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Man stabs and kills his mother in Denmark

A 21-year-old man with mental problems has admitted to repeatedly stabbing and killing his own mother, police said on Thursday night.

Published: 6 November 2015 09:03 CET
Man stabs and kills his mother in Denmark
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A 55-year-old woman on the island of Funen was stabbed and killed by her own son on Thursday. 
 
Her 21-year-old son voluntarily went to Odense University Hospital’s psychiatric unit and told personnel that he had killed his mother. When hospital staff alerted police, officers arrived at the woman’s home to find her dead from repeated stab wounds. 
 
Funen Police said in a press release that the murder weapon was found at the address but that the timing of the death was uncertain. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday. 
 
Speaking to BT, police spokesman Henrik Justesen said it was too soon to speculate on a motive. 
 
“We don’t know but we are clearly talking about a sick man because it isn’t normal to kill your mother,” he said. 
 
Local news site fynsk.dk reported that the 21-year-old man was receiving psychiatric treatment. He was an inpatient at the hospital’s psychiatric ward until this summer when he was released under an outpatient treatment plan. 
 
The man is due to make a preliminary court appearance on Friday. 

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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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