Tag: Ritzau
Heating: The public is encouraged to ease up on their water consumption
In an SMS and message sent out via e-Boks on Thursday, the capital area’s utility company, HOFOR, calls on companies and customers to reduce their water consumption. “We use far too much water in the heat. If there is to be enough for everyone, we must use less,” writes HOFOR. “Help us as much as…
Youth party organisation: High-profile Member of Parliament is far from reality
Want to restore trust Stephensen himself has commented on Sunday’s revelations about his message to the 19-year-old woman, in which he wrote that she “is beautiful with the most delicious body”. In an email to the Ritzau news agency, Stephensen apologized to the party and the 19-year-old woman. He also emphasized that his political ambitions…
Danes don’t care about crime
Just 9 percent of Danes are seriously worried about being personally exposed to crime, Ritzau reports. The figure comes from a study carried out by the Ministry of Justice, the Police and the Crime Prevention Council in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen. This is the lowest level of fear of crime since records began.…
The government’s conviction about the new bill will make it possible for companies to recruit foreign labor more easily
A new government proposal to make it easier for Danish companies to recruit foreign labor was presented to the Danish Parliament on Tuesday. Economy Minister Troels Lund Poulsen is optimistic that the new law will give the country the boost it needs to overcome what is expected to be a difficult year – conversely at…
The government’s conviction about the new bill will make it possible for companies to recruit foreign labor more easily
A new government proposal to make it easier for Danish companies to recruit foreign labor was presented to the Danish Parliament on Tuesday. Economy Minister Troels Lund Poulsen is optimistic that the new law will give the country the boost it needs to overcome what is expected to be a difficult year – conversely at…
Right now: Announcement of a new government is expected in Denmark
Now it is clear with a new government in Denmark. The Danish Social Democracy is forming a government with the bourgeois Liberals and Moderates, Mette Frederiksen says according to Ritzau. Hear Samuel Larsson, Sveriges Radio’s Denmark correspondent in Ekot’s live broadcast.
Intentional actions caused the Nord Stream gas leak, says the Danish Prime Minister
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesday that leaks discovered in Nord Stream’s gas pipelines were apparently caused by deliberate actions and could not have been the result of accidents. “It is now the authorities’ clear assessment that these are intentional actions. It was not an accident,” says Mette Frederiksen to journalists. “There is…
Over the top? Denmark will secure 22 million COVID-19 vaccines by 2022
Waste of taxpayers’ money?So far in 2022, only about one million doses have been used in Denmark, far from the 22 million doses that are soon on the way. “The first thing that comes to my mind is that it is a bad business and a very unsatisfactory use of taxpayers’ funds,” says Jes Søgaard,…
Denmark to outsource interns
The Ministers of Justice of Denmark and Kosovo have signed a treaty in which Copenhagen rents 300 prison cells from Pristina Denmark will send foreign nationals convicted in the country to serve their sentences in a Kosovo prison, the countries’ respective justice ministers agreed on Wednesday. Should both sides’ parliament give the green light to…
Danes mourn the deletion of 3,581 words from their dictionary
According to the Danish Language Board, around 3,581 words were removed from the Danish Spelling Dictionary between 1986 and 2012. The media industry magazine Journalisten published a list of the deleted words after Søren Espersen from the Danish People’s Party raised concerns about Minister of Culture Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen. While it is common practice for the…
1st LD Writethru: Two missing after cargo ship capsized off the Swedish coast
STOCKHOLM, December 13 (Xinhua) – Two crew members were missing and a rescue operation was launched after a cargo ship capsized in the Baltic Sea off the south coast of Sweden on Monday. The accident occurred at 03:30 local time (0230 GMT) between the Swedish city of Ystad and the Danish island of Bornholm under…
Truck overturns by ferry 150 meters from Hvalpsund
Tuesday morning, a truck was rolled by a ferry and down into the Limfjord. It writes Ekstra Bladet. This is the Hvalpsund-Sundsøre ferry, which sails between Hvalpsund and Sundsøre. It is also called Mary. No one was injured. To Ritzau, the North Jutland Emergency Management Agency says that the truck overturned in the water about…
OVERVIEW: Brothers hope for milder district court verdict in murder case
Get an overview of the case here from the discovery of the deceased to the first day of the appeal: * On the night of 23 June 2020, 28-year-old Phillip Mbuji Johansen will be beaten at a shelter site in Nordskoven near Rønne on Bornholm. Among other things, he is beaten with a spruce raft…
OVERVIEW: Free Greens’ way to the ballot paper
* On 16 December 2019, Uffe Elbæk announces that he will leave his post as political leader of the Alternative. * On 1 February 2020, Josephine Fock will be elected as the new political leader, even though the Alternative’s then parliamentary group wanted Rasmus Nordqvist as Elbæk’s successor. * On 9 March 2020, four out…
Supporting parties will have cleaned up after PFOS pollution in the Armed Forces
Since 2016, the Ministry of Defence’s Property Agency has followed how pollution from fire foam at three air stations has spread to a river, a stream, a lake, groundwater and nature. Avisen Danmark and Radio4 have described this. Nevertheless, according to the two media, the agency has done nothing over the years to stop the…
Red block drops to below 50 percent in new poll
For the first time since August 2018, the Red Block receives less than 50 percent of the votes in a poll by Voxmeter for Ritzau.
