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Man arrested after woman’s body identified

The woman found dead in a plastic sack over the weekend was in Denmark on a tourist visa from a north African country, police said after arresting a 32-year-old Funen resident for her murder.

Published: 13 January 2015 07:50 CET
Man arrested after woman's body identified
Police at the scene of where the woman's body was found. Photo: Bo Amstrup/Scanpix
After receiving more than 200 tip-offs about the female body found off the side of a road in Jutland on Saturday, police made their breakthrough on Monday evening.
 
East Jutland Police said that a 32-year-old Funen resident has been arrested for murdering the woman, whose body was found in a plastic sack at a lay-by just outside of Langå.
 
According to a police press release, the woman was killed in the man’s residence. 
 
 
Police have identified the woman, saying that she is from a north African country and was in Denmark on a tourist visa. As of Monday night, police had not been able to contact the woman’s family and were thus not releasing any additional information about her identity. 
 
East Jutland Police turned to residents for help in identifying the woman. A photo of her corpse was released publicly and police said that nearly 200 tip-offs were called in. 
 
One of those led to the break in the case. 
 
“We are very thankful for the help we received from residents in this case. Without their help it is not certain that we would have been able to identify the woman,” East Jutland Police spokesman Jesper Bøjgaard Madsen said. 
 
The 32-year-old male suspect will face a preliminary examination by Funen Police on Tuesday. 

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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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