SEVILLE, Spain: A Robin Hood-style band of Spanish left-wing
activists openly stole cartloads of school supplies from a supermarket
Friday, promising to distribute them to needy children.
After
alerting media, more than 200 members of the Sindicato Andaluz de
Trabajadores (Andalusian Union of Workers) emerged from a Carrefour
supermarket in the southern city of Seville pushing about 10 shopping
carts brimming with exercise books, pens, felt-tips and dictionaries,
said an AFP photographer at the scene.
[...]
School materials “expropriated” this time would be given to needy
families in the next few days, the union said in a statement, describing
it as a “symbolic act for equal opportunity.”
“We want to draw
attention to the situation of the 2 million Andalusians in poverty and
the 400,000 families who receive no aid or benefit and have all members
unemployed,” it said.
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