The $100 Million Belgian Diamond Heist Explained
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“And you could do it with supplies from Walmart”
*They perfectly recreated the vault*
Yeah Walmart sell vaults. Buy 1 get 1 free
@@alwaysdisputin9930 they are on sale now
He means in the actual heist not the preparation 😜
aegian48 Thanks for ruining the joke
One Soviet Flag Boi you’re described as a soviet flag. Jokes aren’t allowed in soviet Russia...
When your crew is all level 600+ and have done countless spreedruns on the heist blindfolded, and you get a random level 15 who leaves behind his sandwich. *smh*
Glunji ahhh i find these comments cringy
@@terrariabookshhelf6317 lmao, I think they're funny
Filiboy yes i do infact have autism. it is diagnosed aswell.
@@terrariabookshhelf6317 Wow. Great move.
@@justiceschmidt2594 yeah, seems like you mastered this skill :D7
"and, why are you in prison?"
"Well I threw a salami sandwich out of the window"
"My FRIEND threw a sandwich out of the window" XD
**goes to the other side of the bench**
@@PsychoDiesel48 I cant help but wonder how they linked a sandwich on the side of the road to him. like what was with it that made police think "a sandwich?? this must be important!"
@@calvindibartolo2686 likely they sectioned off the supposed escape routes and just were meticulously looking for any lead at all. Just so happens food is a great lead to where people were.
So you didn't see the sign that said you weren't allow to throw away any trash ? Tsss tsss tssss.... 13 years ! Slam ! Next case !
The “Italian diamond merchant” was probably Lester
hahahahhahahahahhaahhahaha
NaThanos Ik dame well u ain’t laughing
moe
Ya micheal brad and trevor
And nico
Unfortunately, carrying out a diamond heist is not on skillshare.
...yet
@@adolfodef lol
Yet
😆😆😆
Daniel Bickforxxxxxxxssz
Moral of the story: Wait until after the heist to eat your sandwich.
Mybuttox R. Smooth or finish it before
Ahmad Sheikh-Ali Nah. After the heist would mean once they’re safely away from any other possible way of being found. So eat your sandwich once you get home. Not on the car ride
Yep that’s the moral
but what if im sooo hungry....i need energy to run away from the police
coldogno7 then don’t throw it out the damn car lol
Guy didn’t snitch after ten years. That’s a real hero.
Yeah
i hope when he gets out or if he is for the guys to give him money xd
I'm not sure the word "hero" applies here, I'd leave that one for brave firemen and police men saving hostages, but yes, some admiration is not out of its place here.
imagine if his boys just left him and he was left with no money
@@Retroscoop hero should never be used to refer to a job where you sacrifice yourself for. It allows policy makers and politicians to avoid fairly paying them because heroes don’t do it for pay.
Honestly they kinda deserved to get away with that much planning lol
It is still of course a robbery (and inherently immoral) but it is hell of a lot more moral than most crimes - no fatalities, they stole insured money only, didn't hurt anyone, e.t.c.
Dude, if you were like the president of that country you would be freaking out ordering the USA to get its tannks out
Iv Schaumburg not every country has a president
@@ratiemand4529 ik
@@ivschaumburg775 why the US? You know Belgium has it's own armed forces? So does the rest of the EU?
The biggest heist is the double ads I see before the video
My videos are worth it though ;)
you savage hahah
adblock
RUclips can make you watch 2 ads now
absoluely.
Imagine how many Toyota Corollas you could buy with those diamonds
Jessara 21 why does he use that as a form of measurement?? Lol. He’s like this dinasour can grow up to 40 Toyota corollas long
Come on down to your local Toyota dealer and get revved up for the toyotathon event with your stolen Belgian diamond money
Scotty Kilmer would like to:
📍Know your location
5128.
You could get at least 4
"They built a replica of the vault"
*Ocean's Eleven intensifies*
More like Oceans Eleven Hundred IQ
@@heliveruscalion9124 except that one guy with the sandwich
@@smallsthetimelord4066 hey he was hungry
Man, everyone talking about the “Diamond casino heist,” when they should really be referring to The Big Score, for the union depository.
No
“THE BIG ONE”
lifeasparty T.R Yes
G-Not- Found I swear it was called The Big Score somewhere.
@@ethangreen5416 thats the missions real name "The Big Score" no joke
The reason they managed to successfully rob diamonds was because the diamond center didn't use dashlane
sir, i second-ed this.
