862
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:48,637
I don't feel guilty
due to one reason.

863
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:51,837
Everyone I robbed
always earned from it.

864
01:04:51,920 --> 01:04:53,240
How do you mean?

865
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:57,477
If I stole 10 kilos of gold,
they reported 30 kilos.

866
01:04:57,560 --> 01:05:00,760
If I stole 13, they said 25.

867
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,757
Do you mean that through
insurance they got more?

868
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:07,840
Of course.

869
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:14,040
I mean, I'm dishonest, but in the
end... ...facts are different.

870
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:19,040
Bullshit.

871
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:22,000
Sorry for my language,
but that's... that's big.

872
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:24,800
It's very stupid to
believe like that.

873
01:05:28,080 --> 01:05:33,680
The cost of insurance is a big cost
that diamond companies have to bear.

874
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:36,517
The Diamond Center
was considered

875
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:39,480
the safest of all the
premises you could be in.

876
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:42,960
So most prefer not
to take insurance.

877
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:49,600
A hundred percent of my
assets were wiped away.

878
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:54,040
A few days after the robbery,

879
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:57,000
we were allowed to
go into the vault.

880
01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:04,000
There was an older man, sitting
on the ground, crying like a baby.

881
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:11,560
Somebody, uh, stole
the work of his life.

882
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:18,717
And when a thief wipes with his
hand, saying, "It's nothing,"

883
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:21,760
and minimizes the
implication of his acts,

884
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:25,240
it's disgusting.

885
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:32,077
We had a small party, you know.

886
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:34,160
We drank and ate everything.

887
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:42,720
In the apartment, we glanced
over the goods we had taken

888
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:46,480
and worked out that,
to the naked eye,

889
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:49,440
it could have been
close to 100 million.

890
01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:56,037
The sole reason
that they succeeded

891
01:06:56,120 --> 01:07:00,400
was the successful reconnaissance
done by Mr. Notarbartolo.

892
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:05,960
If you get that far,

893
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:08,960
people can feel more relaxed.

894
01:07:12,520 --> 01:07:16,280
But at the same time,
you might make mistakes.

895
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:28,077
The appointment was
the following day,

896
01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:34,440
for everyone, if everything had gone
well, to meet in Italy, in Brescia,

897
01:07:35,480 --> 01:07:37,680
to divide the loot

898
01:07:38,200 --> 01:07:43,080
and decide who'd take
care of selling the loot.

899
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:49,837
Anything we had touched,

900
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:52,557
we touched with
gloves and with masks,

901
01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:56,117
for fear of saliva
going anywhere...

902
01:07:56,200 --> 01:08:00,317
For the rubbish, it was decided
that I should take the bags

903
01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:04,400
as I had found a
place to burn them.

904
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:07,757
And I went to take a shower,

905
01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:11,640
so I didn't see what
happened in that room.

906
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:17,840
Someone from the group, I don't
know who it could have been,

907
01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:24,597
took the garbage bag
from my apartment,

908
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:26,717
from when we ate our meal,

909
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:30,040
and they throw that
in the bag too.

910
01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:42,640
I get out of the shower, but I
don't know what was thrown inside.

911
01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:49,200
I saw "My Friend," who was there ready.
I told him, "You come with me of course."

912
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:56,360
"We will take out the rubbish.
I know where to burn it."

913
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:01,960
We leave Antwerp and
get on the highway.

914
01:09:03,280 --> 01:09:07,077
All of a sudden, he says, "No, I
want to take the train, go to Paris,

915
01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:08,920
and from Paris
I'll go to Turin."

916
01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:14,440
That really disappointed me.

917
01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:20,480
So at the last minute, we found a
different spot from what I had decided.

918
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:28,597
You enter this country lane
which ends in this groove.

919
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:30,800
Always running
alongside the highway.

920
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:37,480
I noticed, in passing, that on
the left there was a wooden house.

921
01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:50,480
And I told him, "Wait a second, so I
can check what's inside the house."

922
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:53,120
"I'll go check that
the owner isn't there."

