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‘Breakthrough’ in Dane’s gruesome genitalia case

South African police say there has has been a breakthrough in the case of the Danish man accused of cutting off women’s sexual organs and storing them in his freezer.

Published: 21 October 2015 08:28 CEST
'Breakthrough' in Dane's gruesome genitalia case
The macabre case is playing out in Bloemfontein. Photo: South African Tourism/Flickr
Police in South Africa have now identified several of a 63-year-old Danish man’s female victims, investigators have told Ekstra Bladet. 
 
Officials in the South African town of Bloemfontein recently identified two additional women, both in their 20s. A seven-year-old girl is also among the victims, and investigators also believe that some of the genitals found in the man’s freezer come from Danish women. 
 
“We are following several tracks in the case but this is a preliminary breakthrough,” investigator Lynda Steyn told Ekstra Bladet. 
 
 
The 63-year-old man, who has been identified in the Danish press as Peter Frederiksen, was arrested in mid-September after one of his alleged victims, reportedly his own wife, led police to the man’s home. 
 
There they made the gruesome discovery of 21 pieces of female genitalia that were stored in a freezer. 
 
The suspect has been held in police custody for nearly a month and will appear before a judge again on November 4th. His lawyers will appeal to the court to release the man on bail, something the court has previously denied. 
 
The man in question had previously voluntarily participated in a radio documentary for Danish public broadcaster DR in which he openly detailed performing genital mutilation on his African wife and her friends. 
 
He reportedly fled from Denmark to South Africa to avoid weapons charges and opened a gun shop in the city of Bloemfontein. 
 

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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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