1987, an era where CCTV and DNA was so new. You could do stuff easily and get away with it. Now the real criminals control corporations and governments. Street crime is left for the primitive third world fools who will never learn. I miss the old days, people had character.
How do the “real criminals” control governments and corporations. I work for a corporation, calling the board criminals is nonsense. They run a company. Real criminals are nonces, drug dealers, people traffickers, gangsters. Not people who happen to have had successful careers that you feel envious of.
I lived in London when this happened and i never found out much about it, considering it was solved. Thanks for this mate, I was completely transfixed by it!
I have recently been watching your videos and I have to say I'm very impressed, and they seem to just get better all the time. The research, time and effort you apply to to your content is first class. Keep up the good work mate, thankyou.
I remember that job when I was a young un,it always amazed me and blew my mind. A Brit reporter went to interview Vicchei when he was in Italy,he turned up in Gucci loafers a plum red suede Ferragamo blazer with a white silk Versace shirt. A Rolex if I remember and other gold baubles in his fingers,he told the reporter there was nothing left from the Knightsbridge job and nor did he get anything out of it 😂😂
@@CuriosSpiritual that man and that job really seared into my memory,especially when the take is worth £60 mil+,and that’s when owners have admitted to what’s in the box’s. But what’s the take C when they didn’t admit to what was in those box’s hey.
More than likely to do with insurance side of it. Unfortunately people occasionally put illegal items in them safety boxes and haven’t any choice left but cry😢
@@roybatty2030 I didn't know that but with so many people unwilling to even admit they had a box, I assumed the actual robbery was a smokescreen to divert attention from the intended target... risky AF to rob those kinds of people.
Twas in fact a tad more real n physical, pursuit on foot was involved. The figures are speculative, the time he did was real too. Just remember that whatever bs you’ve been sold, he did in fact put the fear of sudden death into the hearts of innocent people during his erm career, which lets be honest, is not what you’d chose as life experience for you and yours if you have any by now
His quote to police of 'it's only a game, and you've won' really sums up his mindset. So much at stake yet had such a nonchalant attitude to losing it all along with his liberty. Not trying to glamorise him, but it takes a very special kind of person to think that way.
Didn't get to watch this straight away, unfortunately. But, I finally managed to make some time to grab a coffee and watch it. Outstanding video, again. 👏 👏 👏 👏 I still can't understand how you are not on 100k subs by now. One of the best channels of this genre on RUclips.
Just a couple of weeks ago RUclips recommended me some old Crimewatch type thing about this blagging and the Italian guy and how they caught him, he was an audacious bastard that’s for sure. Great rework of this video mate you’ve done it proud
Valerio was a friend of mine ,and I got arrested ten days after the robbery ,the police knew that I had nothing to do with it ,they released me after 30 hours with no charges ,a few years later Valerio had a shoot out with a policeman ,another friend of mine south of my city in Italy ,Valerio died and the policeman remained 6 months in coma because he was wounded
I remember that case and it was a very high profile. There was alot in the tabloid newspapers. Great video, loved it 🎉 The school of turin is worth researching. The world's biggest diamond heist in Antwerp.
8:23 interesting and probably a decent strategy that they only went for the big boxes. But imagine what they must’ve left behind if they could’ve got the little ones open in time too
Hi yours channel is so interesting and informative as well thanks for all the hard work and time you put in making these amazing videos content one of the best channels out there great content thank you
They really hit the right nerves.... Total gem stone story from the vault of the past... Highly feeling these non drug related stories of yours.... Keep them coming fella 💥🥂👑
I remember reading about him in the papers back in the 80's. Rumour has it that when he went to put the deposit down on the Testarossa (cash of course) he pulled out his wallet and a huge diamond fell out of his pocket and rolled across the floor of the showroom !!!
Another amazing vid curios, and I have to agree that testa Rossa looks amazing in black, I’ve not heard of this case, but boy you must have researched this one. As you say, but for coming back for the Ferrari to London he would have been home and dry. That car alone would of been an instant head turner, and would be hot property attracting a lot of attention. Thanks for your upload as always great research.
I remember this very well .😁 I was in London 1986 /87 And was amazed at the time. Sheer balls n determination. The guy was a legend! Real shame how it ended once he made it home to Italy. RIP 😮....
