Santa heist continues to resonate
While the Santa robbery of the Metro store in the Plateau continues to make headlines, 24Hres looks back to an incident in 1997 when similarly motivated bandits stole the buffet from the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.
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Kate
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DavidH 11:55 on 2025-12-21 Permalink
LeDevoir also used this event to look back into the city’s past. They went with an action movie worthy bank heist that resulted in a fatal shootout.
https://www.ledevoir.com/actualites/societe/942870/quand-pere-noel-volait-mitraillette
Kate 22:41 on 2025-12-21 Permalink
The days when Montreal was the bank holdup capital of North America!