None of the 20 foreigners, who are in Denmark on tolerated stay permits because they cannot be expelled to their home countries, have been ordered to report daily at the Sandholm asylum centre since the Act was adopted by Parliament six weeks ago, according to Information.

Not even the person the law was named after – a Tunisian that the Security Service claimed had plans to kill the Mohammed cartoonist Kurt Westergaard – has had to change his life as a result of the Act.

Lives with his family in Århus
SC only has to visit Sandholm once every Tuesday and every second Thursday. Apart from that he spends his time with his Danish-born wife and their two children at a housing estate in Århus.

“I just arrived from Århus and I am going back again this afternoon,” said SC when Information visited Sandholm last Tuesday.

Two other foreigners - Turkmen of Iraqi origin – whom the Security and Intelligence Service say endanger the safety of the country, told Information that they do not have report to Sandholm more frequently than previously.

DPP demands explanation
The Danish People’s Party, which helped secure a parliamentary majority for the Act, has demanded an immediate explanation from the integration minister.

“I am very surprised that nothing has happened despite such a swift passage of the bill. Out of consideration for the safety of Kurt Westergaard and the efforts of the Security Service, this is extremely unsatisfactory,” says the DPP Integration Spokesman Peter Skaarup who has demanded an explanation as to why the requirement for daily reporting has not been applied.

Morten Østergaard of the Social Liberals does not entirely agree. “The Tunisian Act was mainly aimed at the public. If the safety of the nation was at risk, the authorities would probably have acted more rapidly,” he says.

Integration Minister Birthe Rønn Hornbech declined to comment on the issue as did the National Police Foreigners Department.