00:00Could the stolen Louvre jewels pass through Antwerp, the world's diamond capital?
00:05Here, in the city's diamond district, with more than 20 billion euros in annual turnover,
00:11there are only three ultra-secure streets and no storefronts.
00:15In this office, Sachin Shoksky believes that the heist was intended for a collector,
00:21as selling parts from the pieces would reduce their value by 80 percent.
00:26Dismantling it, breaking it, melting it down, that's impossible.
00:32It doesn't make any sense. It's like dismantling an old jaguar.
00:35The value of the separate parts is nothing. As a whole, this is really for a collector. It's unique.
00:43And these experts could recognize a diamond from the Louvre at first glance.
00:48This is an example of an old cut. And this is like the jewelry from the Louvre.
00:55It was all done by hand, not by machines.
01:00If a piece of stolen jewelry comes here, we would report it straight to the police.
01:07But only a few streets away, the jewelers' district shows a different side of the city.
01:12This is where the Louvre thieves could sell their goods, even at bargain prices.
01:17There are some of these shops that have a very bad reputation.
01:21More willing to take the risk to accept these diamonds and to try to sell them on the black market.
01:27That's exactly what happened with the jewelry stolen from Kim Kardashian in 2016.
01:32The robbers were found in Antwerp. And the star's precious accessories, valued at 9 million euros, were likely melted down, recut and resold.
01:42But in the official circuit, it's impossible to modify a diamond without certifying its origin.
01:47You can go to jail. The rules are designed to protect the diamond world from the mafia.
01:54Diamond dealers swear that the Louvre's jewelry cannot end up in their hands,
01:59unless it has been cut up and resold at a bargain price.
02:03The
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