Police arrest mastermind of 1976 French Ocean's Eleven bank heist - Telegraph

Police arrest mastermind of 1976 French Ocean's Eleven bank heist - Telegraph: "Police seized Jacques Cassandri, a known figure of the southern French underworld, after he purported to set the record straight in writing about his role in the Rivieria robbery.
Mr Cassandri, 68, is under investigation on suspicion of possessing 'illegally obtained funds, money laundering and non-justification of (financial) resources'.
In The Truth about the Nice Heist, Mr Cassandri – writing under the pseudonym Amigo – says he is tired of living in the shadow of the man assumed to have run the Ocean's Eleven-style bank job, Albert Spaggiari, who he claims in fact only played a bit part.
On 16 July 1976, after two months of drilling through the underlying sewers, a commando of 13 robbers finally broke into the vaults of the Société Générale bank in central Nice. They spent the next six days clearing 370 coffers of gold ingots, jewellery and cash amounting to 50 million francs – today worth around £24 million – before making their getaway just as the rising sewage waters began to flood the bank.
When police arrived, they found the words 'neither weapons, nor violence, nor hatred,' scrawled on the walls."

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