“The impact of this case, due to the ruthless and violent actions of suspects, is enormous,” said the Advocate General (public prosecutor on appeal). What the employees of a cash and valuables transport and a precious metals company in Amsterdam-Noord, the police and the residents of the area around the robbery and in Broek en Waterland experienced that day is unfortunately not a sensational film script, but raw reality.”
A number of perpetrators have previously been irrevocably convicted, one suspect has been acquitted. Two suspects are still on the run.
Aimed shot
The court convicted several men earlier to years in prison for the violent robbery of the valuables transport at Schöne Edelmetaal on Meeuwenlaan. The Public Prosecution Service then also demanded 18 years in prison. According to the justice department, officers were also shot several times during the attempted escape.
The lawsuit against the robbers started a few months after the gold robbery on a valuables transport at Schöne Edelmetaal. The perpetrators made off with a loot of more than 14 million euros in mid-May 2021. With screeching tires and shooting in the air, they made their way through North, eventually ending up in the meadows near Broek in Waterland.
Pursuit
Moments earlier, the police had already started the chase. Shots would eventually be fired; something that one of the robbers, a 47-year-old Frenchman, would not survive. Six others were subsequently arrested. In the aftermath of the robbery, two suspects were added.
The suspects, who come from France, Belgium and Morocco, prepared their gold heist down to the last detail, according to the Public Prosecution Service (OM). For example, during the preparation, images were shown of the place that was to be robbed.
City channel AT5 previously made this reconstruction of the failed gold heist: