I understand that the boxes were better stocked than usual due to it being passover and the mainly Jewish diamond dealers had stored their stock in there as they would be shutting shop for a few days. Although it is easy to glamorise this as being a 'heist' the fact remains that many people, also elderly in some cases, have been left not just penniless, but owing money for the diamonds that were in their keeping but did not belong to them. My late DF was in the Met Police and worked on Kray and Richardson Brothers cases and he was first so say that there is nothing dashing and glamorous about these robbers so the comparisons being made in some areas of the media, showing these thieves as somehow relics of the good old glamorous days of the 60's are very far off the mark. Nobody may have been hurt physically, but many will have suffered financial ruin.
Agree with the comments regarding the radio and tv reporting, what relevance is their skin colour?