Heists

A selection of articles about crime, bank robbery, and all the things that happen when men with guns decide they will not obey the law. Stick-ups, shoot-outs, and kidnappings from the beaches of Nice to the sun-bleached streets of Johannesburg.

CRIME - 1 x Article

A Kidnapping in Poland

Winter in Warsaw. January 1957. A schoolboy on his way home is lured into a taxi. A ransom is demanded. An unusual crime in Communist Poland, made stranger because the boy's father is Bolesław Piasecki, an important man in the establishment. Is it about the money? Or is it something darker, connected to Piasecki's pre-war past when he marched to a different drummer? CHRISTOPHER OTHEN investigates Poland's most notorious unsolved crime.

CRIME - 1 x Article

Whiter Than White

Andre Stander was a bank robber, a jailbird, and a Captain in the South African Police at the height of apartheid. In the late 1970s he robbed banks in his lunchtime and investigated crimes in the afternoon. Stander’s double life collapsed when he was sent to prison in 1980 but after three years he escaped and launched a new crime wave with a gang recruited behind bars. CHRISTOPHER OTHEN looks at the life and death of a criminal who always thought he was the smartest kêrel in the room.

CRIME - 1 x Article

Sewer Rats

A would-be assassin, a gang of Marseilles crooks, and the biggest bank robbery in French history. In 1976 a hand-picked group of criminals and far-right veterans used the sewers of Nice to break into the Société Générale bank vault. They cleaned out over 30,000,000 francs, leaving police baffled until a jealous wife and a holiday villa provided vital clues. CHRISTOPHER OTHEN demonstrates the best way to rob a French bank. Try not get your feet wet.

ADMIN - 1 x Article

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