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Latest shooting in west Aarhus probably gang-related: police

A 21-year-old man was shot in Aarhus on Monday in another violent incident believed by police to be connected to organised crime.

Published: 12 June 2017 09:47 CEST
Latest shooting in west Aarhus probably gang-related: police
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The man’s condition is not critical, according to DR Nyheder.

The shooting incident occurred during the early hours of Monday on the Edwin Rahrs Vej road in the western part of the city.

East Jutland police vice inspector Jeppe James Olsen told DR that the shooting is being considered as related to an ongoing gang-related conflict in the west Aarhus neighbourhood.

Several arrests were also made last weekend after a series of violent incidents in the area.

Police received new reports of shootings at an address in west Aarhus just after midnight on Monday.

“We dispatched a patrol to the location, but did not find anyone there. But shortly afterwards a 21-year-old man with gunshot wounds was brought in to the hospital. He has been treated overnight and his life is not in danger,” Olsen said.

“We are working on several theories, but initial impressions suggest that this is an internal conflict in an ongoing organised crime conflict in west Aarhus,” he added.

Police are reported to believe the recent surge in organised crime-related violence in Aarhus to be linked to attempts by a Copenhagen-based gang known as ‘Loyal to Familia’ to establish itself in the city.

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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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