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The Millennium Dome raid was an attempted robbery of the Millennium Dome's diamond exhibition in Greenwich, South East London occurring on 7 November 2000. A local gang planned to ram-raid the De Beers diamond exhibition which was being held in the riverside Dome at the time. The gang had then planned to escape via the Thames in a speedboat. If the heist had succeeded, then with a haul of £350 million worth of diamonds (equivalent to £627 million in 2021), it would have become one of the biggest robberies in history.