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In fact, French media has been referring to the main suspects as the Grandpa Robbers, due to their advanced ages — the eldest defendant is 78.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2025

They also learned that the body belonged to George Leslie, King of the Bank Robbers.

From Slate • Dec. 28, 2023

“A Cops and Robbers Story” explores Pegues’s split loyalties, but the talking head interviews tend to isolate the characters whose very intimacy with each other is the subject of the film.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2022

Popular perception of organised crime in Britain is anchored in fictional portrayals such as The Godfather or historic villains like the Great Train Robbers – and there was once some truth to these legends.

From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2018

Goethe was at that time prejudiced against Schiller, we must remember, partly from what he considered the outrages of the Robbers, partly because of the philosophy of Kant.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David