17:36 Sadly the very same phenomenon happens in America where their Federal Justice System which rewards often multiple murderers with nominal sentences watch in horror as they proceed to continue their reign of terror in often far worse manners than previously! This is is an excellent upload and illustrates your grasp of criminality in far more than a sensational style and kudos to you once again. 🙏📚☘️
Huge ego. A fantasist and also a serious grade A robber with balls. Unfortunately, because he saw his life as himself as the lead in an action movie, he was never going to stop robbing until he was caught no matter how much money he accumulated.
Good content mate, I have heard about this robbery but different content, the vault was on a timer or something & other staff entered for work so occasionally they had to be tied up etc, I think it's the same robbery but not 100%, either way another great video of the old school robbers mate👌🏻
Can't remember if they recovered the Flick diamond. £4 million then. God knows what now. Could of ended up in pea sized bits. Great going down memory lane with the best uk crime channel. Bless
I remember seeing Viccei’s testerossa going through BCA auctions many years ago being sold by the metropolitan police as proceeds of crime. It still had the smashed windscreen from the coppers truncheon.
His biggest mistake was claiming to know the truth relating to the removal of Calvi. That absolutely brought him to the attention of Propaganda Due (P2) in the worst way possible. There is no doubt he was removed by members of P2 for merely suggesting he knew anything relating to Calvi. If this is the first time anyone has heard of P2, spend time researching what it is and who are its members - you will not be disappointed. P2 is the most powerful criminal organisation in Italy without any doubt.
Blackfriars Bridge if I remember right. Vatican Bank of Ambrosia laundering money through the Vatican for some extremely dangerous people. Similar to the bank of BCCI, scandal. Some time later their was another banking scandal the Australian Nugen Hand Bank
Thanks for posting this story. I watched a documentary on this at least 20 years ago. From memory there was no mention of his death in documentary so I assume it was before then. Funny you say all but forgotten as it’s a story I always remembered and have tried to find that original program several times but I didn’t know his name so it was all but impossible. I just remembered him as the man who only got caught because of his Ferrari. I mean I like Ferraris but ffs think I’d let it go in that situation
1987, an era where CCTV and DNA was so new. You could do stuff easily and get away with it. Now the real criminals control corporations and governments. Street crime is left for the primitive third world fools who will never learn. I miss the old days, people had character.
How do the “real criminals” control governments and corporations.
I work for a corporation, calling the board criminals is nonsense. They run a company.
Real criminals are nonces, drug dealers, people traffickers, gangsters. Not people who happen to have had successful careers that you feel envious of.
That's an interesting number 228
I wonder if there's any connection to a more recent attempted bank robbery Theres always a story within a story
Bet you have never robbed an apple! 😫
@@SawdustSkull You're right, never committed a single crime in my life and I am a law abiding citizen.
it was always like that. the criminals and evil people have always controlled everything. you were just unaware of it.
How this guy hasn't had a movie made about him YET is astonishing.
He robbed high ranking elite they’d never sanction it, hence they bumped him off
@@Grudeman408 Dominic Cooper from Devils double!
There has been a movie made of it
@@lawtonloraine4144 name of it?
There is a book I read it
I lived in London when this happened and i never found out much about it, considering it was solved. Thanks for this mate, I was completely transfixed by it!
thank you my friend
Okey.y.donde.depocitamos..banismo.panama.okey
I have recently been watching your videos and I have to say I'm very impressed, and they seem to just get better all the time. The research, time and effort you apply to to your content is first class. Keep up the good work mate, thankyou.
thank you for such a great comment
I remember that job when I was a young un,it always amazed me and blew my mind. A Brit reporter went to interview Vicchei when he was in Italy,he turned up in Gucci loafers a plum red suede Ferragamo blazer with a white silk Versace shirt. A Rolex if I remember and other gold baubles in his fingers,he told the reporter there was nothing left from the Knightsbridge job and nor did he get anything out of it 😂😂
I found the article to what you described, bang on description
@@CuriosSpiritual that man and that job really seared into my memory,especially when the take is worth £60 mil+,and that’s when owners have admitted to what’s in the box’s. But what’s the take C when they didn’t admit to what was in those box’s hey.
Fascinating episode. One of the best
Okey.papito.bellommma..
I’ve read his book Too Fast to Live, it’s 10/10 and highly recommend you read it. If anyone’s life should be made into a film it’s Valerio Viccei
Cheers I'll get a copy
Any key takeaways?
