Emilio Mayorga Award-winning French documentary distributor Java Films has grabbed world rights to Anna Giralt’s “Robin Bank,” a doc competition entry at this year’s Malaga festival.Produced by Jorge Caballero at Catalan-Colombian Gusano Films, Germany’s Indie Film and Catalan pubcaster TVC, in partnership with Arte France – La Lucarne, “Robin Bank” tells the story of Catalan activist Enric Durán who, between 2005 and 2008, managed to take out €500,000 ($550,000) in loans from 39 different banks which he never reimbursed, instead using the money to fund social projects.Imprisoned for two months, Durán was released on bail, and while he awaited trial, fled the country, declaring himself a fugitive. The film received warm a welcome from audiences at its recent world premiere at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival.‘‘ ‘Robin Bank’ is a unique story that really speaks to our times.
Evil carer pretended to be elderly man's daughter and left him with just four PENCE in bank after raiding him for thousands
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The family of an elderly man who had £30,000 stolen by a scheming carer said he was so devastated that he 'gave up living' after her vile crimes were revealed.
Michelle Summerhill, from Wythenshawe, was secretly withdrawing cash from Marcel Brown's bank accounts while he paid her to act as a carer, helping with cleaning and doing his shopping. One bank account had a balance of just four pence after Summerhill had raided it.
Summerhill, 55, even posed as Mr Brown's daughter to cash in his £20,000 premium bonds. She was left £10,000 in his will after he died aged 88, such was the regard he had for her.
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Efforts were made to change his will after her deception was uncovered, but it was too late and she received the sum.
Mr Brown, who was originally born in France and lived alone in Wythenshawe, didn't have children of his own but he treated Summerhill like his own daughter. Her betrayal left him devastated and embarrassed, his family say.
"He gave up living," Mr Brown's stepson Michael Deasey told the M.E.N, after Summerhill was jailed for 10 months for theft.
"He died within 12 months. He just couldn't believe what she had done, after what he had done for her."
She claimed that her obsessive compulsive disorder was linked to her crimes, and that she couldn't stop spending. But a report on her mental health stated she was not suffering from a disorder that prevented her from changing her ways.
"In effect that means that you could have stopped what you were doing," Judge Nicholas Dean QC told Summerhill.
"Your mental health difficulties, which I accept exist, were not stopping you from your continued course of theft.
"Your theft
'And Just Like That' Renewed for Season 2 on HBO Max
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