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Woman shot dead in Copenhagen square

A 28-year-woman was shot multiple times and killed in a square in a suburb of Copenhagen on Thursday afternoon.

Published: 10 July 2014 16:07 CEST

Police rushed to the scene after receiving reports of a shooting in the south-western Hvidovre suburb shortly after midday, newspaper Ekstra Bladet reported. 

"She was shot several times, but we don't know exactly how many," police spokesman Carsten Jansson told the newspaper. "She had a number of gunshot wounds to her chest." 

By the time police arrived, passers-by were attempting to resuscitate the woman. She was pronounced dead at 12.30pm.

Police suspect the woman was killed by her ex-husband. After releasing his identity and asking the public for leads, they were able to arrest the man.

The 33-year-old suspect was arrested on the Amager Motorvej shortly after 4pm. 

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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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