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Woman ‘executed’ by ex-husband: police

Police suspect that the man who shot his ex-wife in broad daylight in a Copenhagen suburb did so with the full intention of killing her.

Published: 10 July 2014 22:21 CEST
Woman 'executed' by ex-husband: police
The woman was shot in Hvidore Butikstorv on Thursday afternoon. Photo: Ole Mik/Scanpix
Thursday afternoon’s fatal shooting of a 28-year-old woman was an “execution” by her ex-husband, police say. 
 
The woman was shot in a public square in the Copenhagen suburb of Hvidore. 
 
“It was a violent episode. To my mind, it is a definitive execution when you fire so many shots. Then you are more are less certain that the person in question is going to die,” police spokesman Carsten Johanson told Danmarks Radio. 
 
According to the police, the woman had numerous gun shot wounds to her chest. She died shortly after the incident. 
 
Police arrested the woman’s 33-year-old ex-husband roughly three hours after the shooting. Police also found what they believe was the murder weapon. 
 
According to DR, authorities will carry out an autopsy on Friday to discover how many times the woman was shot.
 
The suspect is due to face preliminary questioning on Friday. 
 
Both the victim and the suspect are subscribed as being Turkish Danes. They have one child together. 

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Nordic justice ministers meet tech giants on gangs hiring ‘child soldiers’

The justice ministers of Denmark, Sweden and Norway are to meet representatives of the tech giants Google, Meta, Snapchat and TikTok, to discuss how to stop their platforms being used by gang criminals in the region.

Published: 20 September 2024 10:37 CEST
Nordic justice ministers meet tech giants on gangs hiring 'child soldiers'

Denmark’s justice minister, Peter Hummelgaard, said in a press release that he hoped to use the meeting on Friday afternoon to discuss how to stop social media and messaging apps being used by gang criminals, who Danish police revealed earlier this year were using them to recruit so-called “child soldiers” to carry out gang killings.  

“We have seen many examples of how the gangs are using social media and encrypted messaging services to plan serious crimes and recruit very young people to do their dirty work,” Hummelgaard said. “My Nordic colleagues and I agree that a common front is needed to get a grip on this problem.”

As well as recruitment, lists have been found spreading on social media detailing the payments on offer for various criminal services.   

Hummelgaard said he would “insist that the tech giants live up to their responsibilities so that their platforms do not act as hotbeds for serious crimes” at the meeting, which will take place at a summit of Nordic justice ministers in Uppsala, Sweden.

In August, Hummelgaard held a meeting in Copenhagen with Sweden’s justice minister, Gunnar Strömmer, at which the two agreed to work harder to tackle cross-border organised crime, which has seen a series of Swedish youth arrested in Denmark after being recruited to carry out hits in the country. 

According to a press release from the Swedish justice ministry, the morning will be spent discussing how to combat the criminal economy and particularly organised crime in ports, with a press release from Finland’s justice ministry adding that the discussion would also touch on the “undue influence on judicial authorities” from organised crime groups. 

The day will end with a round table discussion with Ronald S Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, on how anti-Semitism and hate crimes against Jews can be prevented and fought in the Nordic region. 

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