For the first time, images have been made public of the armed robbery in a warehouse on Meeuwenlaan in Noord, which preceded a wild west chase from Noord to Broek in Waterland. The images were shown on Tuesday evening in Search Requested. Wednesday spends AT5 also attention to the case in the investigation programme Desk 020†
On May 19 of last year, the robbers targeted a valuable transport of precious stones with an estimated total value of 67 million euros. On that Friday morning, the suspects came from Belgium to Meeuwenlaan in Amsterdam-North, to a precious metal company. They eventually managed to take a loot of about 12 million euros in value.
Automatic weapons
The images, made by surveillance cameras, show a number of men with automatic weapons entering the shed. In doing so, they force the company’s staff to lie on the ground and move to the side. Then it can be seen how they load the loot into the three cars they have set up for that purpose.
Just before they drive away, one of the men shoots one more time into the air, then the three cars drive away. Two of those cars then drive to Broek in Waterland. The six people in those cars are eventually arrested, one of them does not survive, he is shot and dies on the spot.
View the entire item from Opsporing Verzocht below:
The third car drives to Diemen. The occupants stop in a tunnel under the A1, set the car on fire and then drive on to Rotterdam, in a BMW that was waiting there. The police have not been able to arrest any of the people who fled to Rotterdam.
The identity of one of the four is known, it concerns 26-year-old Ibrahim Akhlal, a man who has Belgian and Moroccan nationality. The police are urgently looking for him and the other three men. In the item Opsporing Verzocht, further attention is paid to a BMW that the police are looking for and to part of the loot, which has still not been found. That is about 4.5 million euros.