923
01:09:57,120 --> 01:09:58,557
As I was going
towards the house,

924
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:02,960
when I was almost, let's
say, 20 meters away...

925
01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:07,600
there was a kind
of metallic crash.

926
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:14,637
With something metallic falling,
I thought someone was there.

927
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:16,477
I can't possibly
burn anything here.

928
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:18,040
When I got back,

929
01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:20,957
I don't know why, but he...

930
01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:26,077
Partly because the bin bags got
tangled in the weeds and the wood,

931
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,877
and they had ripped, at that
point, a lot of things had fallen,

932
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:31,760
and he scattered it there.

933
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:37,080
It was impossible to
pick everything up.

934
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:45,397
I said, "Look, the owner
is probably there."

935
01:10:45,480 --> 01:10:47,677
"If he sees the license
plate, he can report us."

936
01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:50,960
"We've just thrown some
garbage. Let's get out of here."

937
01:10:54,160 --> 01:10:55,360
Carelessness?

938
01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:57,240
Tiredness?

939
01:10:58,080 --> 01:10:59,720
Call it what you want.

940
01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:03,520
We got back in the
car, and we left.

941
01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:06,677
I left him at the station

942
01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:10,400
and carried on alone.

943
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:15,800
We all had to meet the
following day in Brescia.

944
01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:20,520
I headed towards the border...

945
01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:25,920
and I arrived in Italy
at 7:00 in the morning.

946
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:33,720
We met up in an
apartment in Brescia.

947
01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:38,357
Starting with the
pleasantries, "How are you?"

948
01:11:38,440 --> 01:11:40,637
Hugs and kisses.

949
01:11:40,720 --> 01:11:44,477
I said, "It's upsetting, but I
have to tell you about something

950
01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:46,520
that happened on the way here."

951
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:52,197
And they were all
relaxed about it.

952
01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:57,440
They said, "What can happen? They
can't get to us from the rubbish."

953
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:02,117
And they said,

954
01:12:02,200 --> 01:12:07,157
"You should go back to
Antwerp to return the car,

955
01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:08,997
to pay for the office,

956
01:12:09,080 --> 01:12:11,000
to pay rent for the apartment."

957
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:16,080
I had to look like I
had nothing to hide.

958
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:21,000
Leonardo, you have just
stolen a lot of money.

959
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:24,320
Weren't you taking
a bit of a risk?

960
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:32,157
I scoured the TV newscasts for my
name, but I didn't find it anywhere.

961
01:12:32,240 --> 01:12:36,637
I mean, that's why I had
the confidence in me to say,

962
01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:40,600
"Okay, I'm at ease
going to Antwerp."

963
01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:46,760
And so it happened.
I stopped in Turin.

964
01:12:48,440 --> 01:12:52,877
My wife said, "Since you're
going on a round trip,

965
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:56,837
I'll take the car with you, and
then we can come back together."

966
01:12:56,920 --> 01:12:59,360
"I wanna go see what this
apartment looks like."

967
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:03,397
My wife is obsessed with
cleaning apartments.

968
01:13:03,480 --> 01:13:06,397
She'll even clean your
apartment if she goes there.

969
01:13:06,480 --> 01:13:08,080
That's just her nature.

970
01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:17,197
During that first week,
we were hardly at home.

971
01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:18,797
And even if you are at home,

972
01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:24,360
still your mind and my brains were
thinking only about this case.

973
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:30,757
When I was driving back
home on my motorcycle,

974
01:13:30,840 --> 01:13:33,360
I saw that I missed
three phone calls.

975
01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:38,877
I heard my colleague,
Gerry Vanderkelen...

976
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:43,440
...saying that they received
news from the Diamond Center

977
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:47,760
that Mr. Notarbartolo
had returned to Antwerp.

978
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:51,520
And at that moment, he
was in the Diamond Center.

979
01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:56,117
And I thought, repeat
this again, please.

980
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:59,280
Leonardo Notarbartolo,
our main suspect,

981
01:13:59,960 --> 01:14:01,437
returned to Antwerp

982
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:05,237
and was standing now,
waiting in the building

983
01:14:05,320 --> 01:14:08,240
that he had robbed
a week before?

984
01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:10,920
It's unbelievable.

985
01:14:11,440 --> 01:14:14,357
"He's there. He's located
in the Diamond Center."

986
01:14:14,440 --> 01:14:17,557
"Get your ass here
to the office."

987
01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:19,157
I had to take the highway.

988
01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:23,120
I didn't have too much traffic. It
took me only 15 minutes to get there.

989
01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:25,080
Indeed, I was excited.

990
01:14:26,960 --> 01:14:31,360
So I got back on my motorcycle
and back to the office.

991
01:14:37,120 --> 01:14:40,837
When I got near my office,

992
01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:43,080
I saw the manager at the door.

993
01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:50,237
From the interrogations
during that week,

994
01:14:50,320 --> 01:14:51,957
the building manager realized

995
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:55,317
that one of our main suspects
was Mr. Notarbartolo,

996
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:58,600
because we were constantly
asking information about him.

997
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:02,317
She saw me, "Mr. Notarbartolo,
Mr. Notarbartolo!"

998
01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:06,957
"Have you heard what happened?
There's been a theft in our vault!"

999
01:15:07,040 --> 01:15:09,277
I told my colleague Gerry, like,

1000
01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:13,517
"Make sure that you send
immediately people to arrest him."

1001
01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:15,197
I remember it like yesterday.

1002
01:15:15,280 --> 01:15:19,200
I was a driver, and believe
me, I drove like hell.

1003
01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:25,997
So we arrived just in front
of the Diamond Center,

1004
01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:30,157
and, uh, we immediately
run into the building.

1005
01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:34,640
When I saw her delaying, I realized
the police were on the way.

1006
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:38,397
In the hallway, we saw
the building manager

1007
01:15:38,480 --> 01:15:40,077
together with Mr. Notarbartolo.

1008
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:42,837
I had no way out
anymore, at that point.

1009
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:47,080
By then, you surrender.
Let's face the situation.

1010
01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:51,080
I spoke to him. I said,
"Mr. Notarbartolo."

1011
01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:54,680
"Good evening, sir."

1012
01:15:56,120 --> 01:16:00,280
"My name is Gerry Vanderkelen,
and I'm going to arrest you."

1013
01:16:02,440 --> 01:16:08,560
We handcuffed him, and I think
he never asked any questions.

1014
01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:10,240
Nothing at all.

1015
01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:23,197
One week after the heist,

1016
01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:28,080
we actually have our main suspect
arrested and sitting in our car.

1017
01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:31,640
That was a wonderful feeling.

1018
01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:38,437
I asked him, like, "Okay, Gerry,
but we don't know his hideout,

1019
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:41,320
so try to find out
where he is staying."

1020
01:16:47,920 --> 01:16:49,837
They tried as good
as they could.

1021
01:16:49,920 --> 01:16:55,720
"Okay, point out which direction we
have to drive to go to your house."

1022
01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:00,997
And I tried to beat
around the bush.

1023
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:03,317
I tried not to tell
them that. Right?

1024
01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:05,397
And all these following minutes,

1025
01:17:05,480 --> 01:17:08,877
they were circling around
the diamond district,

1026
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:11,840
but no house was found.

1027
01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:19,357
He said a few times, "It's too
dark. I always go by foot."

1028
01:17:19,440 --> 01:17:21,637
"I don't remember
the full address."

1029
01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:23,160
"Not sure about
the house number."

1030
01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:27,400
My colleagues did not
stop asking the question.

1031
01:17:27,960 --> 01:17:29,477
"Is it this street?
Is it this street?"

1032
01:17:29,560 --> 01:17:33,640
"Take your time. Take your
time and find his house."

1033
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:39,837
He then suddenly decided that he
remembered where he was staying.

1034
01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:43,800
In an apartment,
Charlottalei number 33.