FACTS: Niels from Aars created diplomatic crisis with India
* Subsequently, Niels Holck and his collaborators were forced to land in India, where everyone except Niels Holck was sentenced to life in prison. * In 1996, Niels Holck manages to escape to Denmark. * Following a change in the law on top of the terrorist attack on 11 September, it became possible for Denmark…
Brewery retains deals after two shitstorms
The beer labels were noticed on social media. In a post on his Facebook page, Thisted Bryghus wrote on Saturday that some customers reacted and were angry. – For that we can only lie flat and regret. – Had we known that this case would give us so many scratches in the paint, we would…
Brewery will no longer make beer labels for parties
The decision to stop making beer labels for parties follows after, according to the brewery, it was met with skepticism that the brewery has made labels for the party Nye Borgerlige. – We can well understand that some of our highly valued customers are reacting right now and that some are angry. – For that…
Piracy and kidnappings in the Gulf of Guinea
* A total of 130 kidnappings were recorded, which is the highest number the International Maritime Bureau has ever seen in the area. That is an increase from 121 in 2019 and 78 in 2018 according to the agency’s figures. * In addition, there are a large number of incidents where ships have been attacked…
Elderly woman loses life after traffic accident in Nuuk
An elderly woman lost her life in the capital of Greenland, Nuuk, on Saturday night, after she was hit in the city on Friday night. This is confirmed by the Greenland Police to the media Sermitsiaq.AG. – The woman died of her injuries during the night. We are dealing with the tragic accident, says duty…
New washing machine? Here are five tips before buying
A washing machine that costs 8000 one week can potentially cost 5000 the next, and then 8000 again the following week. – So it pays to look after yourself, says Gitte Sørensen, who is project manager at the Consumer Council Think, where she has been responsible for a test of washing machines. Gitte Sørensen recommends…
Make the perfect feed for garden birds
Therefore, advice number one is that you should be in control of the hygiene around the feeding area. Lay the feed at a distance so that the birds eat at a distance. And alcohol or pour over the platform with boiling water once in a while. – A species that is greenery has declined in…
Understand the needs of the teenager and avoid conflict
This is the opinion of family therapist Fie Hørby, who has written the book “About teenagers – for parents”. Many conflicts with the teenager come from a desire for greater independence. The first sign that this process has started is when the teenager moves into his room at the age of 12, the family therapist…
Online consultations get more men to seek medical attention
A new, digital health scheme from Danica Pension has made men seek help from doctors and psychologists, writes Politiken. Customers who have health insurance with Danica have easily been able to contact doctors, psychologists and dietitians online. In the first nine months of the year, this has led to more than 10,000 consultations. Men account…
Rapporteur: Indecent if money does not help Greenlandic children
– The vast majority of the help has gone to building up the National Board of Health and Welfare with 60-80 employees and to pay Danish municipalities to line up with four social workers to remedy municipal case processing, she says to the media Sermitsiaq. AG. It arouses resentment in Søren Espersen, who is the…
Think Tank will remove SU for graduates
The future of the SU has regularly been up for debate. Business organizations and often blue politicians have regularly discussed whether it should be cut or whether part of the support could be converted into loans. Now there is renewed support for that idea. The think tank Arbejderbevægelsens Erhvervsråd (AE) proposes in Dagbladet Børsen that…
Municipalities are criticized for failing to monitor the Armed Forces’ pollution
The three municipalities that have the environmental supervision of PFAS pollution at the Armed Forces’ air stations have failed. This is the opinion of environmental rapporteurs for the Liberal Party, the Danish People’s Party and the Unity List. It writes Avisen Danmark and Radio4. – It clearly testifies that the municipalities have not fulfilled their…
Think tank will convert SU on master’s programs to loans
According to the think tank Arbejderbevægelsens Erhvervsråd (AE-rådet), students in master’s programs must not have SU in the same way as today. It writes Børsen. – What we are proposing is that the SU be converted to master’s programs for loans. – It can be an interest-free loan, and then you can use the money…
Children in Greenland fail despite Danish millions
