Editing Jules Bonnot (section)

== The Bonnot Gang ==
[[File:Alcuni membri della Banda Bonnot.jpg|thumb|Members of the Bonnot Gang]]
Upon returning to Paris, Bonnot lacked money as most of the stolen items remained in Lyon. Bonnot felt he had no other choice but to continue his life of crime because of his standing in society and the warrants for his arrest. Thus, he joined a group of anarchists that were known to write issues of ''[[L'Anarchie]]''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Loadenthal |first=Michael |title=The politics of attack: communiqués and insurrectionary violence |date=2017 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-1-5261-1446-4 |series=Contemporary anarchist studies |location=Manchester}}</ref> Together with other local anarchists, they formed "The Bonnot Gang," an act of rebellion against their society. The group consisted of Edouard Carouy, André Soudy, Stephen Monier, René Valet, Raymond Callemin, Octave Garnier, and others, all whom were local anarchists of French and Belgian descent.<ref name=":2" /> Their common denominator was their hatred of bourgeois society and the warrants for their incarceration.<ref>{{Citation |last=Meltzer |first=Albert |title=The Truth about the Bonnot Gang |date=1966 |url=https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/albert-meltzer-the-truth-about-the-bonnot-gang}}</ref>

When Bonnot's frustration with capitalistic society grew to a breaking point, he decided that bank robberies were the most suitable expression of the sentiments of the Illegalists. The Bonnot Gang began by robbing a rare luxury car, a [[Delaunay-Belleville]], to serve as the getaway vehicle for their crimes.<ref name=":0" /> This theft, in particular, was a triumph for Bonnot because it proved to him that the bourgeois were vulnerable to their exploits. The gang then built up an arsenal of weapons and a collection of hiding spots from the police.<ref name=":1" /> In late December 1911, the gang robbed and shot a bank messenger, stealing five thousand francs and bonds worth upwards of one hundred thousand francs. With this crime, several newspapers put up notices of a reward for the capture of the members of "The Bonnot Gang," and they were notorious among the general public of Paris as car bandits, an unprecedented new form of crime as motor vehicles had not been fully integrated into society at that point. This crime became known as one of the first robberies utilizing a motor vehicle to leave the crime scene.<ref name=":0" /> In light of their attacks against the capitalist society, the gang was able to garner support from some of the general public that sympathized with their hatred of the bourgeois. Bonnot never considered himself as the leader of the gang because each member played a crucial role in each crime; however, because of his past notoriety and skills with motor vehicles, Bonnot was stamped as the face of the group.<ref name=":1" />