Thieves Blow Up a Dutch Museum Door to Steal a Golden Helmet

The video is grainy but ominous: three hooded figures, clambering over one another to tug at a heavy access door of the Drents Museum — an art and history museum in Assen, the Netherlands — and then an explosion and a flurry of sparks in the wee hours of Saturday.

By daybreak, it had become clear that this was no amateur burglary. The Dutch police said the explosion was part of an elaborate effort to break into the acclaimed museum and steal some of its treasures, including a prized helmet made of gold on loan from Romania.

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