In some movies, there are plots about theft, these evil thieves, described super powerfully, even if it is a very safe protective place, for thieves, you can easily enter, so as to carry out theft, which makes the audience shout in amazement after watching, of course, you may say that these plots are just artistic needs, exaggerated only, but in history, there are some theft incidents, but more incredible than these movie plots, if you don't believe, today Xiaobian will talk about, True to history, 6 thefts that are even more incredible than the movie plot!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" >1 stole $28 million in jewelry from chocolate</h1>
Chocolate is a joke that many people love to eat, but if someone uses chocolate as an item to "bribe" others, I am afraid that it will be a joke, but in Antwerp, Belgium, someone actually stole $28 million worth of jewelry with chocolate, which is really incredible.
It is understood that in 2007, a man in his 50s, named "Carlos Hector Flamenbaum", claimed to be a diamond businessman who often went to the Dutch Bank in Antwerp to handle business, he was very friendly to the staff, always bought them gifts and chocolates, as a "regular customer" of the bank, the man became one of the trusted diamond dealers and got the opportunity to enter the vault.
However, no one thought that such a successful person, actually a thief, between March 2 and 5 he stole 120,000 diamonds, a total value of 28 million US dollars, after the police, the police found that the man's Argentine passport was fake, although the bank's diamond center has a security system worth 2 million US dollars, but did not stop this cunning thief, even if the police issued an international wanted, but there is still no clue, the thief seems to have evaporated in the world!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" >2, digging a hole in the ground for three months to open up the bank vault</h1>
On August 6, 2005, the branch of the central bank in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, was stolen and $65 million in cash was lost.
Later, according to neighbours near the bank, three months ago, a group of people, renting a house opposite the bank, claimed to work in a company that made artificial turf, transporting a large amount of materials every day, and the police concluded that these people were the criminals who stole the bank, they spent three months digging an underground tunnel and no one found it, this case is the largest bank theft in Brazilian history, although after tracing and arresting 13 suspects, as well as a small amount of stolen money has been recovered, But most of the stolen money was still not recovered!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" >3, impersonating a police officer to steal $500 million worth of art</h1>
At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, USA, on the morning of March 18, 1990, 13 exquisite works of art by famous artists were stolen, and it is worth noting that the "strategy" of these two thieves is simple, they pretend to be policemen, easily after entering the museum, first tie up the guards, and then steal all 13 works of art, including the precious works of artists such as Rembrandt, Manet and Vermeer.
After that, the museum offered a $10 million bounty, the largest bounty ever offered by a private institution, and the theft was also a disgrace to the museum, and many people said that it was too bad to let the thieves succeed in stealing in such a funny way!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" >4, stole the church</h1>
Churches are important places for religious activities, and you can see all kinds of churches in cities large and small, but can you imagine? It is not the plot of the movie that someone will steal the church, but a rare event in reality, in a remote area near the russian village of Komarovo, there is a church, it is understood that this church was built in 1809.
But in 2009, a group of thieves stole the entire church in just three months. No reason is known, though, some experts say the thieves may have made a fortune by selling religious icons and classified church structures, and because of the bad behavior, the police have opened an investigation!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" >5, the bridge was stolen</h1>
An unbelievable event that a 56-ton, 23-meter-long bridge was artificially stolen was in the Russian Arctic city of Murmansk, which occurred in 2019, the abandoned bridge is located about 170 kilometers south of the regional capital Murmansk, according to local media reports, the bridge has long been abandoned, and the railway tracks have been demolished.
But unexpectedly, such an abandoned bridge, actually by the thieves "targeted", and in a short period of time, the 56 tons of major bridges were stolen, such an incident, in the past only appeared in the movie, of course, some netizens said that risk stealing such abandoned metal products, these thieves are not very "smart", because once these metal products are sold in the market, it will be easy to be found by the police.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" >6, Angolan Boeing 727 aircraft missing</h1>
Generally speaking, if you want to steal a business airliner, this is too difficult, except in some film and television works, it is almost impossible to complete in reality, but from a historical point of view, someone really succeeded in stealing an airplane, which happened on May 25, 2003, at luanda airport in Angola, when two men boarded a sound 727 aircraft.
One is the American pilot and flight engineer Ben C. Padilla, another man named John Pedilla. M. Mutantu, an employed mechanic in the Republic of the Congo, neither of them was certified to fly a Boeing 727, when they began to fly the plane and began taxiing on the runway without communicating with the control tower, and the tower personnel tried to contact but did not respond.
The plane took off without lights, flew southwest over the Atlantic Ocean, and then mysteriously disappeared, the plane was filled with 53,000 liters of fuel, the range was about 2400 kilometers, since then, the plane and these two people have not been seen, no fragments of the aircraft have been found on land or at sea, this theft of aircraft has also become the most mysterious event in history, and it is still an unsolved mystery!