Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers – Gabriel Kuhn

The Blekingegade Group were members of a communist organisation who lived modest lives. Over a period of almost two decades they sent millions of dollars acquired in spectacular heists to Third World liberation movements, in particular the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Turning Money into Rebellion covers the group’s fascinating journey from the 1960s until seven were jailed in 1991. Blekingegade is a quiet Copenhagen street. It is also where, in May 1989, the police discovered an apartment that had served Denmark’s most notorious twentieth-century bank robbers as a hideaway for years. The Blekingegade Group members belonged to a communist organization and lived modest lives in the Danish capital. Over a period of almost two decades, they sent millions of dollars acquired in spectacular heists to Third World liberation movements, in particular the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In May 1991, seven of them were convicted and went to prison.