In the same year, the Folketing allocated DKK 80 million to children in Greenland. Now the effort was to be strengthened together with 16 recommendations prepared by the Greenlandic government, Naalakkersuisut, and the Danish government. But the hardest hit children have not benefited from the money, says Martha Lund Olsen, director of children and family…
The number of people infected with the RS virus has halved – but still high
Since week 36, the number of cases of infection has decreased week by week. Nevertheless, the figure is still at a high level. That’s what Ramona Trebbien, section manager and senior researcher at SSI, says. – It is still about twice as many as we see in a peak week in a normal season, she…
Companies start vaccinations against influenza ahead of time
There is an extraordinary demand this year for being vaccinated against influenza. Therefore, the Danish Health and Medicines Authority has recommended that until 22 October, only persons in the risk group and health personnel will be vaccinated. Despite this, 27,000 people outside those groups have already been vaccinated – including employees from the Danish Business…
3000 elderly people got calls from scammers
Copenhagen Police have called the case “Sweet Talk”, ie flattering speech. Here, citizens – mainly aged from about 70 to 90 years – across the country have been called up by people who introduced themselves as employees of Tax. And the talk must have seemed convincing. In any case, more than 60 people handed over…
Big case is called Sweet Talk – 3000 got calls from scammers
The talk must have seemed convincing. In any case, more than 60 people handed over their NemID information, and immediately after, the fake taxpayers took action. Their agenda was simple: to steal citizens’ money. They were quickly transferred to other accounts. In sober language, each case is described in a 265-page indictment that Ritzau has…
Degn wrote history with many years in the Folketing
– I am very happy to have lived a modern woman’s life with a career and a rich family life, where I both had to be political on the marks and at the same time be there for my children, Helle Degn said in 2016 to Ritzau. When she entered the Folketing, she already had…
22-year-old woman hit by motorist died a week after accident
An investigation and a legal aftermath are now awaiting, the South and Southern Jutland Police inform. – We can not provide further information, but an investigation is underway. Then comes a legal aftermath, says Helle Lundberg, communications adviser at the police, to JydskeVestkysten. The accident happened on the morning of October 11th. The woman came…
Drug factory near Odder leads to demands for extraordinarily long punishment
On a property near Odder, two middle-aged men must have produced a total of 430 kilos of amphetamine. This is the claim in a criminal case, which the Court in Aarhus will deal with from March next year. The two men were in the process of producing over 200 kilos of amphetamine when they were…
Radicals change course: Want women’s quotas in business
Gender equality is far too slow in business, and therefore quotas must be introduced for the number of women on boards. This is how it sounds from the Radicals, who have changed their position in the area. It writes Berlingske. – We can not wait for gender equality, and therefore we have to act politically,…
Parties putt with mayoral ambitions
After the most recent local elections in 2017, the Social Democrats won 47 mayoral posts and thus the most. The Social Democrats’ party secretary, Lasse Ryberg, states that the governing party won an “extraordinarily good election” in 2017. – We went forward, and we got not least many new mayors. This is probably not the…
Slow mobile? How to give it new life
– If it is lethargic and tired and slow, it is often related to the battery, explains John G. Pedersen, who is a mobile expert at the specialist media MereMobil.dk. It is not always enough to delete unused apps and files, which is otherwise the obvious place to start. A worn battery can affect the…
Make potent fertilizer of coffee and egg trays
This is what Kamilla Høy, who is a botanical consultant in the garden center chain Plantorama, says. – Coffee grounds contain several nutrients and minerals that are good for plants. But it must be mixed with the soil in which the plant grows. Because if it just lies on top, it can risk mold and…
This is how you should dress for races in the fall
He suggests three layers on the upper body. First an absorbent sweatshirt and then a dri-fit T-shirt. Then you finish with a light wind jacket, which keeps you warm. – There is a need for something other than the classic T-shirt in cotton, which is still popular with many. It cannot transport the sweat away,…
Parties: The Mink Commission must investigate the police action card
– There is agreement among all parties to expand the terms of reference in the Mink Commission, which must now look at action cards to get every stone turned, says Karsten Lauritzen to the media. The Unity List’s member of the committee, Peder Hvelplund, confirms the information to Ritzau. The Committee of Inquiry is a…
