History tells us that we tend to idealize the extraordinary criminal personalities. Even those robbers who do not share their prey on the rich and the poor, are still his fans admire their audacity. With the development of security technologies bandits also became more cunning and sophisticated - this is the flip side of innovation that supports the kind of balance.
We present to you some of the most daring and ingenious robberies in history
1. The raid on the Millennium Dome
2000. In London, finally completed the construction of buildings, known as the Millennium Dome, and it took a lot of money desperately. Among the numerous exhibitions held in this building, and the exposure was diamonds. The main exhibit - "Star of the Millennium" - flawless diamond weighing 203 carats and cost $ 250 million. The robbers were planning to break with guns blazing, grab the diamonds and go up in smoke on the boat waiting for them. But the plan failed because the London police are watching them in connection with several attacks on cars collectors and criminals have been arrested on the spot.
2. Robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
1990. All Boston celebrated St. Patrick's Day, residents were drinking beer and discussing the Yankees. At that time two robbers disguised as police officers entered the museum and stole 13 works of art, among them paintings by Rembrandt, Manet and Degas several works. Total damage was estimated at $ 500 million. Now, in the hall hang empty frames, in deference to the stolen paintings and in the hope that one day they will return to the scene. This is one of the most notorious unsolved crimes to date.
3. Robbing a bank with a bomb around his neck
For those who watched the movie "in time for 30 minutes," the story may sound familiar, though the reality was far more tragic. In 2003, the pizza guy came into the bank and handed the cashier a note asking to give him the money, and then raised his shirt to show an explosive device attached to his neck and chest. In less than 15 minutes, state police arrested him. He shouted that he was forcibly made to commit robbery, and that the bomb is about to explode. Police cordoned off the area in anticipation of engineers, but the team has not yet had time to arrive at the scene, the bomb exploded and started beeping.
4. 6000000000 aid from the United States was stolen in Iraq
In the chaos of post-Saddamskogo Iraq - with the agents of personal security, the former Iraqi military and U.S. forces fighting for control of the region - someone has gone to 6 billion dollars that Congress appropriated the country. Special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction Stuart Bowen acknowledged that were missing money and called it "the largest theft of funds in national history." An incredible amount, the total lack of any results of the investigation, and the fact that everyone seemed to have forgotten about it, makes it a crime the biggest and strangest of all robberies.
5. Theft from a French bank vault
In 2010, a gang of robbers, using some sophisticated tools, dig now in the tunnel and made her way into the vault of a Parisian bank, where members of the gang cleaned out about a hundred deposit boxes. The exact amount stolen is unknown, because wealthy clients manage their own cells. A very similar crime took place a month earlier in a bank in the northern part of the city, where he was robbed about a hundred cells. Under Suspicion is the same mysterious gang.
6. The Great Train Robbery
In 1963, 2.3 million pounds (40 million pounds to date) have been stolen from the mail train in England. A gang of 15 people managed to obstryapat the case even without weapons. Money drove to burn, and criminals could easily disappear with them, if in the barn, where he was hiding, not sat down to play "Monopoly" the stolen cash. Everywhere in the barn were their fingerprints. This is true.
7. DB Cooper
A favorite of conspiracy theorists, DB Cooper made only in the history of the United States undisclosed hijacking. In 1971, an unidentified man, who later was given the nickname DB Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727, has received a ransom of $ 200 thousand and jumped out of a plane with the money somewhere between Portland and Seattle. Despite years of searching and still ongoing FBI investigation, neither the body nor the money has not been found. The fate of this man is unknown, but his case remains open for more than 40 years, and during that time had already attained 60 volumes of assumptions and versions.
8. Robbery with helicopter
In 2009, accustomed to the order of the Swedish police faced a highly daring band of criminals. It was the first crime in the country, committed with the help of a helicopter. A gang of robbers in a hijacked helicopter landed on the roof of the bank building. They smashed the glass with sledgehammers, blew security doors, proceeded to the storage room of currency, and tried to disappear with bags of stolen money. All police cars arrived on the scene, were punctured tire, as the perpetrators in advance scattered on the road spike balls. No one caught the robbers did not get more than 7 years in prison. So, if you have the desire to practice their criminal skills in a particular country, Sweden - the most suitable.
9. Thomas Blood and the Crown of the British Empire
1671. Thomas Blood was an Irish assassin, who decided to try his hand in the robbery. His "modest" to become the crown jewel of the British Empire, which had been stored in the Tower of London and protected by a huge number of guards. Blood plan included dressing up, fake title, fake wife (played by a prostitute) and the false nephew who supposedly was going to marry the daughter of Edward Talbot - Keeper of the Crown. Looking around, stunned bandits Talbot hammer smash the glass, behind which lay jewels and elbowed prey pockets, tried to escape. However, far away they failed. They say that some of the guards dragged them from their horses. Bloody lucky, King Charles II so amused by this attempt that he forgave Thomas and allowed him to go to Ireland.
10. A diamond heist in Antwerp
This is a robbery in 2003 dubbed the "robbery of the century". A huge amount of gold, diamonds and other jewelry was stolen from the Antwerp Diamond Center. The cost of the stolen was estimated at $ 100 million, but as it turned out, all of this is somewhat glossed over. Leonardo Notarbartolo who served before 3 years in prison, organized robbery. As part of his cunning plan, Leonardo has established itself as an Italian diamond dealer and has earned the trust of the center. 123 of 160 steel cells with the unique combination locks were broken. Leonardo was arrested, the others managed to escape. A few years later, he gave an interview to the magazine «Wired», in which he argued that it was invented by a dealer who hired him. Apparently, the real damage was around $ 20 million - the lion's share of it had to reimburse the insurance company