Read news from:
Austria
SHARE
COPY LINK

CRIME

Burglar caught stealing hand sanitiser from Danish hospital

A man in Denmark broke into a hospital on Sunday night and attempted to steal 27 bottles of hand sanitiser, police in East Jutland have reported.

Published: 23 March 2020 14:31 CET
Burglar caught stealing hand sanitiser from Danish hospital
Hand sanitiser is in short supply in Denmark. Photo: Ida Guldbæk Arentsen/Ritzau Scanpix
The man, who was between 18 and 30 years old, set off a burglar alarm at Aarhus University Hospital shortly after 10pm and was accosted by hospital security staff shortly afterwards. 
 
“The perpetrator shouted to the guard, that if he came any closer he would stab him with a knife,” East Jutland Police said in a press release issued on Monday. 
 
The man then bolted, managing to make it to a small, dark-coloured car and driving off. 
 
During his escape, however, he discarded the two bags he was carrying, which turned out to contain 27 bottles of hand sanitiser and two laptops.
 
The police said that the man was wearing tracksuit bottoms and a parka jacket. 
 
Hospitals and doctors are currently being given priority access to hand sanitiser in Denmark, making it the one product which is no longer available in shops and supermarkets as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. 
 
 

Member comments

Log in here to leave a comment.
Become a Member to leave a comment.

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”.

SHOW COMMENTS