The Gang des Postiches: France’s Daring 1980s Wig-Wearing Bank Robbers
In the 1980s, a crew of childhood friends from Paris’s Belleville neighborhood became legends as the Gang des Postiches. Disguised in wigs, fake beards, and bourgeois outfits, they stormed banks in broad daylight, cracking open hundreds of wealthy clients’ safe deposit boxes with hammers and chisels. With a haul worth tens of millions, they outwitted police for years—until one final heist ended in deadly gunfire.
Host Alexander Lawson explores their audacious crimes, clever disguises, public fascination as modern-day Robin Hoods, and dramatic downfall in this gripping true crime episode. From…
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