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And their sidekicks. A beautiful girl. Tonight the latest on a drag net more urgent than ever and unprecedented chance to go inside the gang itself. They told me would you like to participate in a Training Exercise. After 20 years of striking at will, are they finally about to be stopped . Im lester holt and this is dateline. Heres Keith Morrison on the trail of the pink panthers. It happened just over two weeks ago. Good friday. Londons diamond district. What may go down as one of the biggest and most audacious heists in history. Thieves caught only on camera drilled through concrete, stole as much as 100 million in jewels, maybe more. Got away clean. Scotland yard is investigating. The thieves have yet to be identified but people wondered was this the latest chapter in a 25year tale of larsony. Our first chapter. Beginning in monaco. Per capita quite possibly the richest and safest country on earth. Here giant private yachts all but overwhelm the harbor tucked into the tiny pocket cashed carved in the south of france. Sun and money drenched. Or so it once seemed to the former police chief. Its always so low. Why . Its a small territory. We have a lot of police. We have tv all around and the population has no fear to call the police and say i saw something thats not normal. Around monacos casino, the eye popping treasures is protected by a army of security cameras. 400 of those things trained. Everywhere you look there are uniform policeman and a police subsayings substation from one of the jewelry shops. This is one of the best protected kill meters on the face of the globe. Safe, secure, a fortress. But then it happened. June 2007. A perfect day as spring gave way to summer. It was high noon. The surveillance cameras in the jewelry shop 30 yards no more from the police station. A sales woman divided her time between a customer shopping with his child. That man in the suit wandering around the store. The salesman spoke to australias 60 minutes program. A customer was sitting here and was supposed to be a customer so i asked for watches. There was another guy and another with a newspaper and just put the gun on the face of the baby. A gun. Is man motioned his intention to use it. The child shrank back in terror. Got away in a minute and ten seconds. A minute and ten seconds . Yeah. They were not just gone from the jewelry shop. The city could fit into new york central park. In 30 seconds out of the country. So we had one minute to catch them. That was it. How much were those watches worth . Around 600,000 euros. That will make sit up and take notice. Heres the thing. That video is just one of hundreds recorded all over the world. These are heists that play like some sort of twisted criminal movie franchise. But theyre all too real. Copenhagen denmark, a fancy hotel and a jewelry shop off the lobby. Cameras showed a welldressed man entering. And two other men. First pulled a gun and others smashed cases as the first kept watch. Grabbing over 1 million of merchandise along with them. Dubai. A luxury mall in the middle of the day. Startled shoppers clicked on their camera phones as two audis crashed into a boutique. Two men grabbed 14 million worth of jewelry. On their way out they got off a couple of shots and drove off. It all happened in broad daylight in front of surveillance cameras in the steel secure capitols of the worlds wealthiest people. It would take police years to realize it but they were up against a whole new kind of gang. They are notorious and dangerous and persistent. So bold that you could call them commercial terrorists. They can find people in every country. Vicious and precise. Their attack is so quick. People are so surprised. Yet, the years no one realized that all these crimes were connected. It is not a hire arcy structure. Thats what makes them so effective. From the most bejeweled cities in the world. An International Manhunt for this Daring Network of thieves. Well take you inside Law Enforcements battle. Their decadelong investigation to figure out who are these people. Who are their masterminds and how can they be stopped . Well meet some of their women, secret weapons. Very beautiful, beautiful girl. But for every job she would have to change her look. And well see what it may be like to be one of these young criminals in training. I was basically wondering is it really like the movie. And well discover maybe in some ways it is. But at first back to the beginning. We trace the gangs rise. How the heist got more and more daring and the spoils reached the stratosphere. When you talk about hitting a Jewelry Store, they get away with how much merchandise, how much money. Then a pattern detected. The surprising thing that thieves had in common. Home and auto. Lamp squares. Stupid, dumb. Lines. 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The year 1988, the crime apparently isolated. A Diamond Wholesalers vault was ransacked. Now fastforward five years. 1993. Switzerland. The year of the jewelry and watch fair. Three diamonds valued over 3 3. 5 million vanished and three watches worth thousands upon thousands of dollars. Honolulu, a place called the golden boutique, four men said to be dressed in the nines, 1 million worth of watches gone. A pattern was emerging except as we found out, no one could see it at the time. For one thing as former chief told us other problems seemed more pressing back then. In 1993, 1994 the u. S. Had a crime epidemic robberies. Rapes, murders, Violent Crime and early 1993 is when the world trade bombing occurred. Many countries were focused on terrorism as well. There was a another reason, too. This was a pre911 era where companies did not share information. The standard operating proceed was you collect fingerprints, witness testimony and you put it in a database and you compare it against other information from your own country. You dont compare it internationally. Of course, the internet had barely begun. Google was just a funny word. Email only for nerds. Cell phones were still a luxury item back then and connections among National Police forces were rare. All in all, a great time to be an international jewel thief. But then one of the thieves made a mistake. He got caught. 