{{Police in Belgium, Switzerland and France have arrested 31 people in connection with one of the world’s largest robberies of diamonds.}}<\/p>\n
Belgian prosecutors say they have recovered large sums of money and some of the diamonds that were taken in a raid at Brussels airport in February.<\/p>\n
A gang cut through the airport’s perimeter fence and broke into the cargo hold of a Swiss aeroplane as it waited for take off.<\/p>\n
They took $50m (\u00a332m) of diamonds.<\/p>\n
The diamonds were “rough stones” being transported from Antwerp to Zurich.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors described the thieves as “professionals”.<\/p>\n
They had dressed as police, wore masks and were well armed.<\/p>\n
They forced their way through security barriers and drove towards the Helvetic Airways plane, forcing open the cargo to reach gems that had already been loaded.<\/p>\n
They snatched 120 packages before escaping through the same hole in the fence.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said the whole operation took only about five minutes, no shots were fired and no-one was hurt.<\/p>\n
One suspect was arrested in France and eight in Switzerland on Tuesday, Belgian prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
The other 24 were rounded up near Brussels early on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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