Fifteen Shots on Amager: The Night Palle Sørensen Killed Four Danish Police Officers
Just after 3:40 a.m. on 18 September 1965, a white Simca full of stolen goods is pulled over on Amager. Denmark’s police are still largely unarmed. Ten minutes later, four young officers are dead. Fifteen shots. Twelve hits.
Palle Sørensen was a career burglar who did not want another prison sentence. What he did that night ended four lives — Gert Søndergaard Harkjær, Henning Skov Hansen, Elmer Gert Jeppesen, and Aksel Dybdahl Andersen — and forced Denmark to arm its police.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the crime, the man, the sentence that lasted more than 32 years, and why this case still…
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