If only
dashlane is just a fishing scam by hackers to put all your passwords in one easy to access place think about it
@@thewhitewolf58
No way. Simon recommends it, so it has to be the best 😭
This is one of the greatest comment I read 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Who would win?
3 years of careful planning with a perfectly executed plan that result in the greatest heist of the century
Vs
One salami boi
God. Can this meme just die already.
Kalazakan no
Kalazakan NO
@@kalazakan no (1)
NO.
“This is the LockPickingLawyer and today we are going to break into the Antwerp Diamond District diamond vault. Let’s get started, binding on 1, 2 is binding, and opened.”
Thiefs: this is going to be the perfect heist
Sandwich: *are you sure about that?*
i can’t even make a grilled cheese at midnight without getting caught by my mom
That might be why you've never been recruited to commit a crime... XD
@@peachwallets7647 stfu
@@remithechampionaasbo Many have tried, but unfortunately I cannot be censored.
@@peachwallets7647 and you can't read a joke without commenting unnecesarry hate either
@@remithechampionaasbo False. I can read a joke without commenting unnecessary hate, but what you typed would be considered offensive to 95% percent of the population and so it probably wasn't a joke. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Who else was lowkey routing for the robbers
they Gotta turn this to a movie
I take routes for all the robbers
Low key?
i was rooting highkey for the robbers
Me
Netflix be taking notes for the next season of la casa de papel
i was searching for this comment
@@anvi3969 me too
me just planning for my next gta heist
this comment aged very well
Imagine planning the whole heist for 3 years to perfection, just have a noob messing it up at the last moment…
He didn't snitch on his friends because he is going to meet with them after he's done serving. That's pretty obvi.
I'm surprised he just got 10 years??????!!!!!!
you don't get a lot in prison for robberies and stuff like that. Only if you've harmed or killed people in the process.
Chikan No, it was because he was the getaway driver, and not someone involved with the actual robbery.
JamezzGamezz and JumboJ - Geometry Dash And probably because this happened in Europe. They have pretty lenient sentences in a majority of Europe when compared to the US.
JamezzGamezz and JumboJ - Geometry Dash That is involved in the actual robbery. And also he was the leader and mastermind those people usually get hit the hardest
The max sentence for robbery if you don't harm someone is five years unless you are the mastermind in which case its ten so he got the max sentence
Those diamonds still aren’t worth as much as Minecraft Diamonds.
But it worths more than your petty metal computer.
Well at least these won’t fall in lava
Blue diamonds are accually extrmemly expensive
@@caesar1700
OwO!
Tbh your comment isn't even a joke because it is true...
Minecraft diamonds are ten times more rare than real diamonds and real diamonds are just that expensive because of a company which decided to make it look rare and expensive
And to think that the only reason why diamonds are as expensive as they are, is because one company mining useless, pretty rocks, said they were. That's what constantly throws me for a loop.
Yeah,the deBeers corporation
they're expenisve because they're so rare and also the hardest minerals
@@robbegeens2885 They're actually not rare at all. Not even slightly. The only reason why they appear to be rare is because diamond miners artificially limit supply, basically like Supreme but 100-odd years ago. Also, synthetic diamonds are just as hard, and are just about cheap as chips. So cheap that it's inconsequential to incorporate them into tools and grind them into dust.
Diamonds are quite rare lol. Among gems they don’t belong to the rarest, but that does not mean they are not rare. Gems are in general quite rare.
@@milantenbosch Dude they might not be as common as other stuff but that does not mean that they are rare. They certainly aren't rare enough to justify the rediculous price tag that they carry.
It's all just an extremely, extremely seccessfull ad campaign from a greedy corporation that has a monopoly over the diamond industry. They artificially lower their production and thus increas their price.
That would've been the best heist ever done if that damn sandwich wasn't thrown out the window. It may have never been heard of if they got away with it.
Exactly. That's the thing. We'd never know about how awesome this heist was, or indeed even that a heist took place at all, if the guy wasn't caught. I bet there's at least one other perfect heist out there, we just don't know about it because they pulled it off without getting caught and the victims never publicized it.
@@jonathanguito1168 the diamonds are stored, not owned by the place, imagine being a diamond merchant and storing your diamonds on the most secure diamond depostory in the world only for it to get stolen, you would call every source of media to get your justice, even if they don't notice how it's getting stolen, or by whome, they'll know it's stolen when they see the vault afterwards.
