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After drone flights shut down several airports, Danes feel a sharper need to prep for crisis. Two in three have either stocked up or plan to build an emergency stash.

Danes are stocking up: »They used to laugh at us preppers«

Bernt Christian Godtfredsen has been prepping his whole life. Now he’s opened a shop selling prepper gear in a village west of Randers. Foto: Privatfoto
Bernt Christian Godtfredsen has been prepping his whole life. Now he’s opened a shop selling prepper gear in a village west of Randers. Foto: Privatfoto
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In the village of Ulstrup, west of Randers, Bernt Christian Godtfredsen bought an old hair salon this summer and transformed the 150-square-meter space into a prepper store, selling headlamps, water purifiers, and field rations, among other things.

»Sales are going really well. We get 20 to 25 customers a day, and I could actually make a living selling prepper goods«, says Bernt Christian Godtfredsen, who also works as a bodyguard.

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