10:22 what in the monobrow is that 😂… great video again thank you, was refreshing to go back so long in time
I've been waiting for a video about this epic robbery for years, thank you!!! 🙏
When the people that own the boxes don't even come forward as having a vault.. you know he found something he really really shouldn't have had.
More than likely to do with insurance side of it. Unfortunately people occasionally put illegal items in them safety boxes and haven’t any choice left but cry😢
I understood that the main purpose of the Knightsbridge job was to obtain secret documents from the vaults, not money etc.
@@roybatty2030 I didn't know that but with so many people unwilling to even admit they had a box, I assumed the actual robbery was a smokescreen to divert attention from the intended target... risky AF to rob those kinds of people.
@@roybatty2030 Pinkus & Viccei went to Tel Aviv with the spoils. This will lead you to interesting wider reading
@ Interesting. And the job was arranged by a well-known business intelligence firm, whose name I’ve obviously forgotten.
I read his book years ago... brilliant read... proper lone wolf
Same...I think it was the Coutts bank he robbed and he made his getaway on a motorbike....riding through London with no helmet😂😂
@@anxiousbrusselsprout😳
@@anxiousbrusselsproutwhat, with 228 million quids worth of plunder in a rucksack?
@@whitemountainapache3297 was the safety deposit box raid the Coutts bank then?????
Twas in fact a tad more real n physical, pursuit on foot was involved. The figures are speculative, the time he did was real too. Just remember that whatever bs you’ve been sold, he did in fact put the fear of sudden death into the hearts of innocent people during his erm career, which lets be honest, is not what you’d chose as life experience for you and yours if you have any by now
There aren’t many RUclipsrs that I look forwards to new videos from but you are an exception and right up there at the top 👌🏻
Dude, you have a full time job and still pump out this quality content. Respect 👍
You had to graft to get this fantastic episode, 😅. Hats off to you, thoroughly enjoyed it 🎉
Agreed, the content, pictures, narration all spot on. A good story of times gone by. I was 7 when this happened so it’s good to know.
Thanks 👍🏽
thank you my friend
His quote to police of 'it's only a game, and you've won' really sums up his mindset. So much at stake yet had such a nonchalant attitude to losing it all along with his liberty. Not trying to glamorise him, but it takes a very special kind of person to think that way.
@@Nickster_P I'd like to think it was a slight miss quote / poor translation. From its just a game we play and you've won.....
Or someone who thought knew he had protectors high up in the Italian Establishment.
that that person is a total fool!
Didn't get to watch this straight away, unfortunately.
But, I finally managed to make some time to grab a coffee and watch it. Outstanding video, again. 👏 👏 👏 👏
I still can't understand how you are not on 100k subs by now. One of the best channels of this genre on RUclips.
Another brilliant video! You can see how much effort goes into these. You're one of my favourite channels on RUclips
Brilliantly researched mate. Top class video. 👍🏻
Understatement...!!!
Top class indeed....
Much appreciated thank you
He didn't like working in gloves?!!
He deserves to be caught for that😂
it seems he was not a very intelligent person. alot of careless action and vain stupidity.
Brilliant video. Incredible detail as always. Pete🏴
I remember this robbery like yesterday but i always wondered what happened to him cheers great vid would make a great film
sure would
@@enoshimametals me too!
Rewatch from 17.35 and find out.
Just a couple of weeks ago RUclips recommended me some old Crimewatch type thing about this blagging and the Italian guy and how they caught him, he was an audacious bastard that’s for sure.
Great rework of this video mate you’ve done it proud
Same I’ve heard this before a few weeks ago but not as detailed
Absolute proud.... Big up mate!!!!
@@Big_AL_Nowitzki exactly yes mate. This has been much more deeply researched, and is in much greater detail
Great research keep up love watching these true stories straight to point .
thank you
Thank you for your excellent informative and entertaining vids
thank you for watching
Valerio was a friend of mine ,and I got arrested ten days after the robbery ,the police knew that I had nothing to do with it ,they released me after 30 hours with no charges ,a few years later Valerio had a shoot out with a policeman ,another friend of mine south of my city in Italy ,Valerio died and the policeman remained 6 months in coma because he was wounded
Another top episode from the top producer . Keep up the good work
I love all ur videos u are by far the best on utube
thank you my friend
One of your best videos yet 👌
Wow, thanks, though its one of the lowest viewed
20k views since 5pm yesterday and u deserve everyone. Ill sub later today. The best channel on YT crine.
