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Woman ‘executed’ by ex-husband: police

Police suspect that the man who shot his ex-wife in broad daylight in a Copenhagen suburb did so with the full intention of killing her.

Published: 10 July 2014 22:21 CEST
Woman 'executed' by ex-husband: police
The woman was shot in Hvidore Butikstorv on Thursday afternoon. Photo: Ole Mik/Scanpix
Thursday afternoon’s fatal shooting of a 28-year-old woman was an “execution” by her ex-husband, police say. 
 
The woman was shot in a public square in the Copenhagen suburb of Hvidore. 
 
“It was a violent episode. To my mind, it is a definitive execution when you fire so many shots. Then you are more are less certain that the person in question is going to die,” police spokesman Carsten Johanson told Danmarks Radio. 
 
According to the police, the woman had numerous gun shot wounds to her chest. She died shortly after the incident. 
 
Police arrested the woman’s 33-year-old ex-husband roughly three hours after the shooting. Police also found what they believe was the murder weapon. 
 
According to DR, authorities will carry out an autopsy on Friday to discover how many times the woman was shot.
 
The suspect is due to face preliminary questioning on Friday. 
 
Both the victim and the suspect are subscribed as being Turkish Danes. They have one child together. 

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Danish government backs removing children from gang-connected families

Denmark’s government wants authorities to be able to move children out of families in which parents are gang members and is likely to formalise the measure in parliament.

Published: 9 April 2024 13:38 CEST
Danish government backs removing children from gang-connected families

The justice spokesperson with senior coalition partner the Social Democrats, Bjørn Brandenborg, told regional media TV2 Fyn that he wants authorities to have the power to remove children from their families in certain circumstances where the parents are gang members.

Brandenborg’s comments came on Monday, after Odense Municipality said it had spent 226 million kroner since 2009 on social services for eight specific families with gang connections.

“There is simply a need for us to give the authorities full backing and power to forcibly remove children early so we break the food chain and the children don’t become part of gang circles,” he said.

The measure will be voted on in parliament “within a few weeks”, he said.

An earlier agreement on anti-gang crime measures, which was announced by the government last November, includes provisions for measures of this nature, Brandenborg later confirmed to newswire Ritzau.

“Information [confirming] that close family members of a child or young person have been convicted for gang crime must be included as a significant and element in the municipality’s assessment” of whether an intervention is justified, the agreement states according to Ritzau.

The relevant part of November’s political agreement is expected to be voted on in parliament this month.

READ ALSO: Denmark cracks down on gang crime with extensive new agreement

Last year, Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard told political media Altinget that family relations to a gang member could be a parameter used by authorities when assessing whether a child should be forcibly removed from parents.

In the May 2023 interview, Hummelgaard called the measure a “hard and far-reaching measure”.

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