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Man stabbed to death in Danish asylum centre

North Zealand Police said on Monday that a man who was found dead at Center Sandholm on Sunday had been killed in an apparent stabbing.

Published: 3 October 2016 10:29 CEST
Updated: 3 October 2016 17:38 CEST
Man stabbed to death in Danish asylum centre
Center Sandholm. Photo: Mariam Nielsen/Røde Kors
“The man was stabbed several times with a knife and the North Zealand Police are investigating it as a murder case,” a police press release said.
 
Police said that the stabbing appeared to be the result of some sort of disagreement between residents at the Center Sandholm. 
 
Police said a 34-year-old man who until recently lived at the centre was a person of interest. 
 
“We've started the investigation and there is nothing in the case that should give rise to insecurity to the neighbours of Center Sandholm,” Commissioner Henrik Gunst said.
 
Located some 30km north of downtown Copenhagen, Center Sandholm is Denmark’s largest asylum centre and currently has nearly 400 residents. 
 

Police did not release any information about the victim's nationality nor that of the 34-year-old man.
 
The centre is operated by the Red Cross, which reported the man’s death to police on Sunday. 
 
Police classified the death as ’suspicious’ on Sunday afternoon before confirming the cause of death on Monday. 
 

In September 2015, a stateless Palestinian who was due to be expelled from Denmark was arrested for trying to kill a Danish police officer in a stabbing attack at Center Sandholm.

 

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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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