Albert Spaggiari
| Albert Spaggiari | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 14, 1932 Laragne-Montéglin, Hautes-Alpes, France |
| Died | June 8, 1989 (aged 56) Piedmont, Italy |
| Occupation |
Photographer Paratrooper |
| Criminal charge | Bank robbery |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment (in absentia) |
| Criminal status | Deceased |
Albert Spaggiari (December 14, 1932 – June 8, 1989), nicknamed Bert, was a French criminal chiefly known as the organizer of a break-in into a Société Générale bank in Nice, France in 1976.
Spaggiari was born in Laragne-Montéglin in the Hautes-Alpes département. He grew up in Hyères, where his mother had a lingerie store.
Spaggiari is reported to have committed his first robbery in order to offer a diamond to a girlfriend. Perhaps as part of a deal made with the authorities, he would later join a paratroop regiment during the Indochina War. He was not present at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu because he was imprisoned for robbery at the time.
During the Algerian War he worked for the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a clandestine anti-de Gaulle and anti-decolonisation organization. Despite the fact that he was probably more of a sympathiser than a real activist, Spaggiari was later sentenced to some years in prison for his OAS activities. During his imprisonment at the Santé prison, Spaggiari wrote his first autobiographic book Faut pas rire avec les barbares ("One mustn't laugh with the barbarians"). He then supported the nationalist candidacy of Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour in the 1965 French presidential election.
In 1976, he was the owner of a photographic studio in Nice, living in a house in the hills over the city named Les Oies Sauvages. He apparently quickly became bored with his law-abiding middle-class life. Later accounts described him as cavalier and stylish.
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