1995 new york city. The fbi arrested a guy named alexander gupkvic for the honolulu robbery and then they checked the records and it turned out the nypd had arrested him back in 1988 for boosting a bunch of diamonds from the diamond district right here. He was a canadian citizen, spoke very little english. He was from yuk slavia. Anybody ever heard of this guy . Well, in fact somebody had. Oko was wanted in the 93 robbery in switzerland. Once more, we learned of the expensive watch he was wearing when Police Arrested him was one of the three stolen from the store in tokyo in 1994. Thats how police linked one man to all the high profile heists. By 1996 he was marking time on the u. S. Prison clock. So with this big fish in Lockup Police told us they naturally assumed they cracked a busy but singular operation. A oneman theft machine. But then something strange. The robbery didnt stop. Far from it. We found reports from all over the globe of these highly distinctive operations, all so similar, quick, inventive, bold. But because Law Enforcement at the time didnt have any way to look at the whole picture, they didnt make the connection. We talked to british journalist who has tracked the history of this gang of thieves. Europe just knew as long as they were over border they would get away with it. So the robbers then out of country after country. The police plotting behind. Where they could fly into a country, commit a robbery, leave and the investigation would be of nationals other than the country. Then finally a few began to see it. We follow the trail to switzerland to speak with this man. An investigator, eequivalent to the fbi. Back then he was one of the cops trying to figure out who these people were. When did you first notice these robberies that were different . I think it was in january 2003. At the beginning there was organized like small gangs. How many gangs were there . Were they acting independently or somehow related . Part of something bigger. So many questions. Not many answers. One day it might be person a, person b. Next day a and c. Even as cops struggled to figure out what was happening, the thieves were getting more and more sophisticated. Bigger schemes. We are in paris, the heart of the world some would say. It would be certainly the world of jewelry in this 200 square meter area. Perhaps more expensive jewelry than in any other place than on the face of the globe. 2001 two men dressed in coveralls melted off the security coding and made off with over 1. 5 million worth of goods. When you talk about hitting a Jewelry Store, they get away with how much merchandise, how much money . It depends. Sometimes it could be consider example 200 watches. The other detectives poured over the video tapes and witness accounts and started to notice one thing the thieves seemed to have in common. There were people coming from serbia. The same place that was home to the thief the fbi nabbed in new york. Few slovak names. Not much to go on. Soon they would get another name, one straight from the movies and the cops would form a real life plan to battle. Coming up, the gang gets a hollywood nickname and seems to enjoy it. The pink panthers that i spoke to also really liked the term. They thought it was funny. But then the thieves make a critical error that could be their undoing. 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It was the thieves biggest hit yet. Britains biggest robbery ever. The chase in scotland. The Security Guard nabbed a thief on the spot but his acomp his got away and he stashed some jewels with the local fixer and fled the uk. Two months later scotland ladder found the fixer holed up in a london flat with his girlfriend who hid the blue diamond ring in a jar of cold cream. The tactic came straight out of the movie. Return of the pink panther. Clever. Irresistible. The name stuck. From then on if the heists were committed by a serbian the Police Called it a pink panther crime. The pink panthers that i spoke too also really liked the term. They all thought it was funny. Police believed the thieves were flaunting that new monicker. Maybe the name gave them motivation, too. After 2003 the speed and the boldness of their heists as the video shows increased. France, pink panthers painted a bench outside a jewelry shop discouraging potential witnesses from sitting down as they rob the place. 2004 the paris antiques fair under bright lights and heavy security displayed a 16 million diamond. Then the prime ministers wife arrived and eyes were distracted. The diamond vanished. 