Dutch police said they had hoped to find a scooter at the bottom of the river but this “piece of the puzzle” remained missing. Armed robbers in flat caps stole diamonds and other jewellery in a brazen daylight raid at the European fine art fair in Maastricht on 28 June 2022. The phrase “Peaky Blinders” trended on social media in the Netherlands after the raid because the caps worn by the robbers resembled those worn by the gangsters in the Birmingham-set TV crime drama. The title of the TV show trended on social media in the Netherlands after the raid because of the flat caps worn by the suspects. An investigation agency for the jeweller’s insurance company, Charles Taylor Adjusting, has previously offered a reward of half a million pounds.
