At a glance
An English-language nickname, popularised after the fact, for the Italian group around Notarbartolo. It is not an official Belgian court title. The phrase signals a crew from the Turin area, not a licensed school. No. The Diamond Centre held many tenants' boxes. English headlines sometimes blurred the building with the wider Antwerp trade or with De Beers.
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Antwerp diamond heist · Who was convicted?
Leonardo Notarbartolo, who rented space in the building, was the best-known defendant and served a Belgian sentence. Associates later grouped in English as the School of Turin were convicted in person or in absentia. Convictions did not include recovery of most of the goods. Most were not. A discarded cache of papers and tape near Brussels helped investigators, but it was not the haul.
Antwerp diamond heist · What is the School of Turin?
An English-language nickname, popularised after the fact, for the Italian group around Notarbartolo. It is not an official Belgian court title. The phrase signals a crew from the Turin area, not a licensed school. No. The Diamond Centre held many tenants' boxes. English headlines sometimes blurred the building with the wider Antwerp trade or with De Beers.
Antwerp diamond heist · Why is the status mixed rather than convicted?
People were convicted, so the file is not unsolved in the Gardner sense. The goods were not returned and some defendants were tried in absentia, so it is not a fully closed restitution case. Mixed is the honest token. There was no single celebrity statute. The district and building operators reviewed access and custody.
Antwerp diamond heist · blurb
An Italian who rented office space in the Diamond Centre. Belgian courts treated him as a central figure and sent him to prison. Later interviews disputed official estimates. He is the name English readers remember. Men later grouped in English as the School of Turin were convicted in Belgian proceedings. Several were not in the dock. Their sentences did not come with a table of recovered stones.
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People were convicted, so the file is not unsolved in the Gardner sense. The goods were not returned and some defendants were tried in absentia, so it is not a fully closed restitution case. Mixed is the honest token. There was no single celebrity statute. The district and building operators reviewed access and custody.
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An Italian who rented office space in the Diamond Centre. Belgian courts treated him as a central figure and sent him to prison. Later interviews disputed official estimates. He is the name English readers remember. Men later grouped in English as the School of Turin were convicted in Belgian proceedings. Several were not in the dock. Their sentences did not come with a table of recovered stones.
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