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In photos: Denmark in the 1990s, and the same places today

Take a look at Denmark in the '90s – and check the same locations in up-to-date images.

Published: 24 July 2019 13:48 CEST

In photos: Denmark in the 1990s, and the same places today

Composite: Svend Åge Mortensen, Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix

We've picked out a selection of archive shots of Denmark in the '90s, and looked up the locations where they were taken in modern images or on Google Maps.

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Great Belt Bridge, 1995

The Great Belt Bridge linking Funen and Zealand opened in 1998. Prior to this, a ferry had to be taken to travel between the two Danish regions. The second photo of the bridge is from 2017.

Photo: Svend Åge Mortensen / Ritzau Scanpix

Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix

Roskilde Festival, 1991

The 1991 edition of Roskilde Festival was a wet and muddy affair. 2019's weather was more about the wind.

Photo: Thomas Sjørup / Ritzau Scanpix

Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix

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Christiania, 1996

Alternative enclave Christiania was founded by squatters in the early 1970s and has undergone many changes throughout the years.

Photo: Bjarke Ørsted / Ritzau Scanpix

Copenhagen Harbour, 1993

In this image, Copenhagen Harbour can be seen with its former ferry terminals in the days before the 1999 'Black Diamond' addition to the Royal Library was built. The modern photo is from a different angle.

Photo: Mogens Ladegaard / Ritzau Scanpix

Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix

Stelling House, Copenhagen, 1999

Stelling House (Stellings Hus) on the Gammel Torv square in central Copenhagen was designed by famous Danish architect Arne Jacobsen.

Photo: Kaspar Wenstrup / Nf-Nf / Ritzau Scanpix

Nørregade, Copenhagen, 1999

The building which was once the Daells Varehus department store now houses a hotel. Here it can be seen before conversion in 1999.

Photo: Brian Rasmussen / Nf-Nf / Ritzau Scanpix

Aalborg, 1997

Gøglerbåden, a famous maritime-themed bar in Aalborg. closed in 2017.

Photo: Henning Bagger / Ritzau Scanpix

Ørestad, Amager, 1998

The modern Ørestad suburb near Copenhagen was at the very beginnings of its development in the late '90s.

Photo: Peter Elmholt / Nf-Nf / Ritzau Scanpix

Photo: Ulf Liljankoski/Creative Commons

READ ALSO: Ten historic pictures that show life in Denmark decades ago

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France to compensate relatives of Algerian Harki fighters

More than 200,000 Algerians fought with the French army in the war that pitted Algerian independence fighters against their French colonial masters from 1954 to 1962.

At the end of the war, the French government left the loyalist fighters known as Harkis to fend for themselves, despite earlier promises it would look after them.

Trapped in Algeria, many were massacred as the new authorities took revenge.

Thousands of others who fled to France were held in camps, often with their families, in deplorable conditions that an AFP investigation recently found led to the deaths of dozens of children, most of them babies.

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French President Emmanuel Macron in 2021 asked for “forgiveness” on behalf of his country for abandoning the Harkis and their families after independence.

The following year, a law was passed to recognise the state’s responsibility for the “indignity of the hosting and living conditions on its territory”, which caused “exclusion, suffering and lasting trauma”, and recognised the right to reparations for those who had lived in 89 of the internment camps.

But following a new report, 45 new sites – including military camps, slums and shacks – were added on Monday to that list of places the Harkis and their relatives were forced to live, the government said.

Now “up to 14,000 (more) people could receive compensation after transiting through one of these structures,” it said, signalling possible reparations for both the Harkis and their descendants.

Secretary of state Patricia Miralles said the decision hoped to “make amends for a new injustice, including in regions where until now the prejudices suffered by the Harkis living there were not recognised”.

Macron has spoken out on a number of France’s unresolved colonial legacies, including nuclear testing in Polynesia, its role in the Rwandan genocide and war crimes in Algeria.

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