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Mother and baby stabbed repeatedly: police

41-year-old father pled not guilty to stabbing his 16-month-old baby and 33-year-old wife, the latter of whom was stabbed at least ten times in the neck.

Published: 12 August 2014 11:50 CEST
Mother and baby stabbed repeatedly: police
Police investigators at the scene of the stabbing. Photo: Jens Dresling/POLFOTO
The 33-year-old woman who was attacked by her husband in Copenhagen on Monday was stabbed as many as 11 times in the neck, while her 16-month-old son was stabbed numerous times in the neck and upper body.
 
The police charges filed against the woman’s 41-year-old husband, who is the father of the child victim, revealed the gruesome details of the attack, which was carried out in broad daylight in Copenhagen’s Nordvest district. 
 
According to police, the man used a paring knife with a 8.5 cm blade. 
 
Both stabbing victims remain in critical but stable condition. 
 
The suspect appeared in a Frederiksberg court on Tuesday where he pled not guilty to two counts of attempted murder. He will be held on remand for the next four weeks.
 
According to Ritzau, the man is a Somali citizen who has a previous criminal record. He is in Denmark under a scheme known as tålt ophold, in which rejected asylum seekers are allowed to remain in the country due to dangerous conditions in their homelands. 
 
Several residents witnessed the Monday attack and onlookers managed to wrestle the knife away from the man and hold him down until police arrived.  

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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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