3.G student placed in artificial coma after falling from window on study trip
An 18-year-old student from Helsingør Gymnasium has been placed in an artificial coma after being involved in a fall accident. It happened during a study trip to the French region of Brittany. Helsingør Dagblad wrote on Thursday evening that the student had fallen from a roof after he had been out eating with some of…
Meadow birds are challenged and birds of prey are improving
The study is the new red list for European birds. Red lists are lists of which animal species are endangered and to what extent. 35 bird species found in Denmark are on the list. – We are in a natural crisis, where thousands of animal, plant and fungal species are in danger of extinction. This…
Climate Council: Battery trucks are the way forward
– Although there is uncertainty about the future technology development for the long trips, there are many factors that point in the direction of batteries, the council writes. The Climate Council recommends that the government plan for battery trucks to account for a significant part of truck transport and therefore also support the expansion of…
New school should give prisons more hands
This was stated by the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday. – The Prison and Probation Service is under incredible pressure at the moment. We are simply missing hands, says Minister of Justice Nick Hækkerup (S) to Ritzau. Figures from the Danish Prison and Probation Service show that the number of full-time prison officers has fallen…
Children have to wait with legal gender reassignment
The bill that was supposed to pave the way for the possibility is not among those planned for the coming parliamentary year. – In light of the Danish Council of Ethics’ deliberations to the Parliament’s Gender Equality Committee on this issue in particular, the Government has found it necessary to consider further, reads a written…
Minister announces proposal for legal gender reassignment
It will be presented at the next parliamentary session. The bill that was to pave the way for the possibility was otherwise not among those planned for the coming parliamentary year. In a written response from the Ministry of the Interior to Jyllands-Posten, it was stated that it was necessary for the government to think…
Supporting parties suspect the government of U-turn on gender reassignment
The government came up with a proposal more than a year ago, which was that children should be allowed to change gender in the CPR register from boy to girl or vice versa. Regardless of age. Today you have to be 18 years old to get a legal gender reassignment. The Radicals’ equality rapporteur, Samira…
Vaccine anger is suddenly the theme of Frederiksen in India
Because when questions were asked from the floor, the Prime Minister was surprisingly critical of how Denmark and the western world took care of themselves only when the world’s vaccines against covid-19 were to be distributed. And the Danish Prime Minister was asked how to praise joint responsibility and cooperation in one area, and then…
The government is looking towards Nybyggerifonden for money for housing
Minister of Housing Kaare Dybvad Bek (S) is now giving an indication of where the money for the government’s big plan for more public housing should come from. In connection with the opening of the Folketing, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) said that the government will build 22,000 public housing in the country’s four largest…
The Dane with the international eye
He was born in Nykøbing Falster during World War II and in 1960 became a student from Kalundborg Gymnasium. In the following years, Tom Høyem studied theology in Aarhus, Copenhagen and Bergen, before he from 1964 began a career – with interruptions – as a teacher of Danish and religion at Sankt Jørgens Gymnasium in…
Charge: 33-year-old shared photos of dying woman
In any case, the prosecution believes so, and on Friday next week the man will be charged at the Court in Esbjerg for failing to help the woman. The woman passed away at a time between 04.00 and 09.08 on 2 February 2020. Not only did he fail to help her, but according to the…
Used furniture hits – but the table catches
The first piece of advice from Julie Schoen, who is the DBA’s spokesperson, is to go for quality. On the one hand, it gives a confidence that the furniture lasts longer, and then it can give the home something extra if the well-known brands get some patina. – Some furniture may even increase in value.…
Tired? You can spread your sleep over the day
Nor does it matter whether it is coherent or broken. This is what sleep researcher Birgitte Rahbek Kornum, Ph.D. and Associate Professor at the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen. – You can easily distribute your sleep. You just have to be aware that you can not sleep less in a day just…
