Bonnot Gang

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The Bonnot Gang (French: La Bande à Bonnot [la bɑ̃d a bɔno]), or The Tragic Bandits (Les Bandes Tragiques), was a French anarchist group which operated in France and Belgium during the late Belle Époque from 1911 to 1912. Composed of individuals who identified with the illegalist milieu, the gang used new technology, such as cars and repeating rifles not then available to the police. The press originally referred to them as simply "The Auto Bandits", as they carried out the first motorized robberies and bank raids in world history, killing at least four people in the process and injuring several more. They have been called the "inventors of the motorized get-away". The group also earned the moniker Les bandes tragiques from the press due to a sense of the group's "desperate courage", who were painted as tragicomic figures for their working-class origins and espoused anarchist politics. Ultimately, the gang became known by the title of "The Bonnot Gang" after Jules Bonnot gave an interview...

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