BRIDGET NIELSON, HELLERUP, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK. One of my favourite hobbies is article writing about old Danish outlaws. Crime does not pay. Here is an example of one of my authentic story about Danish outlaws: First it is to be mentioned: Danish outlaws have never been as tough as the outlaws in the USA. Maybe the reason is that Danish law does not have so hard punitive measures as in the USA. For instance: Denmark does not have death penalty. Life sentence is 16 years, and the prisoner is paroled after 8 years. Danish police is not as heavily armed as the police in other countries. They were bankrobbers and were called "Bonnie and Clyde of Denmark". It was in the year 1968. The married couple Mouridsen robbed a bank in a very special way: Frank Mouridsen called the bank-manager Heldam in "Copenhagens Handelsbank" at Frederikssundsvej: He said: "I am a hostage for a gang, who will kill me, if you don't put half a million Danish kroner in a bag and send the youngest employee out in the street. The gang has placed a bomb in your home so your family might get killed. In a window in the bank stands a bottle of nitroglycerine. If you look at the building on the other side of the street, you can see a man with a rifle. When he hits the bottle the bank will blow up". The manager did as he was told. The youngest employee walked out in the street, where a man took the bag from her and disappeared. The situation got chaotic. The street, Frederikssundsvej, was closed because of the danger of explosion. The police came and discovered that "the rifle" was a black broom-stick and a balloon with a sign and the text: "Proof of air-pollution no. 7788. Be careful". The bottle in the bank with nitroglycerine was a bottle of water. There was no bomb in the bank-manager's home. Witnesses had seen the man who took the money-bag, and they told it was an old man. Mouridsen had the age of 46. Earlier that day other witnesses had seen a younger woman, standing at the window in the bank where the bottle with nitroglycerine was found. Witnesses had also seen the couple drive off in a red car. Frank Mouridsen and his wife were not captured until 3 years after the bank robbery. The couple lived in Järenäs in Sweden where they had a stud farm of horses. At a time they sold the horses and cheated the investors for the mortgage. They were reported to Interpol, and flew to Gran Canaria and Gambia. Later on in 1971 they lived in Ruds Vedby, near the town Slagelse in Denmark. They arranged another haul against the manager Viggo Rasmussen of The Tuborg Brewery in Copenhagen. Frank Mouridsen succeded in getting in Rasmussen's car and threatened him with a gun. Mouridsen told him the lie that he came from Al Fatah and that he wanted 250.000 dollars. He told the manager that the terror-group would blow up the brewery and the home of the manager. The hostage Rasmussen arranged for one of his employees, Flemming Ralk, to bring the required money to Mouridsen. He drove off in Rasmussen's car. Afterwards it was exposed that Mouridsen bluffed, there was no terror-group. Mouridsen then met with his wife and they travelled to Jutland. They settled the old debt to a lawyer in Sweden and the search of Interpol was stopped. But the lawyer and a police-officer recognized the description of Mrs. Mouridsen from the earlier bank-robbery and then the couple was arrested. The Mouridsens confessed their crime. Frank Mouridsen got a prison sentence of 12 years and his wife got 6 years. Old Danish crime cases is interesting info.
