The case is one of the first against a suspected so-called facilitator or middleman, who is accused of hiring mainly young Swedes to carry out contract killings in Denmark.He was guarded by two officers when he was led into the Copenhagen District Court in handcuffs. It was one day in January this year, he is 22 years old, a Swedish citizen, and at the time he was charged with complicity in attempted murder in a case where another Swede, a 16-year-old, was sitting in the dock in the courtroom charged with attempted murder.The 16-year-old young man was sentenced to six…
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A European committee has assessed that the eye disease Naion is a rare side effect of the use of semaglutide.The Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk does not believe that there is a connection between the eye disease Naion and the use of semaglutide.The company states this in a written response to DR.”Based on all available data sources, Novo Nordisk has concluded that the data do not show a reasonable probability of a causal relationship between treatment with semaglutide and the development of Naion,” it says in the response to DR.The European Adverse Reactions Committee Prac has otherwise assessed that the…
Two 16-year-olds at Skive Festival had to be placed in an induced coma on Thursday after ingesting the drug fentanyl.The Danish Health Authority is closely following the situation at Skive Festival, where two young people overdosed.The board writes to Ritzau.”Throughout the day, we have been in continuous contact with the hospital, the poison control center, the forensic chemistry institute and the police,” the agency writes.Two young festival participants had to be placed in an induced coma on Thursday after ingesting the drug fentanyl.They may have inadvertently ingested the drug in a drink, police said earlier Friday.The two, a girl from…
Committee to investigate chickenpox vaccine used in Denmark for its risk of encephalitis.Two chickenpox vaccines to be investigated for their association with encephalitis.The Danish Medicines Agency writes this in a press release.The investigation was initiated by the European Committee for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products for Human Use (PRAC) after a child in Poland lost his life to encephalitis.The child was vaccinated with one vaccine, Varilrix, which is not marketed in Denmark. However, the other vaccine, Varivax, is.It is already clear from the two chickenpox vaccines, Varilrix and Varivax, that in rare cases there may be a risk of encephalitis.The…
The case is one of the first against a suspected so-called facilitator or middleman, who is accused of hiring mainly young Swedes to carry out contract killings in Denmark.He was guarded by two officers when he was led into the Copenhagen District Court in handcuffs. It was one day in January this year, he is 22 years old, a Swedish citizen, and at the time he was charged with complicity in attempted murder in a case where another Swede, a 16-year-old, was sitting in the dock in the courtroom charged with attempted murder.The 16-year-old young man was sentenced to six…
Revenue at Tesla’s subsidiary in Denmark plunged last year to 5.3 billion kroner from 8.1 billion.Challenges are gradually piling up for the American electric car manufacturer Tesla, which has recently seen sales plunge in the European market.This also applies to the Danish subsidiary, Tesla Motors Denmark ApS.The Danish company’s revenue fell last year to 5.3 billion kroner, which is 2.8 billion kroner less than the year before, when revenue was 8.1 billion kroner.This is shown in the company’s annual report for 2024, according to Børsen.At this time, the company does not expect to reverse the trend this year. Tesla itself…
The fact that the decade ‘sixties’ can be spelled in two ways means that students get higher grades on the final exam.A number of students got fewer correct answers on their 9th grade final exam in Danish than they should have.This is what the trade magazine Folkeskolen writes.The spelling of the decade ‘sixties’ was allegedly the cause of the problems.According to the trade journal, several students had written ’60s’, which is also an approved spelling according to the Spelling Dictionary.But the computer system did not accept it, registering the spelling as an error.For some students, this has meant that they…
A jury in the Court in Nykøbing Falster must decide whether a local man raped and attempted to kill a girl.More than 25 years after a brutal assault on a girl in Bøtø on Falster, charges have been brought against a 57-year-old man.The prosecution announced this on Friday.The indictment concerns a crime that took place on Bøtø Strand on August 4, 1999.A then 11-year-old girl was raped, and the prosecution believes that the defendant also tried to kill the girl.It is DNA traces and new possibilities for so-called family tracing that are the reason why the case is coming to…
Copenhagen Police have filed charges against a 22-year-old man who allegedly participated in planning five murders.A man has been charged with five counts of recruiting mainly Swedish teenagers to commit murders in Denmark in exchange for payment, Copenhagen Police announced on Friday.Some of the young people who traveled by plane or train to Denmark last spring and summer were only 15 and 16 years old.The accused organizer is 22 years old and has been in custody for several months. Now the prosecution has decided to bring a case against him in court.In all five cases, he is accused of recruiting…
Trump’s tariff war is creating inflation in the US and deflation in Europe and Denmark. This opens the way for even lower interest rates ahead.On Thursday this week, the European Central Bank (ECB), as expected, cut its key interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 2.0 percent. With the cut, which was the eighth in a row, the ECB has halved the rate since it peaked at 4 percent last summer.A few hours later, the Nationalbank followed suit and lowered its leading interest rate, the certificate of deposit rate, by also 0.25 percentage points, so that it is now down…