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Hatton Garden Raid: Police Release Dramatic Images From £60m Gem Heist

 

 

 

The pictures show how the gang neatly tunnelled into the vault through concrete walls to ransack 72 security boxes over the Easter weekend

 

 

 

 

 

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Police have released dramatic new images of inside the audacious Hatton Garden jewellery raid.

The pictures show how the gang neatly tunnelled into the vault through concrete walls to ransack 72 security boxes over the Easter weekend.

When the raid was finally discovered, officers found the vaults covered in dust and debris and the floor strewn with discarded boxes and numerous power tools, including an angle grinder, concrete drills and crowbars.

 

 

 

 

 

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Police have also released a graphic illustrating how they believe the gang entered the building, and got into the vault between between Thursday, 2 April, at about 9.20pm and Friday, 3 April, at about 8.05am, and Saturday, 4 April, at approximately 10.17pm  and Sunday, 5 April,at about 6.30pm.

There was no sign of forced entry to the building, in which a number of businesses are based and which share a communal entrance. The thieves disabled the communal lift on the second floor and then used the lift shaft to climb down into the basement where the safety deposit business was based.

 

 

 

 

 

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Superb.

And also those who have shir in there mostly wasn't insured, some probably probably cause they wanted to hide assets from the tax man, so can't even complain about what they lost. Struck gold

Exactly.

People are going to have to take the L and keep it moving.

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Some programme on BBC2 @ 10 on it

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So mad, so they took 72 boxes out of 1000

Sickest inside job

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Detectives have arrested seven people in connection with the audacious heist of a safety deposit box vault in London’s Hatton Garden jewellery district.

The arrests came after 200 officers raided 12 addresses across London and Kent on Tuesday. 

Police said the seven men arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to burgle were aged between 48 and 75 and that they had recovered a large amount of “high value” property from properties raided. 

 

They said they were “confident” some of the property recovered in the raids which took place at around 10.30am came from Hatton Garden.

 

The heist happened over the Easter weekend with the gang drilling through a thick concrete wall. Then they rifled through 72 secure boxes believed to contain millions of pounds’ worth of cash, jewels and other valuables.

The gang left behind various tools, including drills, as well as crowbars and angle-grinders used to force the boxes open. Officers have been trying to find out why only 72 of 999 boxes were opened.

 

Tuesday morning’s raids were staged by Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad with four people arrested in Enfield, north London, one in east London and another in Dartford, Kent. In a statement police said: “A number of large bags containing significant amounts of high value property have been recovered from one address. Officers are confident these are items stolen during the burglary.

 

“All seven men have been taken to a London police station. Searches at the addresses are ongoing.

“Over the last six weeks Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad has worked relentlessly, supported by officers from covert policing and major crime commands, to track down those responsible, and recover what was taken.

“An intense investigation has been undertaken to ensure the victims, the individual box owners, the small businesses and the wider Hatton Garden community can get justice.”

 

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