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The right-of-centre Conservative government is expected to unveil more details of its plan to impose more severe punishments in areas with relatively high numbers of immigrants. Lawlessness risks creating “parallel societies”, the government says.
Around 10 per cent of Denmark’s 5.6 million population are immigrants, 10 times more than in 1980.
Justice minister Søren Pape Poulsen told the Berlingske newspaper: “In these areas, it is clear that the sword of justice will fall more heavily.” Violent crimes in these neighbourhoods would result in sentences or fines being doubled, he said.
“If there has been more vandalism, violence, threats and so on, then the local police chief can say that this is now a harsh penalty zone, and the penalty will be doubled when you commit a crime there.”
He denied that harsher penalties in one area could drive criminals into other districts.
“It has to be safe to live anywhere in Denmark,” he argued.
The government’s “ghettos” have populations of more than 1,000 where more than 50 per cent of residents are non-western immigrants, with the latest list including 22 districts. ...
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