1035
01:17:45,280 --> 01:17:48,320
We parked our car almost
in front of the building.

1036
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:52,120
And he says, "I'm staying
at the seventh floor."

1037
01:17:53,120 --> 01:17:56,357
And both colleagues are
looking at the seventh floor,

1038
01:17:56,440 --> 01:17:58,877
and at the same time
as they are looking,

1039
01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:03,320
they see that the lights on
the seventh floor go out.

1040
01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:12,317
The door opens,

1041
01:18:12,400 --> 01:18:16,240
and three people step
out of the apartment,

1042
01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:21,600
the wife of Mr. Notarbartolo
and the two other friends.

1043
01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:25,397
One man is carrying a
carpet on his shoulder.

1044
01:18:25,480 --> 01:18:27,160
Yeah, a carpet. Yeah.

1045
01:18:28,840 --> 01:18:31,797
Like in the movies. A carpet.

1046
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:34,840
-On their shoulder?
-On their shoulder. A carpet.

1047
01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:37,997
First of all, they ask,

1048
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:41,917
"Sir, what are you planning
to do with this carpet?"

1049
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:46,560
And the first reaction of this
guy is like, "Which carpet?"

1050
01:18:48,480 --> 01:18:53,080
At that moment, I saw some
change in Mr. Notarbartolo's...

1051
01:18:54,160 --> 01:18:55,200
in his face.

1052
01:18:56,760 --> 01:18:59,677
I think he must realize
at a certain moment,

1053
01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:02,000
"Shit, what have I done?"

1054
01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:05,400
My wife?

1055
01:19:11,880 --> 01:19:12,880
Well, this...

1056
01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:16,600
pains me.

1057
01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:22,120
She's never, ever abandoned
me. She's never left me alone.

1058
01:19:26,360 --> 01:19:27,360
Wait a moment.

1059
01:19:29,400 --> 01:19:30,477
It's all right.

1060
01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:35,040
No, when I talk about these things,
I have a hard time, unfortunately.

1061
01:19:39,400 --> 01:19:42,277
The police officers took
the people in custody,

1062
01:19:42,360 --> 01:19:45,437
and the laboratory was
asked to go to Charlottalei,

1063
01:19:45,520 --> 01:19:47,877
where the apartment was,

1064
01:19:47,960 --> 01:19:49,880
to have a thorough
investigation.

1065
01:19:51,200 --> 01:19:52,637
There was food in the fridge,

1066
01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:57,037
there were chairs around the table, there
was a bottle of grappa, there were...

1067
01:19:57,120 --> 01:20:00,277
...toothbrushes, uh,
razor blades, tissues.

1068
01:20:00,360 --> 01:20:04,557
Also there's a small leather
bag, some kind of toilet bag,

1069
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:07,037
and on the side,
they made a hole.

1070
01:20:07,120 --> 01:20:11,920
And this hole, actually, was
perfect to fit a video camera in.

1071
01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:19,197
We also found a receipt from a
local supermarket in Antwerp,

1072
01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:20,360
Delhaize.

1073
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:24,077
On that receipt, we saw
different food items,

1074
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:27,477
like wine, pasta,
cheese, and salami,

1075
01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:31,717
and pieces of that food we
found back in Floordambos.

1076
01:20:31,800 --> 01:20:34,757
So as soon as we had
Mr. Notarbartolo into custody,

1077
01:20:34,840 --> 01:20:36,637
we could easily get his DNA.

1078
01:20:36,720 --> 01:20:41,357
And then we saw that his
DNA matched with the DNA

1079
01:20:41,440 --> 01:20:45,320
found on the half-eaten salami
sandwich in the Floordambos.

1080
01:20:46,680 --> 01:20:50,477
But second of all, the receipt
mentioned the date, 13 February,

1081
01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:53,997
two days before the heist, around
1:00 p.m. in the afternoon.

1082
01:20:54,080 --> 01:20:56,757
So we went to the supermarket

1083
01:20:56,840 --> 01:20:59,960
to see whether we could
find any footage still.

