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Copenhagen Police nab ‘serial flasher’

A man who repeatedly exposed himself over the course of the past week and who was seen on various occasions masturbating in public was apprehend by Copenhagen Police on Sunday.

Published: 10 November 2014 08:23 CET
Copenhagen Police nab 'serial flasher'
Enghaveparken in Vesterbro was one of the several locations where the man exposed himself. Photo: Jane Mejdahl/Flickr
In a series of tweets on Sunday, police said they were looking for a man who had exposed himself on several occasions throughout Copenhagen beginning on November 4th. 
 
On Sunday, reports came in about the flasher exposing himself in public areas in Vesterbro and Christianshavn. 
 
Later in the day, police said they had nabbed the serial exhibitionist. 
 
“The discussed flasher is arrested. Copenhagen Police appreciate the many valuable tips in the case,” police wrote on Twitter. 
 
Police described the man as being around 30 years old, 185cm tall, and wearing black glasses and a blue coat.
 
Police said that although the man had exposed himself and masturbated publicly, he hadn’t directly accosted anyone. 

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CRIME

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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