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Dane cut off women’s genitals in South Africa

South African police have arrested a Danish citizen after 21 pieces of female genitalia were discovered in his freezer.

Published: 21 September 2015 09:15 CEST
Dane cut off women’s genitals in South Africa
The body parts were found in the man's freezer (not pictured here). Photo: Peter Galvin/Flickr
A police spokesman from the Free State province in South Africa told the media that a 58-year-old Danish man was arrested on Thursday after a female victim reported that she was attacked in the man’s home. 
 
The woman reported that she was drugged and then had her genitalia cut off while she was unable to defend herself. When police arrested the Dane at his home in the city of Bloemfontein, they found 21 pieces of genitalia stored in his freezer.
 
Police spokesman Hangwani Maulaudzi said that surgical tools, anaesthetic and a trove of photos were also discovered in the man’s home. 
 
The woman who reported the crime was reportedly the man’s wife. 
 
Following the initial reports in the South African press, Danish tabloid BT identified the man on Sunday as 63-year-old ‘PF’. BT reported that the man participated in a radio documentary for DR’s P1 in which he openly detailed performing genital mutilation on his African wife and her friends. 
 
According to BT, ‘PF’ fled from Denmark to South Africa to avoid weapons charges. 
 
The man is due to make a court appearance on Monday to face charges of sexual assault and South African police are asking other possible victims to step forward. Police said that forensic experts are currently determining if the pieces of female genitalia came from 21 different women. Police were also uncertain if the gruesome attacks were carried out while the women were alive or dead. 
 
The Danish man reportedly owns a gun shop in Bloemfontein. 
 

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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