The YMCA’s Soldiers’ Mission has received millions to pay and train employees who are sent on international missions. But experts estimate that the money has also been used for other purposes. The YMCA is silent.When Tana Pedersen went to Latvia for the YMCA’s Soldiers’ Mission, she looked forward to opening a soldiers’ home where the deployed Danes could get some much-needed respite.But after the six-month-long broadcast in 2022 and 2023, she looks at the Christian organization with great skepticism.
Author: Denmark Review
Copenhagen Sprint brings together people from all over the country for a folk bike race in the streets of Copenhagen. Politiken has been involved.”You have to stop destroying the fence,” shouts a volunteer in a reflective yellow vest on H.C. Andersens Boulevard. A little lower down, he continues swearing. The four-lane road has been emptied of cars, and now there are only metal barriers as far as the eye can see.This Saturday, the new Copenhagen Sprint cycling race rolls through the capital for the first time. A World Tour race for the world’s best riders.
Parachute and emergency parachute became entangled during a 21-year-old man’s jump from a height of 1,000 meters.A 21-year-old man from Gentofte is in critical condition after a parachute accident on Saturday at Skinderholm Airfield near Herning.The man has been transferred to Aarhus University Hospital, Andreas Andersen, duty officer at the Central and West Jutland Police, told TV Midtvest.According to the duty officer, something went wrong during the jump, so the parachute and the emergency parachute became entangled in each other.The man was with a group when he jumped from a height of 1000 meters.”It was possible to talk to him…
A 20-year-old man has been arrested in a case where a 64-year-old man died after a violent incident on Refshaleøen.A 64-year-old man died on Saturday as a result of a violent incident committed on Friday on Refshaleøen in Copenhagen.This is reported by the Copenhagen Police on the social media X.The police arrested a suspected perpetrator on Friday. The man is 20 years old.According to Michael Andersen, head of duty at the Copenhagen Police, the violent incident took place at the entrance and exit to the Copenhell festival, which is currently being held on Refshaleøen.The arrested person will be produced for…
Every third lawyer has experienced threats to their life and harassment. Raising the index finger and mediation can slow down the problem.The country’s lawyers hope that the police will be willing to move quickly with a clearly raised index finger when citizens have threatened lawyers’ lives.Mediation meetings can also help to de-escalate conflicts.This is stated by the chairman of the Danish Bar Council’s Criminal Law Committee, lawyer Mikael Skjødt.A study last fall mapped the phenomenon.Approximately one in three lawyers who work in family or criminal cases said that they have experienced threats and harassment within the past two years.Recently, a…
Person attacked with a sharp object received life-saving first aid on the sidewalk near Odense Banegård Center.A man in his 30s was subjected to particularly dangerous violence when he was attacked near the train station in Odense on Friday evening.This is the assessment of a judge at the Court in Odense, who on Saturday decided to remand the person arrested in the case.The crime was committed with a ‘sharp object’, the police have previously stated.According to the police’s suspicions, the arrested 27-year-old man tried to kill the other man, but the judge finds in his preliminary assessment that it was…
Police patrol was able to arrest the suspect just two minutes after the report early Saturday morning.A judge in Holbæk has decided to remand a man whom the police charge with attempting to rape a woman in an apartment in Kalundborg early Saturday morning.This is reported by the Central and West Zealand Police.The police received a call at three o’clock from a woman in her early 20s. A man had entered her apartment and had begun to grope her, the chief of police said.After just two minutes, a patrol was able to arrest a suspect in the case.The man, who…
Copenhagen Sprint brings together people from all over the country for a folk bike race in the streets of Copenhagen. Politiken has been involved.”You have to stop destroying the fence,” shouts a volunteer in a reflective yellow vest on H.C. Andersens Boulevard. A little lower down, he continues swearing. The four-lane road has been emptied of cars, and now there are only metal barriers as far as the eye can see.This Saturday, the new Copenhagen Sprint cycling race rolls through the capital for the first time. A World Tour race for the world’s best riders.
Fewer transitions create better well-being for children. That is why a majority in the Municipality of Copenhagen has initiated a pilot scheme where children are allowed to stay in kindergarten until the start of school.Three months can feel like an eternity in the life of a six-year-old. Time can stretch so far that children have difficulty imagining it will ever end.This is one of the reasons why SF and the Red-Green Alliance, together with a majority of parties in the Municipality of Copenhagen, have initiated a pilot scheme where the so-called May children are kept in a safe environment in…
The police are investigating at Odense Banegård Center after an ‘incident’. Time horizon is unknown.Fyn Police are present at Odense Banegård Center on Friday evening in connection with an “incident”.The police district writes this in a post on platform X.The light rail is closed in connection with on-site investigations, and the time horizon is unknown, it further states.TV2 Fyn writes that the police are “massively” present on Østre Stationsvej at Odense Banegård Center.Due to the incident, Odense Light Rail has suspended operations between the stations Kongensgade and Benedikts Plads.Replacement buses have been deployed, the media outlet writes.ritzau