With the phasing out of cash in most bank branches, there have been fewer than ten robberies per year since 2017
More cash, more robberies: Denmark, for the first time in its modern history, recorded a year without a bank robbery.
In 2000, the relatively peaceful country still recorded 221 armed robberies against banking institutions, or about two every three days.
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And in 2022, no robberies were recorded, a fact that with the phasing out of cash in most bank branches, there have been fewer than ten robberies per year since 2017, which is unheard of according to a bank historian.
“It’s just fantastic. Because it’s an absolutely huge burden on the employees involved when that happens,” said Steen Lund Olsen, vice-president of Denmark’s main banking organisation, Finansforbundet.
“We cannot measure the extent of the emotional impact (of a robbery), as long as we have not experienced it ourselves,” the banker emphasizes.
In a Scandinavian society increasingly close to going cashless, Denmark’s main bank, Danske Bank, has only two bank branches, one in Copenhagen and the other in Aarhus, the country’s second-largest city, according to Finansforbundet.
Scandinavia was the scene of one of the most famous bank robberies.
In a central square in Stockholm, Sweden in August 1973, a robber had held four bank employees hostage for days after failing to steal the store’s loot.
But after their release, none of them wanted to testify against the thief, Jan-Erik Olsson, in a wave of sympathy that psychiatrists later dubbed “the Stockholm syndrome.”
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