1084
01:21:01,280 --> 01:21:03,997
And on the footage,
we saw a... a guy

1085
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:07,757
that was actually approaching
the checkout at the supermarket

1086
01:21:07,840 --> 01:21:09,760
to pay for all the items.

1087
01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:14,717
Very tall guy,
sportive, short hair.

1088
01:21:14,800 --> 01:21:20,640
And we were able to identify
this man as Ferdinando Finotto.

1089
01:21:25,080 --> 01:21:31,237
The most important evidence that
we found was two SIM card holders.

1090
01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:35,917
One of them mentioned <i>"mio,"</i> and
the other mentioned <i>"non-mio."</i>

1091
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:40,560
As far as my Italian goes, it
means like "mine" and "not mine."

1092
01:21:42,040 --> 01:21:44,560
The SIM card holder
had a serial number.

1093
01:21:45,360 --> 01:21:46,717
From the serial number,

1094
01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:49,960
you can, first of all,
identify the SIM card,

1095
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:53,640
in which telephone
the SIM card was put,

1096
01:21:54,440 --> 01:21:57,800
and you can actually follow
the movements of the SIM card.

1097
01:21:59,480 --> 01:22:01,680
First important
result was that...

1098
01:22:03,080 --> 01:22:05,360
...the weekend of
the actual robbery,

1099
01:22:07,240 --> 01:22:11,197
these SIM cards, we can
place under the cell tower

1100
01:22:11,280 --> 01:22:15,040
of Charlottalei number
33, from where they start.

1101
01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:17,757
Then, during the night,

1102
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:20,157
from Saturday and Sunday,

1103
01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:23,600
under the cell tower
of Diamond Center.

1104
01:22:25,440 --> 01:22:26,637
After 6:00 a.m.,

1105
01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:32,640
we see these cards again
activated in Charlottalei 33.

1106
01:22:35,280 --> 01:22:38,797
Afterwards, our targets
left from the apartment

1107
01:22:38,880 --> 01:22:43,840
and drove straight to a place
in Italy called Brescia,

1108
01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:47,960
coming together under the
same cell tower over there.

1109
01:22:51,360 --> 01:22:53,920
Maybe they are specialists
on alarm systems,

1110
01:22:54,440 --> 01:22:59,720
but they were certainly not aware of what
the possibilities are to follow a phone.

1111
01:23:03,080 --> 01:23:05,677
The carpet, which was
retrieved downstairs,

1112
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:07,797
was back put into the apartment,

1113
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:13,800
and from the moment we unrolled it,
it all began to, uh... to sparkle.

1114
01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:20,077
The nice thing is that in
the trash of Floordambos,

1115
01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:23,237
we have found small
green emeralds,

1116
01:23:23,320 --> 01:23:26,920
and in the carpet, there were
also small green emeralds.

1117
01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:31,080
So we decided to have the
stones examined by an expert,

1118
01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:33,517
who came to the conclusion

1119
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:37,397
these were all stones from
the same shipment, let's say.

1120
01:23:37,480 --> 01:23:40,040
So these stones
belonged to each other.

1121
01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:44,437
Based on these green emeralds,

1122
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:47,440
we could link the
apartment with Floordambos.

1123
01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:52,240
And automatically then, actually,
you can link it with the vault room.

1124
01:23:53,040 --> 01:23:56,917
So we had this triangle now
of these three crime scenes

1125
01:23:57,000 --> 01:23:58,760
that were linked
with each other.

1126
01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:13,680
Based on the telephone records
and on the DNA profiles,

1127
01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:19,077
we were able to
identify four people

1128
01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:22,920
as 100% sure that they were
involved in this crime.

1129
01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:27,400
Four suspects were arrested for
the diamond heist in Antwerp.

1130
01:24:28,160 --> 01:24:29,640
Ferdinando Finotto.

1131
01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:35,080
Elio D'Onorio.

