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Where have all of Denmark’s bank robbers gone?

6 January 2023

5:00 PM

6 January 2023

5:00 PM

Asked why he robbed banks for a living, the legendary American bank robber Willie Sutton allegedly replied, ‘because that’s where the money is’. Not any more, it isn’t.

In Denmark, where only twenty of the country’s 740 bank branches still hold cash in their vaults, 2022 was the first year without a bank robbery.

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