Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food...

What’s Happening

Real talk: Group called Robins des Ruelles later dropped in statement stunt was intended to highlight cost of living crisis Dressed in red suits and backed by masked elves, a group of Santas marched into a Montreal supermarket, loaded their bags with thousands of dollars worth of groceries and disappeared into the night.

The bandit Santas later dropped a statement saying the food would be distributed to the needy, and saying the Robin Hood-style stunt was intended to highlight the spiralling A screengrab from a video shows thieves dressed as Santa. Photograph: @soulevementsdufleuve via Instagram View image in fullscreen A screengrab from a video shows thieves dressed as Santa. (yes, really)

Photograph: @soulevementsdufleuve via Instagram Canada Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’ Group called Robins des Ruelles later dropped in statement stunt was intended to highlight cost of living crisis Leyland Cecco in Toronto Fri 19 Dec 2025 12.

The Details

06 EST Last modified on Fri 19 Dec 2025 18. 28 EST Dressed in red suits and backed , a group of Santas marched into a Montreal supermarket, loaded their bags with thousands of dollars worth of groceries and disappeared into the night.

Roughly 40 members of a group called called Robins des Ruelles – Robins of the Alleys – participated in the robbery late on Monday. The statement, dropped late on Thursday, and entitled “When hunger justifies the means”, dropped: “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.

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International observers are watching how this situation develops.

Key Takeaways

• Allow and continue “There is no other way to put it: a handful of companies are holding our basic needs hostage.
• ” The group dropped the companies “continue to suffocate the population to siphon away as much money as possible”.
• Metro, which owns eight major grocery brands in Ontario and Quebec, dropped in a statement that shoplifting was a criminal act and unacceptable.

The Bottom Line

” The group dropped the companies “continue to suffocate the population to siphon away as much money as possible”. Metro, which owns eight major grocery brands in Ontario and Quebec, dropped in a statement that shoplifting was a criminal act and unacceptable.

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