More on Belgian diamond heist

The New York Times has a follow up article on the Belgian airport diamond robbery.  It seems it may not have been as well planned as originally thought.

Jewel Robbery at Cannes

The Atlantic Wire reports on a robbery in France during the Cannes Film Festival.  Someone left $1 million worth of jewellery in a hotel room safe and when they came home early in the morning the safe had been ripped off the wall and the contents stolen.

1990 Art Thieves IDed by FBI

According to ABC the FBI has identified, though not publicly, the people involved in a massive 1990 art theft in Boston. 

On the night of March 18, 1990, two thieves posed as Boston police officers. Once inside the museum, they tied up the guards and left with 13 masterpieces, including works by Degas and Rembrandt, valued at a total of $500 million.

The statute of limitations has since run out on the theft and officials have said naming the suspects would be "imprudent," given the continuing effort to recover the art work. DesLauriers said the announcement today, on the 23rd anniversary of the heist, was intended to increase public awareness, possibly leading to the artwork being found.

Brussels Airport Diamonds Heist

The Guardian has a report on a very smoothly executed robbery at the Brussels airport where thieves dressed as police stole $50 million worth of diamonds.

The men flashed machine guns but no shots were fired as they took 120 parcels from the plane's hold, stacking them in their vehicles. They fled at high speed through the hole in the security fence. The van believed to have been used in the raid was later found burnt out just outside Brussels.

Ine Van Wymersch, spokeswoman for the Brussels prosecutor, said: "They were well prepared. There were passengers on the plane but they saw nothing of what was going on."

$400K snatched from car

Reuters is reporting on $400,000 of diamonds that were snatched from a car in Florida.  The question is, what this planning or did some opportunist get a huge surprise?

Tower of London Keys Stolen

I'm not sure what this is about but according to Sky News, someone stole the keys to the Tower of London from a sentry box.

Major Dutch Art Heist

The Associated Press has the story of a major art theft in the Netherlands.  Stolen were:

Pablo Picasso's 1971 "Harlequin's Head"; Claude Monet's 1901 "Waterloo Bridge, London" and "Charing Cross Bridge, London"; Henri Matisse's 1919 "Reading Girl in White and Yellow"; Paul Gauguin's 1898 "Girl in Front of Open Window"; Meyer de Haan's "Self-Portrait," around 1890, and Lucian Freud's 2002 work "Woman with Eyes Closed."

Not much information on how the theft was committed:

She declined to reveal any details of how the thieves got in and out with the paintings, or how the museum is protected, other than describing its security as "state of the art" and "functional."

 Illicit Cultural Property has a post with reactions to the robbery.