Get your lawn intact through the winter
– For some it is okay with weeds and brown spots. But if you want a lawn without weeds and dead spots after the winter, it requires effort, she says. The first step is to sow with grass seeds in early fall. That way, there will be a greater chance that the right grasses are…
Investigation criticizes the National Police’s action card in the mink case
A recently published legal study of the National Police’s use of an action card in the mink case expresses criticism of the National Police in relation to their preparation. The investigation shows that the preparation of them “has not in itself been subject to any special or formal decision-making process in the police, which must…
Judge jails another man for killing Syrians in Nørrebro
On Thursday, the Copenhagen Police arrested another man for having participated in the murder of a 26-year-old Syrian man on Hans Tavsens Gade on 7 September. It informs the police on Friday in a press release. Deputy police inspector Bjarke Dalsgaard tells Ritzau that the 24-year-old man was arrested on Thursday morning at his work…
Police arrest another man for killing Syrians in Nørrebro
On Thursday, the Copenhagen Police arrested another man for having participated in the murder of a Syrian man on Hans Tavsens Gade on 7 September. This was stated by the police on Friday in a press release, and deputy police inspector Bjarke Dalsgaard tells Ritzau that the 24-year-old man was arrested on Thursday morning at…
Pia Kjærsgaard throws Skipper and baby out of the Folketing Hall
During the Folketing’s opening debate on Thursday, the Unity List’s Pernille Skipper was asked to leave the Folketing Hall with her baby, while Pia Kjærsgaard (DF) sat in the chair. It writes Politiken. Skipper confirms to Ritzau that the episode has taken place. But she has no further comment. This is not the first time…
Mothers from Syrian prison camps are due in court on Thursday
According to the daily newspaper Politiken, another of the women will be produced before a judge in the Court in Kolding, while the last, according to information to Ritzau, is expected to be produced before a judge in the Court in Frederiksberg on Thursday afternoon. According to DR Nyheder, all three were remanded in custody…
Mothers from Syrian prison camps are going to court in three places in Denmark
One of the three women who have landed in Denmark after evacuation from Syrian prison camps will be questioned at the Constitutional Court in Esbjerg at 12 noon on Thursday. This is stated by lawyer Mette Grith Stage. She represents one of three women who landed in Denmark on Thursday night with a total of…
FACTS: Three women and 14 children are on their way from Syria
They are sitting here because in their time they traveled out of Denmark to join the militant movement Islamic State (IS). When the women land on Danish soil, they are expected to be remanded in custody for terrorism, writes DR Nyheder on Wednesday. Read more about the women and their children here: * An ethnic…
Media: Three IS mothers and 14 children are on their way from Syria to Denmark
According to DR News, the 14 children and the three mothers left the al-Roj prison camp in northeastern Syria early this morning, and they are expected to land in Denmark within 24 hours. The three women traveled voluntarily from Denmark to Syria, where they joined the Islamic State. One of the women has dual citizenship,…
Three IS mothers and 14 children are on their way from Syria to Denmark
14 children and their total of three Danish mothers, who have stayed in a prison camp in Syria, are on their way to Denmark. This is confirmed by lawyer Knud Foldschack, who is the party representative for two of the three women who come home. – They are in a plane on their way to…
FACTS: Life sentences are on average 16-17 years old
Below you can read more about the indefinite sentence. * Life imprisonment is considered the country’s most severe punishment and is basically a sentence of imprisonment for the rest of your life. * On average, however, life sentences are released after 16-17 years in prison. * At the earliest after 12 years, a lifer can…
FACTS: Three women and their 14 children are brought from Syria
But when the group soon lands on Danish soil, they are already charged with terror, DR News writes on Wednesday. Read more about the women and their children here: * An ethnic Danish woman from Zealand in the early 30s with Danish citizenship and her two small children, a girl and an adopted boy. The…
Police action in 2019 resulted in several terrorist cases
The defendants in the case were arrested in connection with a police operation on 11 December 2019. Here, the police arrested about 20 people, several of whom have been released again. The action resulted in three cases, which in total ended with the indictment of six people – one of whom has been convicted: Case…