Why later today when it’s just a click?
@@mintyfresh569was thinking the same lol 😂
Read the book years ago,it's quality 👌 The Wolf 🙏 RIP
I remember that case and it was a very high profile. There was alot in the tabloid newspapers.
Great video, loved it 🎉
The school of turin is worth researching. The world's biggest diamond heist in Antwerp.
Bites the sandwich 🥪
2.5k views in the first hour. Glad to see channel getting good attention. Cheers
thanks, videos are on a bit of a slide at the moment, but its those stories I want to tell
Definitely deserve a like for this one! Great job!
Thank you! Cheers!
Excellent 👍 great story I've never heard of
thank you
Just what I’ve been waiting for and it’s Always a pleasure boss thankyou again
nice one thanks
8:23 interesting and probably a decent strategy that they only went for the big boxes. But imagine what they must’ve left behind if they could’ve got the little ones open in time too
Another top video been here since 12k subs glad to see how much your channel has grown keep up the good work 💪🏻
thank you so much
Hi yours channel is so interesting and informative as well thanks for all the hard work and time you put in making these amazing videos content one of the best channels out there great content thank you
So nice of you, thank you my friend
Another quality episode mate 👍🏻
Thank you 👍
Really well done video lad, top work as always
thank you
They really hit the right nerves....
Total gem stone story from the vault of the past...
Highly feeling these non drug related stories of yours....
Keep them coming
fella 💥🥂👑
thank you my friend
Nice one pal enjoyed that one.thanks😊
Read this book when i was banged up, what an amazing book and what am amazing Channel 👌
Great Documentary Well Put Together & Great Voice For Doing It, Keep Up The Good Work Mate Well Done To You, Incredible 🙂🙂🙂
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you
The book is amazing and I don’t read books but a real page turner 👍🏻
Also the first person rob Coutts Bank,the queen's bank 😲👌
They robbed us,the public in 2008 with a bailout...couldn't let the RF become destitute ,could we?
Superb as always!
Thank you so much 😀
I read his book in prison years ago, I never knew what had become of him thou...RIP
I remember this robbery well especially that black Ferrari Testarosa another interesting 🤨 video keep them coming mate
Fascinating case. I remember it well from the time. The denouement is especially interesting.
I remember reading about him in the papers back in the 80's. Rumour has it that when he went to put the deposit down on the Testarossa (cash of course) he pulled out his wallet and a huge diamond fell out of his pocket and rolled across the floor of the showroom !!!
Wow, what a geezer!! Great video mate 👌🏻
The Ferrari is believed to now reside in Thailand. One of a very small number of black early RHD single mirror Testarossas made.
Always great content and appreciate it 👏
Vicci was a right little rascal! nice video!
Absolutely a brilliant commentary on the wolf 🌺👍
Thank you kindly
He likes to keep a low profile
Red ferrari 🙈
He’s certainly got a lower profile now, 6 foot lower 😂
Wow i wasnt even born, brilliantly done again Mate ❤
Also love stuff to do with the mafia👍
thank you so much
@@CuriosSpiritual your welcome, also I never heard of it before, brilliant
Love this content 👏
i had seen this before but good to refresh us
Guy is an underworld legend!
Brilliant book to read guys 👌
Awesome video thanks for sharing 👍
thank you my friend
Beautifully written, hats off to you Curious and Spiritual.
Written?
@@richjames7948 oops is my grammar incorrect, sorry, you catch my drift though.
@@richjames7948 limeted ?
@@richjames7948 at least I can spell .
I write the scripts with my research, the thing that takes the longest
Great work putting this together, it's amazing
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you
Another amazing vid curios, and I have to agree that testa Rossa looks amazing in black, I’ve not heard of this case, but boy you must have researched this one.
As you say, but for coming back for the Ferrari to London he would have been home and dry.
That car alone would of been an instant head turner, and would be hot property attracting a lot of attention.
Thanks for your upload as always great research.
I remember this very well .😁
I was in London 1986 /87
And was amazed at the time.
Sheer balls n determination.
The guy was a legend!
Real shame how it ended once he made it home to Italy.
RIP 😮....
