The lifeless man was taken to Rigshospitalet, where he was pronounced dead.
The public prosecutor does not say what the cause of death was.
When people die in police custody, the case must be investigated by the DUP, which makes a statement based on the investigation. That statement is then handed over to the Public Prosecutor in Copenhagen or Viborg, who makes a decision in the case.
It is the public prosecutor who decides whether to prosecute – that is, to prosecute in court – against someone.
In the case from Copenhagen, the Public Prosecutor has decided that the investigation in the case must be stopped. This can happen when there is no “basis for continuing an ongoing investigation”, as stated in the Code of Judicial Procedure.
From this it can be deduced that no charges have been brought against anyone in the case. In that case, a decision should have been made under another provision if one wanted to drop the case.
An indictment is raised when the police – or in this case the DUP – become so specific in their suspicion of a particular person that actual investigative steps are initiated.
But when, in the prosecution’s opinion, there is no basis for raising an indictment, the case can be concluded with the suspension of the investigation, as has happened in the case from Copenhagen.
The decision to suspend the investigation has, incidentally, been a trip past the Attorney General. Initially, the Public Prosecutor in Copenhagen’s decision in the case was appealed.
The Attorney General stated in August that the Public Prosecutor’s decision had been upheld, but did not state at the time what the decision was.
Ritzau therefore approached the Public Prosecutor on 5 August, who chose to treat the inquiry as a request for access to documents. On 19 August, the Public Prosecutor prepared a reply to the Ritzau, but by mistake the reply was never sent.
The public prosecutor has apologized for the error.
Source: The Nordic Page