The OAS staged the largest bank heist in history to that date in Oran.
Evidence
On the 22nd the O.A.S. — with total impunity, and apparently aided by the bank clerks — pulled off the biggest bank raid in history to date, getting away with 2,200 million francs (about $4,700,000 or nearly £1,000,000) from the Banque d’Algérie in the centre of Oran. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1606
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the broader pattern of settler institutions colluding with the OAS against the departing French state. — connects to: The GPRA regarded 1962 as the war’s most dangerous phase due to the OAS.; Defeated OAS destroyed Algeria’s French-built infrastructure and institutions