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Danish man murdered in Mexico

The Danish Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday that a citizen was shot in Mexico. According to Mexican media reports, the shooting was fatal.

Published: 29 May 2015 15:15 CEST
Danish man murdered in Mexico
Polanco, Mexico City. Photo: Kintanarrey/WikiCommons
A Danish man was shot dead outside his home in an upscale area of Mexico City, Mexican media reported on Thursday.
 
Mexican media outlet Noticieros reported that the Danish man was shot three times, including once in the head. 
 
The shooting reportedly occurred during a robbery attempt at the Dane's home in Polanco, a wealthy district just outside of Mexico City. Media reports speculated that the Dane may have returned home to see the robbery in progress. When he confronted the man, an argument ensued which culminated in the fatal shooting. 
 
The Danish Foreign Ministry did not release the identity of the man, and Mexican media reports gave conflicting names for the victim. 

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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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