On Monday January 29, 1968, the Usinor-Longwy vault was found empty. During the weekend, high-level burglars took over the pay of steel workers. Or 1,068,000 francs (106 million old) distributed in 2,774 bags. The biggest heist in the region! And the most daring. To achieve their ends, the intruders drilled a hole through the facade of the building into the safe, through: a freestone wall, a second in rubble and, finally, a 15 cm reinforced concrete veil. Investigators from the Longwy police station, then the Nancy judicial police, managed to trace the route of the “wall piercers”, to determine that they had an informer in the factory and, even, to identify them! But the authorities will never get their hands on these Arsène Lupines. For this reason, their names remain unknown to the general public, fifty-three years after the events. The prescription now benefits the authors of the theft, whose traces have disappeared from the archives …
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