A newly released video shows that a group of six men robbing the Hatton Garden building in London. 

The Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company’s building is in the heart of the London jewelry quarter. The video shows that six men arrived and made two separate visits between Thursday and Easter Sunday.

They left in a white van, with the contents of 72 safety deposit boxes they had emptied in to wheelie bins and bags. Although it is not clear what exactly was held in the high-value deposit boxes, it is thought millions of pounds worth of jewels, gold and cash have been stolen in the raid. Many owners of the deposit boxes used them to store valuables as a way to keep costs down so did not have insurance.

Meanwhile, the police are being accused of mishandling the raid. It has been revealed that the police were actually alerted to an intruder alarm just after midnight on Good Friday but did not respond.

The jewelry heist is thought to be one of the biggest robberies in British history. Experts and ex-robbers say that the stolen goods will have most certainly already been taken abroad.

Scotland Yard said it was “too early to say if the handling of the call would have had an impact on the outcome of the incident”.

The Metropolitan police declined to comment on the CCTV footage.

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