Today’s big topic: She had hoped for support from a Supreme Court ruling, but is now facing a demand for expulsion
What’s happening?
Last week, Nadine, a 30-year-old woman from Funen, received a letter from the Regional State Prosecutor in Copenhagen.
The reason was that she is due to appear before the Eastern High Court on Thursday. because she wrote a comment on Politiken’s Facebook page beneath the headline: »7,000 children have died in Gaza. Have we looked away for too long?«, three years ago.
Nadine wrote: »There has been war for 73 years, but only NOW is Hamas truly striking back. For good reason! Any people would do the same«.
That comment has carried a heavy cost for the woman from Funen, who lives in a small town in northern Funen with her two daughters, ages 4 and 6.
After intense political pressure in Parliament’s Naturalization Committee, the previous government (SVM) decided to scrutinize Nadine’s past and concluded that it had been a mistake for Nadine, at age 9, to have been granted Danish citizenship in 2006 when she was adopted by the Danish man who had married her German mother. Nadine was stripped of her Danish citizenship.
When she appears in the Eastern High Court on Thursday, she will do so with what she describes as an alarming »notification« from the Regional State Prosecutor. »The prosecution reserves the right to bring a separate case on expulsion before the district court«, the letter to Nadine said.
Why it matters!
Politiken asked the Ministry of Immigration and Integration how it could maintain that this is not »disproportionately intrusive« when it means that Nadine is now being threatened with expulsion from the country precisely because she lost her citizenship. Is there anything more intrusive for a young woman than being separated from her small children?
The ministry replied in an email that it »cannot comment on ongoing legal proceedings«.
Eva Ersbøll, a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, says that the loss of citizenship has already had »enormous consequences« for Nadine in the form of »all the uncertainty she has had to live with for several years«.
»It is my clear view that under E.U. law there is no basis for expelling her. But the threat alone can be intrusive«, Eva Ersbøll says.
As early as last year, after Nadine had been deregistered as a Danish citizen, the Regional State Prosecutor asked the police to investigate whether it would be possible to expel her.
Still curious? Read the full article here.
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Talk of town: Many people have digital ghost ships in their homes. Are you one of them?
It sounds clever to be able to control your heater, washing machine or robotic lawn mower remotely with an app, so the products can be switched on even when you are not physically at home.
But every time you have a device in your home that is connected to the internet, there is, in principle, a risk that it could be hacked.
That is the explanation from Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, a professor of cybersecurity at the Technical University of Denmark.
He believes Monday’s attack on refrigeration and freezer systems in European supermarkets is a timely reminder that people should generally make sure they maintain »good cyber hygiene« at home.
»Many people are not necessarily aware that their refrigerators, cameras or printers are connected to the internet and could potentially pose a security risk«, he says.
There are four steps, which you can personally take to protect your home and devices:
Take stock and update: »The first step is to sit down with a piece of paper and write down all the devices connected to your internet. The second step is to update them with the latest software. What we saw with Monday’s attack on refrigeration and freezer systems in supermarkets was that updates actually existed that might have prevented the attacks. It was just that no one had updated the systems«.
If you are still curious, you can find three more steps and read the full article here.
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.