Two men dressed as Father Christmas help up a               supermarket in Berlin this week, making off with a bag of loot all to themselves.

The seasonal criminals donned Santa Claus outfits before storming the supermarket in the German capital on Monday.

Police said in a statement: ‘They didn’t look like they were going to be passing out any presents when they came in.’

When a sales assistant asked the pair to take of their Christmas disguises, one of the Santas pulled out a gun and demanded money from her and her colleague.

Neither sales assistant was hurt, but the evil Santas managed to escape with the money.

Unfortunately gun-wielding Santas seems to be an annual occurrence at Christmas.

Last year a man dressed as Father Christmas robbed a bank in Tennessee, demanding money from a teller at gunpoint.

After the money had been handed over to the robber he explained that ‘Santa needed to pay his elves.’