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Nineteen People to Face Trial in $50M Brussels Diamond Heist

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8 years ago

January 5, 2016

INSTORE Staff

Some wielded the guns, others hid the goods.

The courts will be tasked with determining the fate of 19 people who are set to face trial over their involvement in a $50 million diamond heist at Brussels Airport nearly three years ago, according to AFP, which cites the Belga news agency. The report says that nine have been charged with being directly involved in the theft, and the rest have been charged with hiding the diamonds. A trial date has not yet been scheduled.

As AFP describes the incident: “The February 2013 robbery, one of the world’s biggest diamond thefts, saw a gang of armed men posing as police seize the gems from a passenger plane in an operation that lasted barely 10 minutes without a shot being fired.”

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