1132
01:24:38,760 --> 01:24:40,637
And from the telephone records,

1133
01:24:40,720 --> 01:24:46,320
we could finally identify a
third person, Mr. Pietro Tavano,

1134
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:49,960
an old friend of
Mr. Notarbartolo,

1135
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:54,640
and also a member of
The School of Turin.

1136
01:24:57,920 --> 01:25:00,957
The fourth person
was Mr. Notarbartolo.

1137
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:03,277
Now, based on all the
evidence that we had,

1138
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:08,680
it was clear that he was not
only present during this heist,

1139
01:25:10,600 --> 01:25:14,240
but that he also was the
mastermind of this whole operation.

1140
01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:18,197
<i>Leonardo Notarbartolo,
jeweler from Turin,</i>

1141
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:20,437
<i>arrived in Antwerp
in November 2000.</i>

1142
01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:23,317
<i>He immediately rented an
office at the Diamond Center,</i>

1143
01:25:23,400 --> 01:25:25,400
<i>the building where the
robbery took place.</i>

1144
01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:31,317
Leonardo, was the only
reason you came to Antwerp

1145
01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:32,520
in 2000

1146
01:25:33,120 --> 01:25:36,400
because you were in fact the
mastermind of this heist?

1147
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:37,960
No.

1148
01:25:39,040 --> 01:25:41,597
I mean, I got nothing.

1149
01:25:41,680 --> 01:25:43,960
I never got a penny from anyone.

1150
01:25:44,840 --> 01:25:47,560
The mastermind is Alessandro.

1151
01:25:48,480 --> 01:25:53,837
To be honest, I've always
thought of him as a ghost.

1152
01:25:53,920 --> 01:25:58,520
I mean, he appeared and he
disappeared, like... I don't know what.

1153
01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:04,040
The whole story about Alessandro...
I mean, yeah, no, sorry.

1154
01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:09,037
If there was any Alessandro
in the diamond area,

1155
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:10,357
we would have found him.

1156
01:26:10,440 --> 01:26:12,837
<i>He said his name was Alessandro.</i>

1157
01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:15,000
<i>It probably wasn't
his real name.</i>

1158
01:26:17,920 --> 01:26:22,800
We analyzed more than
200,000 telephone contacts.

1159
01:26:23,320 --> 01:26:25,517
We have DNA profiles.

1160
01:26:25,600 --> 01:26:28,157
We interrogated so many people.

1161
01:26:28,240 --> 01:26:30,960
<i>He said, "I know
exactly who you are."</i>

1162
01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:35,077
We found trash and
paper in Floordambos,

1163
01:26:35,160 --> 01:26:36,437
in the diamond vault.

1164
01:26:36,520 --> 01:26:40,357
We did house searches on his
apartment, in his office.

1165
01:26:40,440 --> 01:26:44,600
The name Alessandro, I
have never heard of. Never.

1166
01:26:46,360 --> 01:26:47,360
It is a fiction.

1167
01:26:48,640 --> 01:26:50,440
Meeting in a warehouse?

1168
01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:52,320
Spy pens?

1169
01:26:53,960 --> 01:26:55,240
Replica vaults?

1170
01:26:56,480 --> 01:26:58,557
This isn't the story of a crime.

1171
01:26:58,640 --> 01:27:00,720
It's more like the
script of a movie.

1172
01:27:02,720 --> 01:27:06,400
There was no super criminal
lurking in the background.

1173
01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:08,560
It was just him.

1174
01:27:09,160 --> 01:27:11,840
Mr. Notarbartolo
is a smart person.

1175
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:15,080
He knows the diamond world.

1176
01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:18,277
<i>Did you know there was a vault</i>

1177
01:27:18,360 --> 01:27:19,717
<i>inside the Diamond Center?</i>

1178
01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:22,000
Yes, sure. I knew it.

1179
01:27:26,760 --> 01:27:29,077
And from our investigation,

1180
01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:31,517
we only can conclude

1181
01:27:31,600 --> 01:27:36,400
that Mr. Notarbartolo was the
head of a criminal organization.

