News from Denmark

Danish researchers have isolated the gene which may cause asthma. The long-term expectation is that the find will improve the treatment of asthma patients, as people carrying the gene will be able to receive a more precise diagnosis and enter treatment earlier.
The scientists behind the discovery of the gene are from the University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital. Their search began in 1996, and there has been fierce international competition to find the gene.
English article.


It has been discovered that hundreds of old Danish landscape paintings, by such artists as Janus La Cour, H.A. Brendekilde and Peder Mønsted, have been bought by Russian art swindlers, touched up with added Russian details, such as orthodox churches being painted over Danish churches, and then sold as forged Russian masterpieces for large sums of money. Art dealers in Austria, Germany, Finland and Sweden have noted a similar trend. It is reckoned that at least 150 classical Danish paintings have been bought and mistreated in this way.
Who is faking the great paintings of Russia?


In Gjellerup, a suburb of Århus with a heavy immigrant population, an anti Islamic demonstration, by a group calling it self ‘Stop the Islamification of Denmark’ mustered 12 old age pensioners with paper flags. But still managed to cause a minor riot today when upwards of sixty youths wearing Palestinian style scarves and waving various middle eastern flags attacked the police and media with fireworks and stones in retaliation. No one was arrested and the police broke the demonstrations. TV images showed journalists being hit my a mass of stones and fire works, then being told to withdraw in the interests of public safety by the police chief.
Later on, in the southern Danish town of Svendborg, two opposing political groups (left & right wing extremists) clashed in opposing demonstrations regarding racism and immigration. The right wing group was heavily out numbered and the Police arrested 19 and broke up the demonstrations before it could get out of hand.

moif: Thus, 19 Danes were arrested in Svendborg, basically for shouting at each other, whilst in Gjellerup, 60 Muslim kids threw rocks and fireworks at the police and not one single person was arrested...


In the ongoing ‘honour killing trial’ two Pakistani witnesses have told the court that they have been threatened against testifying (they did so anyway) providing further evidence against the accused. This trial (which deals with the public murder of 18 year old Ghazala Khan by her brother) has been in headlines of the national media for the last two weeks now. Both of the Pakistani witnesses have told much the same story, though one has told that Ghazala Khan knelt and begged forgiveness in the moments before she was shot and was told, ‘it is to late for you’.

moif: There has been a lot of social violence of late. In the last week a young Turk was stabbed and killed by two Lebenese kids in Århus and the day before a Brit was near decapitated by a mentally deranged bloke in Copenhagen. According to JP, when the Lebenese kids (who turned themselves in rather than be caught by the Turks family) were presented at the preliminary inquest, they were shouted at by several female members of the Turks family telling them they were 'dead men!'.