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CANADA: Masterminds TV - The Irish Mob TV - The Score 2001 - Trailer Park Boys TV - Foolproof 2003 - Kings of Coke TV -

 

A phantom bandit robbed banks across the nation using techniques never seen before and made himself millions.  Masterminds e39: The Phantom Bandit, History 2003   

   

In the mid-1980s Canada was hit with dramatic rise in bank robberies.  ibid.

 

Gilbert GalvanAn American fugitive who robbed over 50 Canadian banks and made himself millions.  ibid.  

 

 

In the 1970s three Canadian criminals pulled off a string of daring bank robberies from Montreal to Miami … in more than 140 bank robberies.  But in September 1980 time ran out for the Stopwatch gang.  The Irish Mob s1e4, 2016

 

 

It’s in the Montreal Customs House … Four million balls; how many times have I got to tell you.  The Score 2001 starring Marlon Brando & Robert de Niro & Edward Norton & Angela Bassett & Gary Palmer & Paul Soles & Jamie Harrold & Serge Houde & Martin Drainville et al, director Frank Oz, Brando to de Niro

 

I’m not going to lie to you – can I borrow your car to do a truck heist?  Trailer Park Boys s10e5: If You Don’t Believe It, It’s Not Real, Ricky to Lucy  

 

 

I know what I’m doing.  I’ve watched movies like Casino, or Goodfellas, a bunch of Robert De Niro films Heat – you know, they do a big job and then they sit on the money for a little while.  And that’s the key because you start flashing money around right out of the gate, you’re going to go back to jail.  Trailer Park Boys: Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys, Julian, 2008

 

 

Pretty good?  It’s foolproof.  Foolproof 2003 starring Ryan Reynolds & David Suchet & Kristin Booth & David Hewlett & James Allodi & Joris Jarsky & Sean Sullivan & Tara Slone & Soo Garay & William House & Wai Choy et al, director William Phillips, Helen

 

Leo the Touch I presume?  ibid.  rozzer

 

 

We used to rob a minimum of three banks a week … It was a crazy crazy time.  Kings of Coke, dude, Sky Documentaries 2022

 

 

 

COLOMBIA: Scam City TV -

 

There’s a shadow hanging over this town: it’s rumoured to have a problem with gangs whose women drug unsuspecting victims before robbing them  the so-called Black Widow scam.  Scam City s2e9: Bogota, National Geographic 2014

 

‘With an overdose they can live you or leave you with a mental illness.’  ibid.  cab-driver’s advice

 

1,200 Scopolamine crimes were reported to police in 2012.  It’s believed this is only the tip of the iceberg.  ibid.  

 

 

 

CYPRUS: Art of the Heist TV -

 

In the 1970s the black market in religious artefacts had exploded into a multi-million-dollar industry.  The war-torn island of Cyprus was being picked clean.  This is the story of how a sophisticated ring of smugglers ripped a sacred mosaic from the walls of a church then tried to hawk it on the open market.  Little did they realise that their greed would trigger a global clamour for its recovery that would culminate in a daring police raid which uncovered $40 million in stolen artefacts and change the trade in antiquities for ever  Art of the Heist s1e5: Den of Antiquities, 2006

 

The theft had all the hallmarks of a professional smuggling ring.  ibid.

 

Inside the crates were fragments of a young Christ, Matthew, James and the archangel that had so captivated her [Peg L Goldberg].  ibid.

 

Judge Noland ruled that the mosaics belonged to the Church of Cyprus.  ibid.  

 

 

 

CZECH REPUBLIC: Scam City TV

 

I’m in a nightclub on the edge of town.  It’s a bad situation and I don’t know how to get out.  Scam City s1e2: Prague, National Geographic 2012

 

Not all taxicabs in Prague are playing by the same rules.  ibid.  

 

Lady pickpockets followed by fake drugs.  ibid.

 

The clip joint scam: the victim is sucked in with the promise of a good time.  ibid.

 

 

 

EGYPT: Art of the Heist TV - 

 

It was an elaborate swindle: disguising precision Egyptian antiquities as tourist souvenirs so they could be smuggled out of the country.  Art of the Heist s2e2: The Pharaoh’s Head, 2007

 

They belonged in the government store in Egypt.  ibid.

 

Ancient Egyptian artefacts began to flow freely from where they were discovered to collections in the West.  ibid.