17:36 Sadly the very same phenomenon happens in America where their Federal Justice System which rewards often multiple murderers with nominal sentences watch in horror as they proceed to continue their reign of terror in often far worse manners than previously! This is is an excellent upload and illustrates your grasp of criminality in far more than a sensational style and kudos to you once again. 🙏📚☘️
Amezing video!
Remember reading the book when I was a teen. Great story.
Great video, interesting story! For me a Ferrari has to be red
Read his book/autobiography early 90s, legend. Off his head.. but proper legend. A film about this guy would be a blockbuster. Rip valerio vicci 🙏
Just goes to prove...never trust anyone with a mono-brow...
Huge ego. A fantasist and also a serious grade A robber with balls. Unfortunately, because he saw his life as himself as the lead in an action movie, he was never going to stop robbing until he was caught no matter how much money he accumulated.
Outstanding as per guv
That ferrari hasnt been taxed since 1990
Man your talent is amazing keep up the good work mate 😊
awesome thank you buddy
Good content mate, I have heard about this robbery but different content, the vault was on a timer or something & other staff entered for work so occasionally they had to be tied up etc, I think it's the same robbery but not 100%, either way another great video of the old school robbers mate👌🏻
1986 Ferrari untaxed since 1 December 1990 No Mot history. 4 years old so I guess it was exported or crashed somewhere.
Brilliant !!!!
They risked it for a biscuit. Keep the good work from newport south wales 👍
Amazing story! Even though I was in my mid-20s at the time he did this, I’d never heard of this.
Can't remember if they recovered the Flick diamond. £4 million then. God knows what now. Could of ended up in pea sized bits. Great going down memory lane with the best uk crime channel. Bless
Brilliant watch
nice one thanks
Great stuff mate 👍👍👍
I read his book while sitting in Durham years ago...great book
And me but I was in hmp Walton 😂😂
What’s the book called?
I remember seeing Viccei’s testerossa going through BCA auctions many years ago being sold by the metropolitan police as proceeds of crime. It still had the smashed windscreen from the coppers truncheon.
What a car!
Was in Parkhurst with him! Decent fella
His biggest mistake was claiming to know the truth relating to the removal of Calvi. That absolutely brought him to the attention of Propaganda Due (P2) in the worst way possible. There is no doubt he was removed by members of P2 for merely suggesting he knew anything relating to Calvi.
If this is the first time anyone has heard of P2, spend time researching what it is and who are its members - you will not be disappointed. P2 is the most powerful criminal organisation in Italy without any doubt.
A Freemason lodge who have washed money for everyone and even handled the Vaticans banking…hhhmmm🤔
Blackfriars Bridge if I remember right. Vatican Bank of Ambrosia laundering money through the Vatican for some extremely dangerous people.
Similar to the bank of BCCI, scandal. Some time later their was another banking scandal the Australian Nugen Hand Bank
I want to compliment Viccei for undertaking such a serious job, but he took his gloves off ffs.
What did he think was going to happen❓
he was wanted for heavy by interpol anyway so was on his toes anyway so probly thought it dont really matter ,think about it ?
@@jagvolvo33 Well it did matter.
@@RaphaelDawkinsCombatRadio why did it matter ??
❤👍🏻 good episode info.
Guy richy needscto make a movie on this if not already.
Good taste mate, the Ennio Morricone soundtrack for _The Mission_ is also exceptional.
I love this story... even started on a film project on this subject... London has changed too much to make a movie of this story...
Thanks for posting this story. I watched a documentary on this at least 20 years ago. From memory there was no mention of his death in documentary so I assume it was before then. Funny you say all but forgotten as it’s a story I always remembered and have tried to find that original program several times but I didn’t know his name so it was all but impossible. I just remembered him as the man who only got caught because of his Ferrari. I mean I like Ferraris but ffs think I’d let it go in that situation
A very well known case, also pretty certain the late Michael Winner made a film about it all.
Thanks again fella.
he made a tv episode with some other crimes
Love big heist’s . Lightening lee Murray holds the title that securitas robbery was unreal
Covered that also but there’s a massive twist for the one that got away. Done 2 videos on it
The Testarossa also looks good in white!
P.s. i recommended this story over a year ago to you... well done mate 👏
If you don't find much information on a public matter like this one, some cover-up has been done.
Thank you for your hard work👍👌
Much appreciated thank you