Spanish police arrest 5 for 'Robin Hood' heist

Friday, August 10, 2012 | 12:06 PM

MADRID, Spain (AP) — Spanish police say they have arrested five left-wing union activists for their alleged role in a Robin Hood-style looting of a supermarket made to highlight the plight of people suffering through the country's recession.

The southern Andalusian Workers' Union made news Tuesday when a handful of its activists made off with nine trolleys full of food from a supermarket in the southern town of Ecija and left without paying. They later handed the food to poor unemployed people.

A police statement said one person was arrested during an eviction today of members of the union who were squatting on Defence Ministry land to protest its abandonment and demanding it be handed over to hard-pressed farmers.

Two others were arrested elsewhere today, and two Thursday.

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