Fugitive sentenced
Albert Spaggiari, suspec t e d of organising France’s biggest bank robbery using the sewers of Nice, has been sentenced in absentia:to 10 years jail for possessing arms and ex» plosives, court officials have said. Spaggiari, aged 42, escaped from a Nice courthouse in March last year by jumping from a first-floor window and disappeared on the pillion of a waiting motor-cycle. He was arrested in connection with the “sewer rat” raid on a Nice bank in July, 1976, when thieves tunneled from sewers into bank vaults and stole about 50 million francs (&NZ9.7 million). Spaggiari, an extreme Right-wing militant, told investigators he masterminded the robbery to finance a formerly unknown Rightist organisation, Catena (the “Chain”), which he said aimed to help nationalists in difficulty in Europe. — Grasse (France)*
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