2005. Brussels, in full view of Jewelry Store surveillance cameras four thieves took axes to the display cases and made off with over 500,000 worth of gems and then in 2007 two pink panthers hit sun drenched super rich monaco. That heist was a critical mistake. Because after the robbery, little monacos police chief decided it was time to get tough. Oh, no, not the way you might think. He didnt hire cops or buy guns. He called interpol. I asked them to organize a meeting between countries who had robberies made by the pink panthers. Its a Global Police organization tracking the worlds criminals. Why did you think that interpol was the right way to go . Because its still the organization where we can share all the information, all the operation and the information about this. It was an almost quaint, even nerdy approach, form a committee. But as former chief, it was a turning point. Monaco should be given credit. It opened the investigation up because countries came together and said we want to talk to you about this robbery that occurred. For the first time cops from Different Countries worked as a team and set up a database and there they were, connections among the robberies they couldnt see before. For example, that heist in dubai, 2007, it would be the panthers most spec tar collar production with the audi cars are driving into a mall. They got cell phone numbers and dna and fingers prints and sent that information to them. The first hit we had we matched it to a pink panther robbery in licktinstein. After 19 years, nearly 100 holdups the cops made the investigation that had been there from the start. We said wow, the pink panthers are engaging in robberies around the world. Investigators told us this was something they had never seen before. A global conspiracy of thieves. As they connected the dots, the panthers to their crime, they made another connection. The water shed moment that unleashed it all. Good evening. November 9th, 1989. Berlin. What a fine night it was. Or so it seemed to most of the world. But it wasnt long before civil wars began to rip apart what was once yukgoslavia. By the year 2000 the wars left behind, all but devoid of work or hope for a future, young me trained to fight turned to crime. These are guys who there was no way out except to become a criminal. Even after those wars turned out this new breed of criminal, another Historic Development in the 1990s made transnational crimes search. The European Union was born and with it relaxed and unguarded borders. With the borders coming down organized crime groups only at a National Level were able to operate much more internationally. Thats when groups of desperate men trained in violence with the ability to cross borders at will began to get a singular idea and the pink panthers were born. Now, the cops had a name and an origin story for these super villains. But to learn how they operate, that would take more digging. And lead to some surprises. Coming up, a rare look inside the gang revealing the secret of their success. Thats where all the real effort goes. And then why the pink panthers have taken on some seductive side kicks. Its much easier to do it as a woman or with a woman. Kicks. Its much easier to do it as a woman or with a woman. Family of jeweled feline treasures. 100,000 to the lady in the leopard print. Sprint told us theyd cut our verizon bill in half. Oh yeah. Wed save a bunch of money on our rate plan by switching to sprint. But we dont need to save money, do we mama . 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Theres not so much in serbi serbia. No. One thing they could find was a cash of weapons. Some of them were in the army so they know the guns and know how to use a hand or machine guns. They used guns to threaten people and tear gas and force, violence, threat of force and violence. And yet, several cops told us the panthers seem to be going out of their way to leave their victims alive. But thieves with hearts of gold, oh, no. By 2005 the cops noticed Something Else. Their profile is not different from the al qaeda terrorist profile. An unconnected group of individuals with a powerful central loyalty but not in this case to a cause or a person. Or a country. Only to money. Journalist havana martin. No sorts of hierarchy. Theres a kind of network where five or six guys will have connections to the other groups. She spent years tracking the panthers for a documentary she calls smash and grab. Its a title that works for the pink panthers because smash and grab is a term for a kind of theft where youre in and out. She was filming, she gradually earned the trust of several panthers who agreed to speak with her on one condition. She could not reveal their identities. So she said she recorded the interviews and then added a few cinematic layers. If they were able to speak english, i was able to lip sync and ian mated the film. Heres one who calls himself mike. Who are the pink panthers . I dont have a badge that says pink panther on it. We are a network of teams working together and as i was involved i became part of that. Everybody has a specific job to do. Its when mark talked to mike and other panthers she said that she got it. The key to their success, meticulous planning. The preparation before and the work after the smash and grab are way more important and thats why all the real effort goes. Mike told her Something Else that surprised her. The panthers map out all those plans months in advance. Often beginning with the help of a woman. A woman is exceptional. She spoke to one of the exceptional woman. Calling herself lila. She tells how she would scout a jewelry shop to figure out the routines. When does it open. When do they go out for coffee or how long they would be out. To scout and case the kind of places youre going to steal. Its much easier to do it as a woman or with a woman. Then she said the female scout would return and help the planners get to their meticulous work. Another member of the gang will draw everything she says exactly the layout of the shop. The plan was often ingenious. They used someone who looks normal. But what they do now, they pull false hair, glasses and this sort of thing. And the plan to get out. Even better. They jump into the car with one car opening the way and the other car with the stuff inside. They run away with the cars to their apartment where they stay one or two days or back to italy. Outside the border. Outside the border. And the border controls are lack thereof. Made it so simple. The border. Like cheese. Cheese . Like grier. Easy to come in and come out. A ten and fast minute ride from a street in geneva. A stone like this on many of the country roads outside the city. On this side switzerland. On that side france. And theres nobody to tell you not to go there. It was inevitable that in all these cops and robbers stuff. Dont you admire them in some way . Some way, yes, of course. A new way to make robbery. Very creative. Such adaptable, creative thieves playing cat and mouse with the cops. For me its a game. Finally after 20 years of tracking the panthers and learning how they operated the cops felt they were ready to play the game and win. But were they really . Coming up, investigators get a huge break, a chanced sighting in a most unlikely place. I see big guy. 