Dressed in red suits and accompanied by masked elves, a group of Santas marched into a Montreal supermarket, loaded their bags with thousands of dollars worth of groceries and left. Now that’s a protest I can get behind! Via The Guardian:
The bandit Santas later released a statement saying the food would be distributed to the needy, and saying the Robin Hood-style stunt was intended to highlight the spiralling cost of living crisis that has pushed basic necessities increasingly out of reach for ordinary Canadians.
Roughly 40 members of a group called called Robins des Ruelles – Robins of the Alleys – participated in the robbery late on Monday.
The statement, released late on Thursday, and entitled “When hunger justifies the means”, said: “We are working more and more just to be able to buy food from supermarket chains that take advantage of inflation as a pretext to make record profits.
“There is no other way to put it: a handful of companies are holding our basic needs hostage.”
The group said the companies “continue to suffocate the population to siphon away as much money as possible”.
