News from Denmark
Yesterday a local politician from the nationalist Danske Folkeparti in the town of Korsør was awoken by a molotov cocktail being thrown against his house. Apparently it narrowly missed his bedroom window. Naturally he called the police only to be told they couldn’t be bothered to come and investigate since the fire had gone out. He was refered to another police station which would be open for business at 8am.
According to DR news, there have been multiple verbal attacks and threats against local politicians made in Korsør and upwards of one third of all local council authorities have reported on threats of violence in the last few years. One of the other local politicians in Korsør received a note which told him that his ‘anti Muslim’ attitude had been noted and he was to consider himself warned. The note was signed ‘al qaeda’.
edited to add this observation on social violence in Europe:
BBC: Bad behaviour, worst in Europe.
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The government is proposing a new licensing law today where by all homes, whether they own a TV or not, must pay a TV license if they own a computer. Their argument rests on the possibility that people can now see TV online and whether or not they choose to do so they must cough up a few thousand kroner to help pay for Denmarks state media service (called Danmarks Radio).
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According to an article in JP today, Danmarks Statistik has released figures which show the level of immigration into Denmark. According to these figures, immigrants now make up 8.6% of the Danish population, that is to say, 467,371 people, about 200,00 of these are Muslims, predominantly from Turkey and Iraq. These two groups also dominate the numbers of second and third generation children born to immigrants, who are not considered immigrants if they are born in Denmark.
The trend of immigration shows that currently there are more Poles than any other group entering Denmark (something the Europhiles said wouldn’t happen) but the numbers of immigrants from India, the Philipines and Ukrania are also rising considerably. For the first time since the early 90’s the number of Somali’s is in decline.
2 comments:
Naturally he called the police only to be told they couldn’t be bothered to come and investigate since the fire had gone out. He was refered to another police station which would be open for business at 8am.
Why in the world does Denmark have "off hours" for the police? Crime isn't on a fixed schedule.
A skeleton crew I could understand but...
A lot of the smaller communities had their police forces removed or reduced in the last few decades as a result of government cut backs.
Violent crime in Denmark has actually been a relatively small problem in the last two decades.
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