@@zet5697 or you'd just cash in on the insurance and are actually happy about having the most successful business day of the year
Imagine losing 13 years of your life because of a sandwich 😂
*because of deciding to be a criminal ftfy xD
how did the cops find it
A curmudgeonly retiree called in to complain about garbage being dumpd on his property. When they checked the bags they found envelopes from Antwerp gloves, video tape and the sandwich. So they knew where it came from and got the DNA.
*10
@@williamgalloway4798 Plus the 3 years he stayed at the diamond district gaining everyones trust.
Real life lore: They did this using only things from Walmart
My to do list:
Go to Walmart
Don’t eat sandwich
Earn money
lol
Salami sandwiches are the *_key_* to crimes.
you mean : fully eat sandwich
"So far so bueno. Now push on to the vault."
My man
people that is the motherlode!
Gas coming 10 seconds!
“You can get 100 million dollars in one night”
“They practiced for 3 years”
Who will win
A Strategical team who have practiced countless hours to master stealing priceless diamonds from one of if not the most secure bank ever
Or
*One meaty boi*
*One Meaty Boi*
will win
meaty boi?
Oh no...
*MEATBALL MAN-*
remind me of Otzdarva Haha
*bread*
The team, he never ratted them out.
That guy must have been famous in prison
He dint go to prison hes still alive but he lives under high supervision by the FBI
@@cocolocobros8457 How does he live under FBI supervision, when he's European and committed his crime and got caught IN EUROPE?
Racemixer Berg
FBI : Shut up and I’ll give you free mcdonalds
Gotta also note that, it was said he was spending 10 years in prison, and yeah FBI, in Europe, totally.
Racemixer Berg he moved to US I guess. He was arrested again during a layover in Paris when he flew from the US to Turin. So I assume he moved there
Police: Why did you do it?
Thief: It just sounded like Fun lol
*Me silently looking for someone who have watched the money heist in the comments*
I am from Belgium and did you know there was another heist on a bank a couple of months ago where they literally DUG A TUNNEL UNDERGROUND to the vaults.
We have bad security lel
Dat was zo erg
I'm from Belgium too and I went to Antwerp 2 month's ago and I was so surprised that when I passed where the heist happened I only saw 1 security guard, for the whole district. Allee komaan wat is dat nu!
Malaysians did this like, in the 90s dude...
Yall should start moving these vaults to France instead.
Domme belgen zijn jullie
Well I suppose waffles are more important than diamonds in Belgium
Frites are important in Belguim
I have done nothing but steal waffles for 3 days
none of both for me
I'm from Belgium
I don't like to be known for fat food lol
If he stole some waffles he probably would’ve got 20 years
@@theevildisgustingconfedera5563 I am also Belgian and I like to be know for unhealthy food lol
“It’s the most dangerous and daring heist ever!”
*laughs in gta online doomsday heist*
The most interesting part of the story was that the vault owner's didn't bother posting security guards because they trusted the technology to guard it.
Half Eaten Salami Sandwich: I am going to end this man's whole career.
😂😂😂
Mom always told me to finish my food. Now I get why haha
literally
*GTA ONLINE DIAMOND HEIST INTENSIFIED*
SkillShot Gaming facts lol
I got like 5.7m when the glitch was active
Karlito Rock lucky you
@@fartballsackpoopgamer4914 you still can get 3.6m by duplicating the gold.
Just bring a stun gun
1:54 this is the lockpicking lawyer and what I have for you today...
Who’s here after “Money Heist” ??
Deodat Lawson me😂
@@christwotimes Overrated show
minari you probably think shows like friends and the office are good lol
@@karnygrewal3549 I don't watch sleeper shows stfu
me
Once again, duct tape proves being the greatest solve ever, EVER!
joehoe222 it wasn’t flex tape though
Usama I CUT THIS VAULT IN HALF
Today's lesson:
*Never, ever* throw away half eaten salami sandwich when you have robbed $100 million worth of diamonds
@ADITYA That's boring though, mom.
thats too difficult to accomplish
Michael: T, looks like we got competition...
Who else was thinking that this was the diamond casino heist irl
Ya but everyone escapes clean because you don't have sandwiches in your inventory.
@@AB-mv1mb snacks.....
