Dramatic moment gang blow up museum door & steal 2,500-year-old Golden Helmet in Ocean’s 11-style heist before vanishing

THIS is the melodramatic infinitesimal a thieves pulled disconnected a Ocean's 11-style heist to bargain a 2,500-year-old aureate helmet and 3 priceless bracelets earlier vanishing into bladed air.

Shocking footage shows the pack blasting done the doors of the Drents Museum successful Assen, a quaint Dutch metropolis known much for its motorsports than planetary creation crime.

At 3.45am connected Saturday, the tranquil streets turned chaotic arsenic an detonation tore done the museum’s entrance.

Within minutes, the thieves had snatched the aureate Helmet of Cotofenesti - an intricately decorated artefact dating backmost to 450 B.C.

They besides took 3 spiral Dacian bracelets linked to past Romanian royalty.

"This is simply a acheronian time for the Drents Museum successful Assen and the National History Museum of Romania successful Bucharest. We are intensely shocked,” said the museum’s director, Harry Tupan.

He added the instauration had ne'er seen "such a large incident" successful its 170-year history.

The helmet, a nationalist treasure of Romania, was discovered successful 1927 by a kid successful the tiny Romanian colony of Cotofenesti.

It had erstwhile been utilized arsenic a artifact and adjacent a h2o vessel for chickens earlier its humanities worth was realised.

Its beforehand is adorned with engraved mythological creatures, a antheral fig appearing to sacrifice a ram, and 2 ample ayes supra the brow line.

The bracelets, thought to day backmost to 50 B.C., were conscionable arsenic important arsenic they were recovered from the achromatic marketplace aft being looted from Dacian fortresses successful the 1990s.

The heist unfolded similar a country from Ocean’s 11.

After the explosion, the pack disappeared with the golden relics, leaving the depository damaged but nary 1 injured.

About 30 minutes later, police were alerted to a burning car nearby—a imaginable getaway conveyance acceptable alight to screen their tracks.

“A imaginable script is that the suspects switched to different conveyance successful the vicinity of the fire,” Dutch constabulary said successful a statement.

Authorities fishy respective individuals were progressive successful the meticulously planned operation.

They’ve launched a forensic investigation, reviewed CCTV footage, and enlisted Interpol to way down the artefacts.

“This is thing you don’t privation arsenic a museum, but besides arsenic a metropolis and province,” said Marco Out, the politician of Assen.

Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis said Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof assured him that each effort is being made to retrieve the stolen treasures.

It comes aft a "blowtorch-wielding" jewel thief stuffed millions of pounds worthy of bling into a rucksack during a brazen heist.

The £10million robbery was recorded connected CCTV showing a bold burglar grabbing handfuls of bangles, necklaces and rings - rapidly shoving them into his bag.

Inside the London mansion, the masked robber was snapped creeping astir the spot earlier helium went for the jewels, astir bumping into the maid arsenic helium wandered done the corridor.

Footage shows him with a level cap, achromatic gloves and a acheronian jumper arsenic helium cautiously scoops up aggregate strings of beads and jewels.

He methodically stuffs the bling into a achromatic container was caught connected camera astatine the St John's Wood location spot connected Avenue Road.

The proprietor of the stolen goods is hyper-rich Hong Kong influencer Shafira Huang, 35, known for being a taste ambassador of Bond Street's swanky Halcyon Gallery.

She has offered rewards totalling £1.5million for anyone that tin drawback the thief who made disconnected with her items and instrumentality her belongings.

After the £38.5 cardinal location was looted, the household instantly contacted the Metropolitan Police in a authorities of "big shock."

Cops judge helium is simply a achromatic antheral successful his precocious 20s to 30s and the household deliberation it was a pre-meditated, professional, job.