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Rookie Danish police officer shoots self in leg during training

A trainee at Denmark’s Politiskolen academy for police recruits was injured during lessons at a shooting range.

Published: 9 August 2018 16:36 CEST
Rookie Danish police officer shoots self in leg during training
Photo: Mathias Øgendal/Ritzau Scanpix

The incident occurred at a police shooting range near Copenhagen.

The Independent Police Complaints Authority, which is investigating the incident, said the injured trainee is not in a critical condition.

“The person shot themselves in the thigh, but it is not critical,” special consultant Janus Rasmussen said.

The police authority is involved in the case as a matter of standard procedure following shooting-related injuries resulting from police work.

“We were informed that a live shooting incident took place in Copenhagen and proceeded there to investigate,” Rasmussen said.

The authority is based in second city Aarhus.

The individual involved in the accident was admitted to Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet for treatment.

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Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

A Danish court on Thursday gave a two-month suspended prison sentence to a 31-year-old Swede for making a joke about a bomb at Copenhagen's airport this summer.

Published: 5 October 2023 17:11 CEST
Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

In late July, Pontus Wiklund, a handball coach who was accompanying his team to an international competition, said when asked by an airport agent that
a bag of balls he was checking in contained a bomb.

“We think you must have realised that it is more than likely that if you say the word ‘bomb’ in response to what you have in your bag, it will be perceived as a threat,” the judge told Wiklund, according to broadcaster TV2, which was present at the hearing.

The airport terminal was temporarily evacuated, and the coach arrested. He later apologised on his club’s website.

“I completely lost my judgement for a short time and made a joke about something you really shouldn’t joke about, especially in that place,” he said in a statement.

According to the public prosecutor, the fact that Wiklund was joking, as his lawyer noted, did not constitute a mitigating circumstance.

“This is not something we regard with humour in the Danish legal system,” prosecutor Christian Brynning Petersen told the court.

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