Ya but no sandwiches in there.
50 million security’s and 100 cameras
Vs
A bushi boi
A bushi boi won
Sandvich won
bush boi
Scazoid tf2
Imagine stealing millions of dollars without activating an alarm, but you're caught because someone threw a Salami sandwich you bit into abit... Lmao
Recently their has been a billion dollar heist
Want that dream to be a reality? hit me up and we crack that diamond baby! :D
@@lestercrest5877 probably
@@Etorate_ Bro if you say this, someone will actually think you will rob the bank. I dont recommend joking around with this.
@@Rarezites You're response is too late, I already succeeded with my master plan
He never gave up a single one of his other co-heisters. Man has my respect there!
they perfectly memorized the vault layout.
i can barely remember my hallway layout
well obviously the heist happen because *THEY DON'T USE DASHLANE*
Castsmith OR NORD VPN
Their security also didn't learn proper security from Skillshare.
tHAt WOunDT WOrK (r/wooosh)
DUH
Today's fact: A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Thanks
*insert sad violin music*
A fish can last longer underwater than a rat though.
Big whoop.
@millennial Smark Not if John shoots him first
It was actually little bit different on how they got caught, yes it was because of sandwich, but they found that sandwich inside garbage bag which they disposed in woods on they way back to Italy, the owner of that forest called cops because he was tired of people disposing their trash in forest and inside the bag they found papers related to the heist and also the sandwich
it was just Lester planning the heist
Plot Twist: the rented car was a Corolla.
lmao. 😂
That is the brand's name, the car's name is Toyota. Stupid normies!
@@disrespectthemwomensubjuga5471 Its a Corolla made by Toypta.
Lol
Oof
The Biggest Heist ever is RUclips Premium.
brhh this aint no minecrAFT
Ahahahaah
Amateur, me and my friends stole from the Diamond Casino dressed as Groupe Sechs
Amateur, I stole from the union depository with a helicopter and some construction equipment
That’s literally 2 mil, Trevor Michael and Franklin stole 200+ million
Ameteur, I got 2.1 b from stonks which isn't illegal
*When you have a person like Tokyo in your gang...*
Mate CF Barcelona earned double this by selling one Brazilian person.
That changed the transfer market in football. Now an average 1st team player in the premier league is worth 10s of millions
@@mayrln People couldn't care less about your comment so why bother commenting?
kaan what’s your problem bro lol, I only wrote like 20 words, not a whole essay
C W I don’t think Messi would want to move tbh
Visça El Barça!🤘
World's greatest heist,
Mark Zuckerberg chuckling sound in background background.
Ruined by a sandwich
A superbackground, if you will
How about a 250 billion dollar hiest?
There's a chance that a hiest that large could happen, bc this channel exposed stuff about it, lol.
robbers: GUYS WE DID IT!
Sandwich: *im about to ruin this mans whole career*
This is like when you do the Casino Heist with randoms that always gets detected on Silent & Sneaky
They wanted diamonds so they could make diamond Belgian waffles
I've already said this but you profile pick really makes me believe that their is no god
Fun fact in belgium no one really cares about waffles that much and rather praise their choclate
No that's not whu
Belgian here, literally no one cares about waffles
@@seppoleonvervloet132 Yeah. They're all about their Belgian tacos.
The key in the closet thing totally sounds like something a Belgian security adviser would do
They aren't stupid.. but that was funny 😂
It would have saved thousands of lives if Belgians would have done the job at Pearl Harbor, that fatefull December day in 1941. The person who had the keys to the ammo vaults couldn't be reached. Greetings from Antwerp, Belgium, sucker.
yeah, they actually had a master key maker make a perfect key for the heist and didnt end up needing it because they found the real one.
From thumbnail and title I thought it was a GTA 5 video 🤣
Thanks for the tutorial!
That's why you should eat your sandwich after you reached your final destination.
@Michael Klump wow
@Blossom데이지 yep, her name is Jeongyeon
Moral of the story Dont litter!
Easy just learn from GTA 5 so you can go back to Minecraft and steal all the diamonds
You Again!!!!! 😤😤😠😠😤😤😠😠
@@kingdomoffreshlandgov7315 dude, calm down.
Kingdom Of Freshland Gov yo chill
@@kingdomoffreshlandgov7315 yoo
Lol
Great video 🍿
"Claire de Lune" casually starts playing as you stare off into the Bellagio Fountains
Who else loves how his sponsors just perfectly fit in his video
Cuddos to this guy for keeping his mouth shut. 69 can't relate.
