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1976, French National Day weekend, a 20-member criminal gang composed of French photographer and former paratrooper Albert Spaggiari robbed Societe Generale. This "sewer gang" successfully escaped after stealing gold, cash and jewelry with a total value of 8 million-10/00000 dollars.

This case was called "robbery of the century" by the media, and it was the biggest robbery in history at that time. Why did Spaggiari, who flaunted himself as a senior criminal, rob Societe Generale and escape? Please follow Bian Xiao into the Societe Generale robbery and explore the truth behind the case together.

Spaggiari was born in 195 1 a poor Italian immigrant family in Nabone, France. 10 years old, he wrote a letter to a famous mafia leader in Marseille, and the newspaper informed him that he wanted to join his gang. Spaggiari noticed that the mafia was generous and never worried about not being able to afford high-end products, but Spaggiari didn't get any reply.

Spaggiari thought that the army was an ideal place to pursue money ambition, so he was sent to serve in China. He organized a paramilitary fraternity in his spare time, robbed many Vietnamese nightclubs and smuggled sophisticated weapons made in Czechoslovakia. Four years later, he retired in disgrace, but he had more money than he could spend.

Spaggiari wandered around Nice for several years. He was in charge of weapons for some right-wing organizations, and developed a hobby of Bordeaux wine and Don Miguel cigars brewed by 196 1. In 1970s, Nice's biggest trump card was the Industrial Bank City Branch located at the corner of Bode Hotel Street and Delauer Street.

It is reported that the bank's storage room has 4000 oversized drawers. 1975 In the autumn, Spaggiari made the first transaction with Industrial Bank, and he signed the storage drawer numbered 3 164 under the name of Yves Montaigne Pellier.

He put in an alarm clock set at 1 1: 30 in the evening, a battery-powered timer radio (loudly broadcast at 3: 30 every morning) and a homemade small explosive stick, and connected it to a miniature detonating device controlled by a travel alarm clock.

When he came back the next week, his drawer was burnt black by a small explosion, but neither the security guards in the vault nor the bank staff responded.

Spaggiari smuggled 500 francs to an employee of the urban construction and sewage treatment department in Nice and got a map of the city's lower abdomen. Just 26 feet underground from the storage room, there is a spillway across the Pashui River. There is an underground manhole in front of an Islamic coffee shop, and it is easy to get to the flood discharge canal.

1On April 7th, 976, it took the gang four days to pry open more than 400 safes. During this period, they cooked and drank in the vault, and made toilets with antique silverware inside.

19761At the end of October, Spaggiari was arrested and confessed to the crime. During the trial, he distracted the judge, boldly jumped out of the window, got on the motorcycle that had been waiting outside, and successfully escaped.

The motorcycle sped along the provincial capital street, crossed several blocks, turned into a small street, and then disappeared into the alley. Spaggiari, a fugitive, died of throat cancer in a village hut in Beluno on 1989. The police finally failed to recover the property robbed by the gang.