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Sep 15
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The Most Successful Heist in History - T...

Ray William Johnson
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Albert Spaggiari was a French criminal known for masterminding what was called the “heist of the century” — the 1976 break-in of the Société Générale bank in Nice. He and a team dug an eight-meter tunnel from the city sewers to reach the bank vault, breaking into hundreds of safety deposit boxes and stealing millions of francs in money, bonds, and valuables.

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