'The Diamond Heist': The robbery you (almost) never heard of
A gang, a diamond, and a plan so bold it shook the UK. 'The Diamond Heist' on Netflix reveals the wild true story of a robbery that nearly became the greatest of all time.
What’s the craziest heist you’ve ever heard of...
The $4.5 billion (about R83.25 billion) Bitcoin heist?
The Hatton Garden vault job?
Or maybe the Antwerp Diamond Heist that fooled an entire security system?
Forget those. This one might just top them all.
It’s a heist so bold, so outrageous, and so cinematic, it now has its own Netflix docuseries.
Trust us, you’ll want to watch every second of it.
Set in the year 2000, this real-life thriller follows a gang of South-East London criminals who dared to pull off the impossible.
They attempted to steal the De Beers Millennium Star, one of the most valuable diamonds on Earth, from a fortress-like vault inside London’s Millennium Dome.
We’re talking about a vault with three-foot-thick walls, reinforced with metal bars strong enough to stop an armoured truck at full speed.
Motion detectors so sensitive they could pick up a fly buzzing, and display cases made from polycarbonate, which is 250 times tougher than glass.
In short, it’s a place no one was meant to get into, and even fewer were meant to get out of.
'The Diamond Heist' lays out the mind-blowing true story of this £350 million (about R8.7 billion) robbery attempt, which was just seconds away from success, until one of the most sophisticated police operations in UK history shut it down.
With executive producer Guy Ritchie at the helm, the three-part Netflix series feels more like a blockbuster than a documentary.
It’s packed with real surveillance footage, thrilling interviews, and high-stakes re-enactments that put you right in the middle of the action.
The show flips between the criminal masterminds plotting their escape by speedboat and the elite police squad silently watching their every move.
“They had everything planned,” said detective inspector Jon Shatford, the man who led the sting. “But so did we.”
If you’re a fan of slick crime thrillers, wild true stories, or just love a good “they almost got away with it” tale, 'The Diamond Heist' is for you.
This story is proof that truth really is stranger and way more thrilling than fiction.
Don’t waste any more time. 'The Diamond Heist' is now streaming on Netflix.
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