In January 2017, thieves stole rare books worth over £2.5 million from a warehouse in Feltham, west London.
[1][2] Daniel David and Victor Opariuc cut and entered a hole in the facility's fencing and climbed a wall to its roof.
[3] In what sources described as a Mission: Impossible-style entrance, they bored holes into the roof's fiberglass-reinforced skylights and rappelled 40 feet down.
Authorities believed the heist was commissioned by specialist collector, as the goods would be impossible to auction based on their unique rarity.
[5] Over the next three years, police conducted 45 raids across three countries, charging 13 people en route to recovering 200 books beneath the floorboards of a house in rural Romania.