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This thief in Denmark doesn’t understand how ice works

Police in southern Denmark said on Sunday that an apparent would-be thief who attempted to throw a safe in a lake ran in to just one small problem: the lake was frozen.

Published: 25 January 2016 08:35 CET
This thief in Denmark doesn’t understand how ice works
Warming temperatures will probably free the safe this week. Photo: Syd- og Sønderjyllands Politi/Twitter
South Jutland Police said they are investigating how a safe ended up in a frozen lake in Esbjerg but have a pretty good clue of where to start looking. 
 
“Within the past 24 hours we had a break-in in which a safe similar to that was stolen, but it is still uncertain if the one out on the ice is it,” spokesman Claus Skovgaard told TV2.
 
The half-submerged safe was spotted sticking out of the frozen lake by a resident who tipped off the police. 
 
 
As of Sunday, the authorities were not able to retrieve it but warmer temperatures moved in on Monday and the weather was expected to remain above the freezing point for the remainder of the week, presumably freeing up the safe for further inspection. 
 
Police wrote on Twitter that whoever threw the safe into the lake wasn’t able to open it up to get inside. 
 
“Ugh, first a struggle to steal the safe, then it can’t be opened and then when it’s dumped in the lake, the water was firm,” police wrote. 
 

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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”.

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