😂
People like you keeping that clowns name alive
@Chad Kensington he should get out and people not know who the fuck the clown is....that's why
Ya boi Juan LMFAOOOO reading this comment after 6ix9ine snitched on literally everyone
Ya boi Juan There’s a huge difference. This guy has millions waiting for him, he had money to lose by snitching. 6ix9ine literally had no other option, plus he’s snitching on fucking terrible people, who cares?
Your videos are addicting bro I see one of your videos on the sidebar and I click it
Franklin, Lester, Michael, and Trevor: “amateurs”
The people in the vid: “What?”
F, L, M, and T: “AMATEURS!!!”
I just want to say hats off to these guys for the almost perfect robbery. Also huge props to the guy for not turning in his fellow thieves. Because without a doubt he was offered a deal if he turned them in.
The way you explained getting 100 mil in the beginning makes me think why isn’t everyone criminals
It's apparently really hard work.
Because it requires people to work. No one wants to work now do they?
I wasn’t expecting an ad at the end. But very interesting
thanks for this walk through im making a plan now
Thanks *Real life lore* for providing us with another great video.
Great video man. Love the content you make. Keep up the good work.
Me and the boys attempting the silent and sneaky run on the diamond casino heist
Imagine the reactions of the inmates when they ask “what are you in for?” And he says “I robbed the most secure diamond vault and stole 100 million”
underrated
>you steal $20 mln of jewellery
>the diamond center claims additional $80 mln of losses that they can pocket on the sly
typical jewish thing
Toppu that's what i said - because they left the key by the door
Yeah, it's honestly very believable, but at the same time you would question why the crew would not go for the other $80 million considering it didn't seem like time was too against them, unless weight/volume was an issue which would require a little more knowledge on the goods lost. If 50lbs or 2 duffels of diamonds a person totals $20 million then it's believable that they may have only stole that much. If that $20 million would only be 10lbs a person or something, then his claim would be more questionable.
There were five people involved in the heist, and $20 million is one-fifth of $100 million. Given that, I think the $20 million that has been accounted for was Notarbartolo's share of the loot, and the remaining $80 million was split between his four henchmen before Notarbartolo was arrested.
No the biggest diamond heist is when I griefed my friends house and stole all his diamonds to make a full set of armour
Epic Gamer Moment
Noob I got a stack of diamonds in a single cave by fortune 3
@@Ibr_k47 Super Epic Gamer Moment
@@Ibr_k47 boi, I use silk touch in a cave, then use fortune 3 when I get back to my base. I get more room that way!
Smoothest transition into a sponsor of all time
This is literally the casino heist in real life
I am Belgian and seeing this, is actually cool.
You got any ideas ?😂
just remember don't panic and eat after you reach you destination good luck :D
On an unrelated note, I’m gonna go retrieve a salami sandwich I...um...misplaced.
“We did it!” Drops half eaten salami sandwich “meh we are fine” a few weeks later. “Why did I leave my half eaten salami sandwich?!?!”
Ooooh I live in Belgium I might take a look at that diamond bank
They should have thrown flex seal on that vault and it won't opem
How they will sell it? Most of the diamonds have certificates
@Qreno what does that mean ?
@Qreno bri its not that easy reality is totally different
@@awaisgondal7926 A fence?
@Qreno i think u mean B O A T
It’s been over ten years, this man is living the best life out in the world somewhere
Him: Literally says “robbing is bad” Also him: tells us how robbers got into one of the worlds most secured diomand vault
This is incredibly interesting. Funnily enough nowadays scamming people or stealing identities is a whole lot easier than an elaborate heist
"Alright everybody pays attention no one gets hurt!"
"Aagh! Open the door! Or they'll get worse than hurt!"
rockstar need to make a gta 6 heist inspired from this
they definitely invited the trio. Michael, Franklin and Trevor.
thanks for the tip
Moral of the story: don't throw away your half eaten sandwiches
DaReal_ Sarvoosh Oofed up
Angry as fuk
Dont litter
RealLifeLore Saturday upload?
Yes please.
This is inspiring!
I wonder why they didn’t just kill the boss, put on a henchmen disguise and use the keycard to get in
CodeName: ALP I got it and I smiled lol