Under the Streets of Nice: The Bank Heist of the Century

One hot Monday morning in 1976, Albert Spaggiari had engineered the European crime of the century. A bank president in Nice, France found his vault welded shut-from the inside-with a note left behind that read, "Without guns, without violence, without hate." Spaggiari and his gang of 20 men had dug a 25-foot tunnel from the city's sewer system into the bank, where they spent a weekend cooking meals, drinking wine, and clearing millions of dollars in gold, jewelry, gems, and cash. Here is th...