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Their obsession began to pay off. Our Police Contacts agreed to show us how it all went down. May 2008. Detective glassy was over the border in france on another case inside this hotel. I was there at the table with my french and swiss colleagues. He happened to notice three men walking down the stairway into the lobby. I see big guy. Suddenly, glassy realized he knew one of them. Knew his face. From studying mugshot after mugshot from interpol. By sheer coincidence his long time fray was right in front of him. What happened next seemed straight out of a movie. One of the panthers took off on foot. The detective in hot pursuit. He run and dropped. The pink panther ran toward a school yard. Got caught on a gate. I catch him and fight for three or four minutes. He was a big guy . Yeah, but he was lying on i was trying to keep him and i was speaking to him. You cant give up, stop, stop. But he didnt. Instead the pink panther tore free and ran, cut and bleeding now, across the school yard. It was like a movie. The scene with children in the school. A big, tall guy running like that. We jump over the fence. Where the farmer was. A farmer . A farmer. A farmer offered to join the chase. But the detective knew he needed more help than that. Its one of the most wanted guy. We needed a helicopters, a dog. Hes here. In the end a police dog sniffed the pink panther out. The dog found him hiding in the bushes. The suspect seemed impressed. He just said good job. The other bandits were arrested before they could leave the hotel. Three big pinks down but many more to go. Next stop, monaco, the Little Country whose police chief got interpol involved and running a war of his own against the pink panthers. Every day you have to work what is going well and wrong. You have to correct what is going wrong. Now monaco was ready. Its network of security cameras backed up by its uniformed officers and plain clothed spotters. In every jewelry shop known members of the pink panther supplied by interpol. Surely they wouldnt try something under these conditions, would they . Yes, they would. October 2008. A car ran over a tourists foot. At first the man resisted medical attention but the pain was too great and the policeman making the accident report thought the man and his companion looked familiar. More of him i came to the realization i recognized two people part of a search bulletin posted on the wall. An interpol search bulletin. The men were alleged pink panthers that come to seem to rob a Jewelry Store. Instead Police Arrested them. Two more down. On to paris. May 2009. The detective here got a tip from the swiss, two pink panthers were in Town Planning something. We worked two, three days to find the place where they were living. Here on a narrow street, a modest hotel. You had people stationed around the hotel then . Everywhere. And we would stay overnight until morning. Set himself up at a cafe and waited. And even pink panthers need their morning coffee. What was it like to see him walk in . It was a surprise. I bet. You let him finish his coffee . No. Not quite. Just had the time to drink it. The paris cops arrested the other thief back at the hotel. Two more behind bars. In the last few years they rounded up several of the masterminds behind the gangs biggest jobs. They got this man, a top panther for almost 20 years. Last year Spanish Police nabbed this one, one of the architects of that dubai heist. Was the tide finally turning . What started as a small tight knit group has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger but equally the police have gotten better and better at catching them. Police had taken down key players. They had to be damaging to pink Panther Organization at its core. And yet, even as the arrests piled up, so did more robberies because the game had changed. A whole new generation was joining up. Younger and more dangerous. The new generation is more violent. Next, well take you deep into their lair where few dare to tread and meet the original pink panther face to face. Buckle up. Coming up, on an unprecedented ridealong with this gang of thieves. They told me would you like to participate in a Training Exercise. Then for invest gators a stunning turn of events. Just tender, juicy 100 chicken breast filet. Try mcdonalds new artisan grilled chicken. Because tasting is lovin. No other scents feel like glade. Uplift your tired tuesday attitude with our clean linen fragrance. Feel fresh and new. Feel glade. Sc johnson. A family company. Nothing will keep you from magnum double caramel. Silky vanilla bean ice cream and rich caramel sauce all covered in thick chocolate. Magnum, the only ice cream bar made with belgian chocolate. 