$500m heist of the century: How a twinkly-eyed Italian outsmarted the 'Fort Knox' of Antwerp's diamond district in an audacious robbery worthy of an Ocean's Eleven plot... only to be foiled by a half-eaten salami sandwich
The fact that it was two floors down and behind a foot-deep steel door with a magnetic security alarm, two-part master key and a second lock with a million possible combinations.
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