Anarchist Robin Hoods

Police are after a group of people who steal from expensive supermarkets to give food to the poor. But they aren't after the people who steal from the poor to give money to the rich.

Anarchist Robin Hoodism is on the rise. Across the globe, groups are springing up to deal with social injustice using direct action.

In Canada, a coalition against poverty (which includes many others, not just anarchists) publicize their shoplifting and publish political statements as to why they do this and how it is justified.

The following article appeared in the Scotsman:(edited)

German 'Robin Hoods' give poor a taste of the high life
ALLAN HALL
IN BERLIN
A GANG of anarchist Robin Hood-style thieves, who dress as superheroes and steal expensive food from exclusive restaurants and delicatessens to give to the poor, are being hunted by police in the German city of Hamburg.

The gang members seemingly take delight in injecting humour into their raids, which rely on sheer numbers and the confusion caused by their presence. After they plundered Kobe beef fillets, champagne and smoked salmon from a gourmet store on the exclusive Elbastrasse, they presented the cashier with a bouquet of flowers before making their getaway.
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Carsten Sievers, the manager of a luxury supermarket in the wealthy Blankenese area of Hamburg, recently watched the robbers run off with trolleys full of expensive foodstuffs, including Kobe beef which, at more than £100 a pound, is always on their illicit shopping list.

In another recent swoop, the gang emptied a groaning buffet table in a top restaurant into sacks, while one of their number held up a sign saying. "The fat years are over" - the title of a hit film currently doing the rounds in Germany.

In internet statements, the gang have made a point of saying their booty is distributed to Hartz IV recipients - the poorest of Germany's long-term unemployed. The benefit is named after the disgraced Volkswagen personnel director Peter Hartz who, before he lost his job with the car-maker in a prostitutes-and-bribes scandal, devised the new means-testing which is loathed and derided by society's most economically challenged.
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