FACTS: Niels from Aars created diplomatic crisis with India
The relationship has been in deep crisis due to the Dane Niels Holck, whom India has wanted to extradite for almost two decades. Read about the case here: * In December 1995, Niels Holck – under the pseudonym Kim Peter Davy – helped drop several tons of weapons in the Indian province of West Bengal.…
Bodil winner brought Suzuki to Denmark
On Tuesday, Anne-Lise Gabold turns 80. She graduated from the Royal Theatre’s student school in 1969 and was employed at the theater as an extension of her education. The following season, she switched to Suzanne Osten’s socialist street theater group Fickteatern in Stockholm. Over the years, she has performed on a sea of Danish stages.…
The blue and yellow envelopes are ready for postal votes
If you have to vote by mail elsewhere than at Borgerservice – for example at the hospital, if you are hospitalized – you must wait until three weeks before the election. Around the world, we have seen elections affected by the corona pandemic. Among other things, there has been an increase in postal votes in…
OVERVIEW: Conflicts in gang environments cost 16 lives last year
* Last year was the bloodiest when it comes to killing in the rocker and gang environments, the National Police has previously assessed. * 16 people lost their lives in total. Five of the crimes were committed in the East Jutland police district. * According to police, it was a failed cannabis deal that led…
Thorning: Ex-president took me by the thigh
The episode with the French ex-president was during a dinner at the French embassy in Copenhagen, when Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in 2002-2003 was president of the European Convention, which was to draw up a European constitutional treaty. He was in his late 70s at the time. Helle Thorning-Schmidt was in her 30s, a member of…
Thorning on Kofod: He was punished and may be minister
She is coming out on Monday with the book “The Blonde’s Considerations”, which is about gender, feminism and #MeToo. Here she reflects on Jeppe Kofod’s current ministerial post in the light of the wave that was seriously set in motion in Denmark after a speech by TV host Sofie Linde at the Zulu Comedy Galla…
Thorning: French ex-president took me on the thigh during dinner
The episode with the French ex-president was during a dinner at the French embassy in Copenhagen, when Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in 2002-2003 was president of the European Convention, which was to draw up a European constitutional treaty. The ex-president was at the time in his late 70s. Helle Thorning-Schmidt was in her 30s, a member…
Educators see increasing dissatisfaction in children
Here, more than every other educator answers that they experience that the number of children who are unhappy increases. At the same time, almost every third educator experiences that he or she only has sufficient time to take care of the children’s well-being and development. 31 percent give that answer, while two percent answer that…
Hugo Helmig adjusts his career indefinitely
It informs his music company The Bank to Ritzau. – Everything shuts down indefinitely, and it is currently not certain that Hugo will return to music, it sounds. Therefore, his tour of Denmark, which the young singer has just embarked on, is canceled. And the upcoming release “Lulu vol. 3”, which he has been working…
How to spot dyslexia in your child
Children with dyslexia will at an early age show signs that they have difficulty with letters and sounds. This is what Marianne Aaen Thorsen, reading consultant in Fredensborg Municipality, says. – The linguistic signs are very characteristic because it is a language learning difficulty. The child has difficulty perceiving and processing sounds in the language.…
How to make money on your old car
The market for used cars is hot, and therefore it pays to have ice in your stomach if you as a private person want to sell. It is backed by Ilyas Dogru, who is a consumer economist at the car owners’ organization, FDM. For the supply is small and the demand is great. However, he…
Fight the garden weeds with a nice ground cover
More people are in demand for ground cover plants, which give both color and life to the garden and at the same time keep the weeds at bay. – The ground cover plants have really had a renaissance, states Arne Persson, who is a gardener with 50 years of experience and a plant consultant at…
The blue and yellow envelopes are ready for postal votes
Around the world, we have seen elections affected by the corona pandemic. Among other things, there has been an increase in postal votes in several places. Some believe it is due to the pandemic. However, local government researcher Roger Buch from the Danish School of Media and Journalism does not believe that we should expect…
High court releases rape-accused filmmaker
