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Man shot in the streets in Copenhagen suburb

A 34-year-old man was shot at least three times in his Brøndby Strand neighbourhood late on Wednesday.

Published: 26 November 2015 08:44 CET
Man shot in the streets in Copenhagen suburb
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A local man from the the southwestern Copenhagen suburb of Brøndby Strand was seriously injured after being shot near his home, police said. 
 
Copenhagen Vestegn Police said the shooting occurred in the a residential area.
 
“We received a report at 10.11pm that a person was shot in Brøndby Strand at Tybjergparken 77. The man lives in the area and was hit by several shots. He was in critical condition when we arrived,” police spokesman Peter Grønbæk told TV2, which reported that the man’s condition had been upgraded to stabile as of Thursday morning. 
 
Police on Thursday morning were questioning witnesses and did not release any additional information. 
 
Brøndby Municipality was recently declared the most violent area in all of Denmark. 

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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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