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.

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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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