 

Jonathan Tokeley-Parry ... A reputation as a brilliant antique restorer.  ibid.

 

 

 

FRANCE: Heists TV - Art of the Heist TV - Masterminds TV - Le Deuxieme Souffle 1966 - The French Connection: Inside the New Mafias TV - Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes 1955 - Sewers of Gold 1979 - Ocean’s 12 2004 - Le Cercle Rouge 1970 -

 

The Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world.  And at £2.5 billion it’s also the most famous.  Heists s1e5: Mona Lisa, Channel 5 2017

 

Just over a hundred years ago the Mona Lisa was snatched from the world’s most famous museum.  The crime sent shock waves around the world and baffled the world’s greatest living detective.  ibid.    

 

The greatest art heist ever: August 22nd 1911.  ibid.

 

 

 

In December 1913 a man arrived with a trunk in Florence after a sixteen-hour train journey from Paris.  He checked into a run-down hotel, and the next day he was visited by two of Italy’s greatest experts in art.  The man had something to give them: the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.  The Mona Lisa had been taken from the Louvre two years earlier in one of the coolest and most brazen art robberies ever.  Art of the Heist s2e3: The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa, 2007

 

It had simply just vanished ... A humble Italian carpenter had outwitted the whole of the French art establishment ... It was more than twenty-four hours before anyone even realised the Mona Lisa was missing.  ibid.

 

Luck and police incompetence favoured [Vincenzo] Peruggia.  ibid.

 

Two names came up, names familiar in the world of art and letters.  One was a poet.  The other a young Spanish artist who was already showing promise: Pablo Picasso.  ibid.

 

Peruggia treated the Mona Lisa with respect.  ibid.

 

He told the court his motive for the theft was national pride.  ibid.

 

For a long time he had slept with the Mona Lisa by his bed.  ibid.

 

Its fascination has always been her expression: the Mona Lisa smile.  ibid.

 

The Louvre was shut indefinitely.  But still had to face the public outcry.  ibid.

 

The authorities clung to the faint hope that the theft was a publicity stunt.  There were plenty of other theories.  ibid.

 

A thumbprint from the thief.  Finger-printing was a relatively new science.  ibid.

 

 

A mastermind breaks into the most heavily fortified vault in France.  Tunnelling under the busy city streets he advances at a rate of six inches a day, and scores twelve million in cash and jewels.  Masterminds s1e13: Riviera Job, History 2003

 

Without Arms, Without Hate and Without Violence.  ibid.  message on walls of vault

 

Spaggiari now assembles his elite team made up of former paratroopers, members of the Marseilles Mob and tunnelling experts.  ibid.

 

He not only confesses to the crime he brags about his brilliance.  ibid.

 

Spaggiari disappears without a trace.  ibid.

 

After thirteen years on the run Spaggiari surfaces one last time ... Suffering from cancer the mastermind of France’s greatest vault heist dies.  ibid.

 

 

A mastermind breaks into the most heavily fortified vault in France.  Tunnelling under the busy city streets he advances at a rate of six inches a day, and scores twelve million in cash and jewels.  Masterminds s1e15: Safe Landing, History 2003

 

Without Arms, Without Hate and Without Violence.  ibid.  message on walls of vault

 

Spaggiari now assembles his elite team made up of former paratroopers, members of the Marseilles Mob and tunnelling experts.  ibid.

 

He not only confesses to the crime he brags about his brilliance.  ibid.

 

Spaggiari disappears without a trace.  ibid.

 

After thirteen years on the run Spaggiari surfaces one last time ... Suffering from cancer the mastermind of France’s greatest vault heist dies.  ibid.

 

 

Manouche: Gu’s escaped.

 

Alban: We’ve got to find him and hide him.  Le Deuxieme Souffle 1966 starring Lino Ventura & Paul Meurisse & Raymond Pellegrin & Christine Fabrega & Marcel Bozzuffi & Denis Manuel & Michel Constantin & Pierre Zimmer & Pierre Grasset & Paul Frankeur et al, director Jean-Pierre Melville     

 

He [Jacques] got a bellyful of slugs.  ibid.  rozzer  

 

I have inside information … Two motorcycle cops escorting a van with 1,100 pounds of platinum.  A five-way split, 200 million each, including my inside source.  ibid.  Paul  

 

We’ve been crooks since we were kids.  ibid.  Manouche to Gu

 

We need just one tiny lead and we’ll work it to the very end.  ibid.  rozzer

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