The filmmaker chose to appeal that decision to the Eastern High Court, and the high court informs Ritzau on Friday that a decision has been made to release the man. When the man was arrested and produced before a judge in September, it was with a string of charges of both violence and rape against…
Officer was threatened to hand over his weapon in Herlev
The Copenhagen West Region Police informs about the case on Friday. Later, however, the service pistol was found again, police inspector Michael Hellensberg informs. The episode took place around 02 o’clock on Valnæsvej next to number 67, the police write on Twitter. – Threatening a policeman with a gun is completely unacceptable and extremely rude…
Two perpetrators threatened a policeman with a gun in Herlev
– Threatening a policeman with a gun is completely unacceptable and extremely rude and something we look at very seriously. We have made a massive effort to find the perpetrators, says Chief Police Inspector Knud Stadsgaard on Twitter. Copenhagen West Region Police informs Ritzau that the officer was at work and that he was wearing…
The government pulls ashore in case of polygamy
The government will still not accept that evacuated Afghans have more wives or minor spouses. This is stated by Minister of Immigration and Integration Mattias Tesfaye (S) in a written comment to Ritzau. – Next week, I plan to submit a bill to the Folketing that will give the evacuated Afghans the opportunity to apply…
Nervous firefighters go to the doctor in vain
The substance was previously used in fire foam. But when the firefighters come up to the doctor, they are told that they must pay for a blood test, writes Jyllands-Posten. In the Firefighters’ Organization, BO, chairman Keld Rasmussen tells Ritzau that the firefighters do not understand that they have to pay the 2000 kroner that…
FACTS: Three mayors have left their party
* Henrik Frandsen (Tønder) has changed from Venstre to Tønder Listen. * Karsten Nielsen (Læsø) has changed from the Danish People’s Party to the Liberal Party. The first two are wrecked as leading candidates of the hinterland, while Læsø’s mayor justifies the change of party with the fact that it gives him a greater chance…
FACTS: 20 mayors do not run again
The other 10 sit out the election period. These are the mayors of the following municipalities: * Glostrup, Billund, Fanø, Haderslev, Kolding, Varde, Vejen, Ærø, Struer and Syddjurs. Sources: Local media, Ritzau.
FACTS: Voice swallows have gone prematurely – each in its own way
* Joy Mogensen, Social Democratic mayor of Roskilde, stopped in June 2019 to become Minister of Culture and was replaced by Tomas Breddam. * Jacob Bjerregaard, Social Democratic mayor of Fredericia, had the status of city king in the old fortress town, but in December 2020 he suddenly left the post. After that, the events…
Man from Virum killed in a motorway accident near Køge
After the collision with the pile of earth, the car smoked on the roof and into one of the lanes on the motorway. When rescue crews arrived, the motorist was pronounced dead at the scene. The police initially did not want to disclose the identity of the motorist, as the relatives had not been notified.…
Judge extends imprisonment of filmmaker in case of violence
The man denies guilt and has on the spot appealed the ruling to the Eastern High Court, his lawyer states. The court came to the fore in the case for the first time on 16 September. That day, he was remanded in custody for 13 days. It happened after a court hearing that lasted several…
Infections put tremendous pressure on hospitals
– Namely that it is to a large extent different infections that unfortunately send a lot of Danes in contact with the health service in one way or another, she says to Ritzau. The pediatric wards in particular are feeling the pressure, says Klaus Birkelund Johansen, chairman of the paediatricians in the Danish Pediatric Society.…
The victim of the crime will appear on all channels
But she has both before and since starred in a large number of films and TV series. And at the same time she has the talent to make a name for herself on new platforms. Actress Julie R. Ølgaard turns 40 on 29 September. She has described herself as spontaneous and impatient. But has over…
Majority agrees to extend ban on mink keeping for one year
In advance, government support parties had expressed support for a permanent ban or an extension of the ban. They did so, among other things, with reference to input from the Statens Serum Institut (SSI). Earlier Tuesday, Ritzau and other media were able to learn that SSI maintains its assessment from June. Here it is estimated…
The Supreme Court forces TV 2 to hand over tapes with hidden footage
It is the East Jutland Police who want to get their hands on the unedited footage in connection with the investigation of two cases. On the one hand, the police are investigating whether employees from TV 2 have violated the law in connection with the recordings, and on the other hand, it is being investigated…