Today’s big topic: Woman Is in line for Danish citizenship, but Liberal Alliance has now turned detective
Liberal Alliance party leader Alex Vanopslagh during Parliament’s opening debate last week. He focused in particular on attacking Socialdemokratiet for wanting to reintroduce a bill that would grant Danish citizenship to 2,055 people.
What’s happening?
If there was a single theme that dominated Thursday’s opening debate in Folketinget, it was the government’s decision to reintroduce a bill from January granting Danish citizenship to more than 2,000 people without first testing their democratic convictions.
In response to the repeated attacks from the center-right parties, political spokesman of Socialemokratiet (S), Rasmus Stoklund, urged the opposition to speak up if it found potential problems among the 2,055 applicants in total. Liberal Alliance (LA) is now doing just that.
The party has been running its own searches and conducting its own screening of the people named in the bill. And in one case, they say, it was like hitting the jackpot.
At least, party staff say they have found enough posts from a female applicant for party leader Alex Vanopslagh (LA) to want the woman summoned for a meeting with the Naturalization Committee in Folketinget to test whether she is an Islamist who praises Hamas on social media.
Why it matters!
Liberal Alliance party staff say they have found enough posts from a female applicant for party leader Alex Vanopslagh (LA) to want the woman summoned for a meeting with the Naturalization Committee in Folketinget to test whether she is an Islamist who praises Hamas on social media.
The party is ready to call for the applicants removal from the bill, as they believe she may not be fit to gain Danish citizenship. The woman herself rejects the accusations of being a supporter of Hamas and claims she is against killing of anay kind.
This case feeds into the larger debate on how the granting of Danish citizenships should unfold, which has dominated the political debate in recent years. It has become more and more broadly accepted, especially among the center and right wing parties, to want to conduct interviews screening the democratic convictions of applicants for Danish citizenship.
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In other news
–Danish Health Authority steps into unusual case at Rigshospitalet
The Danish Health Authority is responsible for ensuring that the most advanced treatments can be carried out in a professionally sound manner. That is why the agency is now stepping into a case in which Rigshospitalet has sent three senior consultants home with a view to dismissing them because of collaboration problems. The doctors have highly specialized expertise and work in the highly specialized Department of Transplantation and Diseases of the Digestive System.
–Denmark’s oldest person sets record
Today, Kirsten Schwalbe of Struer will enter the history books. At 112 years and 218 days, she becomes the longest-lived Dane ever. She also joins the list of Europe’s 10 oldest living people. Europe’s oldest living person is Britain’s Ethel Caterham, 117, who is also the world’s oldest living person. Kirsten Schwalbe takes the Danish record from Karla Lindholm Jensen of Herning, who died in 2020.
– Owners put FC København and Parken up for sale
Parken Sport & Entertainment A/S is ready to sell the football club FC København. In a statement, the company said it is exploring “strategic options” for the group’s football activities. One option is a divestment of the Superliga club FC København, the club’s women’s team, and its ownership stake in the Swedish club FC Rosengård. Parken Ejendomme A/S could also be part of a future deal. The company includes the Parken stadium and its adjoining office towers.
Talk of town:Alleged CPR hacker offers to help Denmark – on one condition
A simple piece of software and the password ’123456’ were apparently all it took to steal 8.7 million CPR records. Now the alleged hacker is offering to help Denmark strengthen its IT security, provided Danish police guarantee not to prosecute him or her.
The hacker has written that in an encrypted message to Politiken.
»But as far as I understand, that kind of guarantee isn’t possible under the law«, the person adds.
The offer is highly unusual, though not unheard of in hacker circles, where private companies like Meta, Apple and Google offer both jobs and so-called »bug bounties«. Those are rewards paid to ethical hackers who discover ’bugs’, which are vulnerabilities, in a company’s IT security. The biggest payouts can run to more than 10 million kroner.
Unlike countries like the United States, Danish law does not allow criminals to strike immunity deals. However, it is possible to receive a sentence reduction or even a suspension of the sentence, if the convicted part cooperates in solving the case or admits to the crime.
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This newsletter features stories originally published in Danish. AI was used to shorten and translate the articles into English, after which a member of the editorial staff reviewed and refined the content.