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Danish man gets stuck in museum chimney

A 40-year-old local man’s strange rooftop escapades in Stubbekøbing on the island of Falster ended when he got stuck in the chimney of a local museum.

Published: 30 May 2016 10:49 CEST
Danish man gets stuck in museum chimney
Not the actual chimney. Photo: Adrian Scottow/Flickr
“On Sunday morning we received a report about someone running around on some sheds and roofs in Stubbekøbing. He continued to Stubbekøbing Museum, where he ran along the ridge. At some point he either jumped into or fell into the chimney,” Lolland-Falster Police spokesman Anders Mikkelsen told news agency Ritzau.  
 
 
The man fell some six to seven metres down the chimney, where he was stuck and unable to move. 
 
Mikkelsen said that a rescue crew had to break through the museum door and then cut a hole in the chimney to get the man out. 
 
The 40-year-old wasn’t injured in the incident, but his ftime in atight spots wasn’t over. When police ran the unwanted museum guest’s information, they found that he was wanted on charges related to his recent release from Jyderup State Prison.  
 
Mikkelsen was unable to explain what brought the man up to the rooftop on the first place. 

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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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