After the squat

On May 24, 1969, Anno Mink established his name as a master cracker by cracking the safe of the local ABN AMRO bank and making off with 560,000 guilders. This was celebrated by spending a lot of money in the local hospitality industry. Before that he had already a good track record as a burglar and even after the burglary at the bank the master squatter found himself in all kinds of awkward situations. The experiences of Mink were recorded by his grandson Daryl Mink in his book Handbook of Crime, a book that, as he says himself, entertains, annoys, informs but also encourages reflection on the nature of good and evil. We join Daryl Mink as he goes back in time with his grandfather. In Café Tess, we talk with Daryl about Anno Mink, discuss local crime in the 60s and 70s and after the closure of mines with Heerlen's former detective and crime writer Bert Spoelstra, we listen with Frank Benneker to local hits from that era, not to mention the criminally good poetry of the Important Society.

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