Patient planning and stunning ingenuity allowed the gang to loot hundreds of safe deposit boxes in a robbery that baffled the Belgian police. The viewer marvels at the sheer brilliance of the robbers.

A bungled retreat from Antwerp and meticulous, thorough police work eventually produced a suspect – a Mr Leonardo Notarbartolo who had leased premises in the Centre two years before the robbery. Notarbartolo had form and was born in Palermo…

Now a resident of Turin, he is swiftly apprehended and a senior Carabinieri officer cheerfully informs us that Turin is a “nest of thieves”. The giant Fiat factory had produced numerous crooked electronics experts and engineers who come together to undertake heists with such monotonous regularity that they are known in the press and to the public as ‘The School of Turin’.

Notarbartolo is interviewed at length and rehearses an implausible tale about being recruited to the enterprise by ‘Alessandro’, a mysterious mastermind. With his tongue firmly in cheek, Notarbartolo, having served a six-year stretch, comes across as the cat who got the cream. He indulges in the myth that it was a ‘victimless crime’, a canard that is exploded when a diamond dealer explains that many were not insured – such was their faith in the security of the Centre and to avoid painfully expensive insurance premiums –hiked by the activities of men like Notarbartolo and his associates.

Netflix’s Stolen is an entertaining and well produced documentary.

Verdict: Four stars. Worth watching.