These Expensive Jewelry Heists Will Make You Lose All Hope In Security Systems

2013 Brussels Airport – $50M

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This robbery might be the boldest one on the list depending on who you ask. Eight masked men with firearms dressed as the police cut a hole in the fence at the airport and drove right through. They pulled up to an airplane that was in the process of loading the jewels.

The plane was heading to Zurich, but they stopped it, and nonchalantly loaded 130 bags into their van. Ever since this happened, around 30 suspects have been rounded up with a small portion of the heist being returned.