1182
01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:42,000
A bunch of guys from
The School of Turin,

1183
01:27:42,840 --> 01:27:46,240
especially assigned to
do a particular job.

1184
01:27:50,040 --> 01:27:52,357
<i>The Italian Leonardo
Notarbartolo</i>

1185
01:27:52,440 --> 01:27:54,797
<i>was far from impressed
this morning.</i>

1186
01:27:54,880 --> 01:27:58,317
<i>The judge gave him the expected
ten years for the diamond heist.</i>

1187
01:27:58,400 --> 01:28:00,637
<i>Three other gang members
were jailed for five years.</i>

1188
01:28:00,720 --> 01:28:04,240
<i>According to the judges, Notarbartolo
was one of the gang's leaders.</i>

1189
01:28:45,040 --> 01:28:47,040
Take 16.

1190
01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:56,437
Back in... in 2015,

1191
01:28:56,520 --> 01:29:00,837
you yourself were arrested
and ultimately convicted

1192
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:06,080
because hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of diamonds were found in your home.

1193
01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:09,437
What do you have to...

1194
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:13,157
It is, um, it is correct
that I was, uh, in 2015,

1195
01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:16,520
that I was hiding, uh,
diamonds in my house.

1196
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:21,277
Um, I was not laundering anything.
I never sold any diamonds.

1197
01:29:21,360 --> 01:29:25,397
I never, uh, bought any
diamond or whatever.

1198
01:29:25,480 --> 01:29:27,037
I made a mistake.

1199
01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:30,957
Um, I had reasons... I had
my reasons to... to do this.

1200
01:29:31,040 --> 01:29:33,277
Um, but one thing is for sure.

1201
01:29:33,360 --> 01:29:36,237
Whatever happened in 2015,

1202
01:29:36,320 --> 01:29:42,277
has nothing to do with the investigation
of, uh, of the diamond heist in 2003.

1203
01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:43,797
That's 12 years later.

1204
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:45,477
The fact that I lost my job

1205
01:29:45,560 --> 01:29:49,200
and that I cannot perform
anymore as a police officer,

1206
01:29:49,800 --> 01:29:52,357
it almost destroyed
me personally.

1207
01:29:52,440 --> 01:29:56,317
I mean... it's clear
that in your career,

1208
01:29:56,400 --> 01:29:59,277
that you will face,
uh, difficulties,

1209
01:29:59,360 --> 01:30:01,520
and that there are, uh, yeah...

1210
01:30:02,800 --> 01:30:06,877
...moments that you have to
be, uh, strong and smarter.

1211
01:30:06,960 --> 01:30:10,717
But, again, I faced
the consequences.

1212
01:30:10,800 --> 01:30:15,400
I lost my job, and that, um,
that was... that's a pity.

1213
01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:20,317
Everyone deserves
a second chance.

1214
01:30:20,400 --> 01:30:21,400
That's what I...

1215
01:30:24,280 --> 01:30:26,080
That's what I constantly hear.

1216
01:30:26,800 --> 01:30:30,360
But to get that second chance,

1217
01:30:31,520 --> 01:30:32,680
it's not so easy.

1218
01:31:05,680 --> 01:31:08,040
No diamonds or
money was recovered.

1219
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:15,277
At the very end, we came up
with the 100 million US dollars.

1220
01:31:15,360 --> 01:31:18,357
But again, if you ask
me today, honestly,

1221
01:31:18,440 --> 01:31:20,797
I'm absolutely sure

1222
01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:24,800
that the amount is much higher
than 100 million US dollars.

1223
01:31:32,360 --> 01:31:34,957
Think he's got the money?
You think he's got his cut?

1224
01:31:35,040 --> 01:31:38,037
Probably he got the
most of all of them.

1225
01:31:38,120 --> 01:31:42,757
He's not driving around Turin now
in a Ferrari, that's for sure.

1226
01:31:42,840 --> 01:31:45,637
And that is... that
is very smart of him.

1227
01:31:45,720 --> 01:31:47,880
But we know him as a smart guy.