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Man shot three times outside Copenhagen suburb home

A 23-year-old man was hit by up to three shots in the upper body on Tuesday night near his home in the suburb of Herlev, Copenhagen Vestegn Police said.

Published: 13 April 2016 10:09 CEST
Man shot three times outside Copenhagen suburb home
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The victim was taken to Copenhagen’s Rigshospital and is not in mortal danger, police said. 
 
“At 10.10pm we received a report that a 23-year-old man was hit by two to three shots in the chest and stomach. When we came out there, the man was found in his apartment,” spokesman Thomas Christensen told news agency Ritzau. 
 
According to witnesses, the shooting occurred right in front of the entrance to the man’s apartment building. 
 
Police said that “a man in his 20s of Middle Eastern appearance” was seen running from the scene. 
 
Christensen did not say if the shooting was gang-related but said the victim was “known to police”. 

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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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