6/2/2023 0 Comments Octave durhamThey do this because they know I want to survive without participating in crime. Sometimes I wake up and there’s money in my mailbox and I don’t even know who did it. And these guys know that I’m trying to get out. When the series will come, my book is going to blow up in the Netherlands, it’s going to get translated. Whether I’m going to do a series, or when I was working on the book. But I have a lot of rich friends, and I tell them what I’m doing. So now and then I’m surprised that I even have food. I never thought of it like that, I didn’t want to do that anyway because a lot of my friends lost everything. I’m just a thief, I’m not in an organised crime crew where there’s a department of laundry, lawyers, etc. But when I got older I ended up with nothing because I wasn’t into money laundry. I was rich, I was a millionaire when I was twenty-five. So I had a plan B, I didn’t have to become rich of crime. I got older and I was thinking, what can I do? And of course I thought I have a major story, about which no one knew the truth, and one day this will come out as a book, a documentary, a movie or a series. But this innocence doesn’t exist anymore. I was a little bad boy who did some major things but without hurting anyone, it had some innocence. My crimes were illegal of course, but it had charisma. I went well, but friends among me got killed, I’ve been to fifteen funerals in the past years. Sometimes, especially when I was in jail, I was thinking “I must change my life, it’s not going well”. But I got older, I got children, my oldest one is twenty-four. How would you describe yourself nowadays? The Internet knows you as the thief who stole two Van Gogh paintings. But the art lovers think different, if I go in their state of mind, I get them. Or: “If you are driving drunk and you kill someone, some people get one or two years for that. There are people that got twelve months for raping a child”. I can get that but, for example, sometimes people tell me: “You went to jail for almost four years for robbing a few paintings. They say: “It’s from the Dutch people!”, I would say: “Really? Do they go into the museum for free or do they have to pay?”īut there are art lovers that really got hurt because of losing these paintings. Because I could not understand how people could worry about two paintings that are not theirs. Now I understand both sides, first I didn’t. Some people are angry, some people think the worth of the paintings and art in general is misplaced and overrated, and therefore it doesn’t really matter. When we went to court, the DA said: “The bank must be ashamed of the way these infants robbed this bank”.Ībout the Van Gogh robbery. I was twenty-five, the other guys were about twenty-two, we were kids. It’s like a surprise egg for children, hundreds of surprise eggs. You can imagine it’s a wet dream for a burglar. ![]() Number 1 is empty, number 2 is with some diamonds, number 3 is with porn, number 4 is empty, number 5 is with two hundred thousand in cash, and so on. It was a bank in Den Helder, we went into the vault and broke over two hundred safety deposits. When I did that job, I was a millionaire. I remember a lot of burglaries, but the most impressive for me was the one that made me rich for the first time. ![]() I didn’t do it, your mother didn’t do it”. My father always said “I don’t understand how it happened, that you steal. In Staatsliedenbuurt we were into stealing bikes, car radios, the older guys did stickups, banks. If you’re in the projects in America everybody sells dope, your cousin sells dope, grandma sells dope. ![]() It’s not that you’re a nerd if you don’t do it. But because I went with other kids, it was automatic. I didn’t have to go into crime, my father was a wealthy man. All the kids in this neighbourhood where into crime. I was raised in a neighbourhood called Staatsliedenbuurt. How did you get into burglary? Which job do you remember the most?
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