Big heist
November 16, 2009
A man who drove away from a French bank with 11.6 millions euros ($17.2 million) in an armored car turned himself into police after two weeks on the run.
Toni Musulin, 39, surrendered to authorities in Monaco.
Musulin worked as an armored car driver, and during a stop at the Bank of France in Lyon on November 5, he drove off in the work van after two colleagues had gone back inside the bank to collect more money.
The van was later found abandoned and cleaned out. A few days later, nine million euros were recovered in a garage Musulin had rented under a fake name.
Police in Monoco said it was unclear why Musulin had turned himself in.
"He was acting strangely when he surrendered," a police official said. "We still don't understand why he did so. We don't even know if he understood that he was in Monaco."
The French news agency AFP reported that Musulin was taken by police in Monaco to the French border, where he was handed over to French authorities.
So far, there has been no word on the remaining two million euros from the heist.
mz/AFP/Reuters
Editor: Kyle James