Global InformationBlekingegade Gang information
| The Blekinge Street Gang | |
|---|---|
| Dates of operation | 1972–1989 |
| Motives | Financing of the PFLP |
| Active regions | Denmark Sweden |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism-Leninism Mao Zedong Thought |
| Major actions | Robbery, theft, forgery, murder |
| Status | Disbanded in 1989. |
| Size | 5–10 |
The Blekinge Street Gang (Danish: Blekingegadebanden) was a Danish far-left criminal group. Between December 1972 and May 1989, they committed robberies and sent the money to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. One police officer was killed by the group during exchange of gunfire during their final robbery in 1988. The 1989 discovery of a large cache of their weapons and explosives in a hideout on Blekingegade ("Blekinge Street") gave the gang its press name. The gang referred to themselves as the inner core of three organizations named KAK, KUF and KA/M-KA.[1][2][3][4]
- ^ Peter Øvig Knudsen, Blekingegadebanden 1: Den danske celle, Gyldendal 2007, ISBN 978-87-02-04369-3 (in Danish)
- ^ Peter Øvig Knudsen, Blekingegadebanden 2: Den hårde kerne, Gyldendal 2007, ISBN 978-87-02-05906-9 (in Danish). The timeline on pages 516 to 523 was especially useful
- ^ Jørgen Moos as told to Jeppe Facious and Anders Peter Mathiasen, Blekingegadebetjenten, Peoples's Press 2007, ISBN 978-87-7055-186-1 (Police memoirs in Danish)
- ^ Niels Jørgensen, Torkil Lauesen and Jan Weimann: Danish: Det Handler om Politik (It is About Politics) in Social Kritik Issue 117, Volume 21, March 2009, ISSN 0904-3535, pp 4-61, includes four pages of references.