Abel Pollet
The Pollet Gang (''La Bande Pollet''), also known as the Bandits of Hazebrouck (''Bandits d’Hazebrouck'') were a French criminal group active in Nord and Pas-de-Calais, as well as Belgium from 1889 until their arrests in 1906. The group was primarily led by its founder Abel Pollet (9 October 1873 – 11 January 1909), along with his brother Auguste, Canut Vromant and Théophile Deroo. The joint execution of the four leaders for murder was the first following a three-year suspension of the death penalty in France. Biography Abel Pollet was born in Vieux-Berquin on October 9, 1873. He became a smuggler who put his native gift for leadership to good use organizing his fellow traffickers into a more lucratively violent line of work. Thanks, presumably, to the syndicate’s pre-existing professional aptitude for evasion, it persisted for years and authored a quantity of robberies and murders that authorities could only guess at. (The official homicide estimation ran north of 50.) ...
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Pollet is a surname. People named Pollet include: * Abel Pollet (1873–1909), French gangster and murderer * David Pollet (born 1988), Belgian footballer * Eugène Pollet (1886–?), French gymnast * Francis Pollet (born 1964) French general officer * Gerry Pollet (born 1958), American lawyer and politician * Howie Pollet (1921–1974), American baseball player * Jacques Pollet (1922–1997), French automobile racer * Jean-Daniel Pollet (1936–2004), French film director and screenwriter * Joseph Pollet (1897–1979), American painter * Lisette Pollet (born 1968), French politician * Ludovic Pollet (born 1970), French former footballer and current coach * Marianne Ehrenström (1773–1867), née Pollet, Swedish artist {{surname ...
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