3 years for Robin Hood bank robber
Robin Hood bullion robber Tony Musulin may face a new trial as prosecutors appealed against his three-year jail term
BULLION van robber Tony Musulin has been jailed for three years after being found guilty of stealing €11.6million.
Musulin, who had been called the French Robin Hood, told the court he had hijacked his own Loomis security van because he was tired of not being able to afford a holiday on his poor pay.
The prosecution in Lyon has lodged an appeal against the sentence.
Most of the money was recovered two days after the robbery from a lock-up rented by Musulin and then, after 10 days on the run, he handed himself in to police in Monaco.
Mystery still surrounds the €2.5m that was never recovered and he said there was no more money and he had not kept any of it. However, police said he first claimed to them he had left the money in the van as he could not get it into his car.
It is thought he hid the money in Italy in his 10 days free.
Musulin became a hero in France in the days after the robbery as it came in the middle of the banking crisis and people saw him hitting at banking bosses.
He and his two colleagues had loaded the €11.6m into their van from the Lyon branch of the Bank of France. Musulin drove off with the money as his two co-workers went into the next bank on their run.
