Denmark struggles with migrant crime wave
A migrant crime wave in Denmark has police scrambling to contain the growing problem.
Published: December 10, 2016, 10:41 am
The National Police told Berlingske that 12 566 criminal charges were filed against foreigners last year. According to Chief Jens Henrik Højbjerg, the trend is set to continue.
“As long as there are such significant welfare differences in Europe, there will be an incentive to leave one’s own country to commit crime somewhere else,” he told Berlingske in October. “There can be more to gain in the richer countries and one cannot expect that this is a phenomenon that will just stop on its own.”
Crime figures for 2015 obtained by Danish newspaper MetroXpress revealed in April that of 2 633 criminals who went before a judge, 2 049 were foreigners, some four fifths. This proportion — 78 per cent — is up from 65 per cent eight years ago.
An analysis from the Danish National Police shows from October indicates that the number of crimes committed by non-citizens more than doubled between 2009 and 2015.
Crime has always been relatively low in Denmark compared to many other European countries, but it is now importing criminals from abroad through Europe’s open borders Schengen agreement.
The very nature of migrant crime is more taxing for Danish police officers, as a spokesman for the Copenhagen force, observed: “We are spending more and more time on it and we have set aside resources to take on foreigners. It’s everything from property crime to robbery, and more organised [crime].
“Every time a foreigner commits a crime, there is additional casework. A foreign shoplifter takes a lot more resources from us than a Dane”. The report in the MetroXpress stated the biggest foreign groups in the crime statistics are now Nigerians and Romanians.
The Danish People’s Party (DF) has called the earlier figures “insane” and indicated that the party would opt for stricter border controls.
Denmark is facing an uphill battle to remain part of Europol following the Danes’ rejection of a referendum that would have put the country in closer collaboration with other EU countries on cross-border justice.
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