The Blekinge Street Gang: Denmark's Hidden Terror Cell
How idealists turned bank robbers funded Palestinian terrorism for a decade
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Quick Facts
Quick Facts
The Blekinge Street Gang: Denmark's Hidden Terror Cell
A group of Danish far-left activists systematically robbed banks, post offices and committed fraud for over a decade without detection. The money never funded luxury or escape, but flowed directly to the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). When Denmark's intelligence service PET finally dismantled the Blekinge Street Gang in 1989, the damage was already done: a police officer was dead, millions had been sent to the Middle East, and PET faced the most catastrophic intelligence failure in Danish history.
The Double Life on Blekinge Street
From the late 1960s until 1989, members of the Blekinge Street Gang lived seemingly normal lives. They held jobs, raised families and maintained addresses in Copenhagen—many living in or around Blekinge Street in the Nørrebro district. But when darkness fell, they transformed into something entirely different: disciplined robbers operating with military precision.
The gang's methods were professional. They planned meticulously, used disguises, stolen cars and false identities. Money from their crimes never disappeared into private luxury. Instead, millions of kroner were channeled through secret networks to the PFLP, a Marxist-Leninist Palestinian organization based in the Middle East.