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If you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance you switch to geico. Its what you do. Two wheels a turnin. Police around the world have locked up more than 200 pink panthers in just the past five years. But have the cops won the battle . No, they have not. One thing as youll soon hear their enemy has changed and for another, many from the same old bunch are right back on the street where they came from. The sentences in europe for Armed Robbery are not severe enough to get arrested and convicted and only spend a couple of years in jail. Thats not really much of a deterrent. Where does a panther go then . Investigators told us many of them hole up in this quiet unassuming spot. A pictureesque village. This is a former capitol of montinegro. Seemed to inspire perhaps tongue in cheek civic pride. Other than that from the looks of this quaint little town you would never expect to find a jewel thief, let alone the whole gang of them. But theyre here hiding in plain sight. Just a few years back, a french film crew interviewed the owner of a local grocery store. His name, milan and his business isnt just groceries. Look at the color of his shirt. He was the original pink panther. The one whose girlfriend back in 2003 hid the blue diamond ring in the jar of cold cream. He was arrested then but only served five years in prison. Milan wasnt pleased to be interviewed but he did answer the interviewers questions and as much as admitted he was indeed the guy. Scotland yard, you know, because they find something in, they said that i copied some movie. I dont know. Where am i gonna put it . There is no films, there is no nothing. And know everybodys connected with everybody. I dont know anyone, trust me. I dont care about none of them. I finished my stuff and thats it. Im done. You have regrets about it . Of course, i do. Its past, finished. What i can do . Is he finished . Is investigators told us some members of the old guard are indeed packing it in. But the whole new bunch is rising to take their place, the young panthers. Watch out. The new generation of panthers are different, theyve grown up and come from an environment which is much less disciplined. Baby panthers. Young, mean, and greedy. The differences are pretty much the same as any other generational differences. Rocco is a former editor in chief of vice media. Last year he traveled to setinia and met up with these new baby panthers. The new generation were 18 and 20. Just boys, right . Yeah. They were young. Definitely young. You two are training to become pink panthers . Why . Theres no prospect for a better he wanted to know how they learned to do what they do. He said the young men at the bar made a proposal. They told me would you like to participate in a Training Exercise and i said well, im not going to rob a Jewelry Store. They said no, no, we have a friend and this is how we train. Cameras were rolling as he made his debut as a pink panther. Black black ski mask and all. Pulling up to this mocked up store. With those panthers in training smashing and grabbing every Costume Jewelry laid out for them all in one minute. I cant say it wasnt a rush. It seemed to come straight out of the old panther playbook. But since dwktetective glassy, this young generation is not the same. Its different. Not so much professional. Those heists at dubai and monaco had simply stopped. Instead, recent panther heists are much smaller but far more frequent. The amount they can do when they do the heist is smaller but they do a lot of them during the year to have approximately the same amount of money at the end of the year. They turned away from well guarded old targets like paris and monaco. And instead are focused on smaller less famously glittery places. And scanned navyia, greece and back home. As they are looking for new places to rob. To steel from, you have to recruit more and more people to get access to those new countries. And with a new generation come new and disturbing behaviors. Here they are tying up a Jewelry Store manager in a heist two years ago. The older guard of panther seemed to take pride in leaving their victims unharmed, a restraint the newcomers seem to lack. Theyre more violent. They have a criminal past. They are recruiting from the gangs of s e rbia and behave more like mob employees. Seem to want them tough by loyal, the boss. Theyre teenagers some of them. Prone to panic. When youre panicking, thats when Dangerous Things happen and when people get hurt. I think probably the Younger Generation dont care so much. And people have been getting hurt, even killed. Including Law Enforcement. We have already five different cases, one case a cop has died in serbia. It was a robbery in a jewelry shop. What once seemed like a cat and mouse game to investigators has become much deadlier but another death hit closest to home for interpol. Former police chief who we first interviewed in 2010, he helped create the force that took on the panthers. It happened in june 2013. A boating accident on the riviera. Or at least it looked like an accident. But he had many enemies in the criminal world, suspicion of foul play has not gone away and Monaco Police still has not closed their investigation. It was him who seemed to finally slowed the advance of the pink panther but now those baby panthers just get more and more hungry. When they do a heist, they learn about it. And the skill of the team is growing always. Latest reports say that good fridays heist in london was probably not the work of the pink panthers, but you can bet the gang is not done yet. After all, they got their name from the movies. And you know how it is with sequels. As long as theres money to be made, who knows how many therell be. Thats all for this edition of dateline. Well e you thursday at 10 00 9 00 central. Im lester holt. 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