Camera Silens was a French punk band from

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active between 1981 and 1988. Their singer and bassist, Gilles Bertin took part in a bank robbery in

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on 27 April 1988, where nearly 12 million

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s were stolen. Gilles Bertin went on the run for 28 years before handing himself in to police.

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