On Monday, the renowned hardware store Møller & Mammen closed. The chief economist says that retail across the country is “absolutely under pressure”, which means that the cityscape is changing.Monday was a sad day for store owner Jan Beregaard Pedersen.The hardware store Møller & Mammen – which has been located on the same corner of Adelgade and Gothersgade for 149 years – had to turn the key, and it happened on the watch of store owner Pedersen.
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Police found a loaded gun and an electric bicycle in an apartment in Værløse – two men have also been arrested in the case.A Swedish boy was arrested in an apartment in Værløse on Tuesday evening by the police, who found a loaded pistol in the apartment. On Wednesday, the 15-year-old boy was remanded in custody. This is according to a press release from the National Unit for Serious Crime (NSK), which states that the boy is suspected of having been hired to commit a murder in Denmark.A 27-year-old Syrian man and a 28-year-old Danish citizen have also been arrested…
The court sees no evidence that the shooting in the open street was an attempt to kill. The wrong man was injured.The article was updated at 3:24 PM with more details about the verdict.A visiting Swedish boy has been found guilty of firing seven shots at a man on a street in Kolding last summer. The victim was hit in the legs by three shots. On Wednesday, the Kolding Court sentenced the Swede to five years and six months in prison. A Danish accomplice was sentenced to six years. The Swede was 17 years old when he traveled to Denmark…
Majorities outside the government have asked the administration of the Folketing to prepare a law banning mandate buying.A majority in the Danish Parliament’s Committee on Rules of Procedure will tighten the rules on whether members of parliament can be paid to resign from their mandate, the committee’s members, excluding the government, decided on Wednesday.”The composition of the Folketing should be governed by how Danes vote on election day,” says Ole Birk Olesen, Liberal Alliance member of the committee.The development comes after it emerged that Lars Løkke Rasmussen, as chairman of the Moderates, offered then-party member Mike Fonseca 370,000 kroner to…
The sliced smoked halibut was sold in the Salling chain, but the products were recalled after listeria was found.Sliced smoked halibut sold in Netto, Bilka and Føtex is being recalled after listeria was found in the products, writes the producer Polar Salmon Hjerting Laks in a press release. Infection with listeria can cause fever, diarrhea and vomiting.The product is sold in Netto under the brand Premieur with a best-before date of July 18, 2025. In Føtex and Bilka, the halibut is sold under the brand Salling Princip with a best-before date of July 22, 2025. In all stores, the product…
Two Muslim women were in a teaching internship and, despite demands, would not shake hands with their male supervisor.When two female Muslim student teachers refused to shake hands with a male internship supervisor back in 2019, they were summoned to a meeting and their internship was immediately stopped. And that was completely by the book, the Eastern High Court ruled in a ruling. The High Court has acquitted Egelund School and Albertslund Municipality in the case, which were initially supposed to pay compensation to the women.The law firm Poul Schmith – Kammeradvokaten announced in a press release on Wednesday the…
Troels Lund Poulsen (V) gave a yellow card to the radicals in a closed meeting, but international law weighs heavier, says party leader Martin Lidegaard (R), who is anxiously awaiting the decisions of two courts.Few citizen proposals can really get the government on its knees, but that actually happened a few weeks ago.Citizen Honey Biba Beckerlee had collected the 50,000 necessary signatures, and therefore the parties in the Folketing had to vote on the petition with the headline “Denmark must stop all direct and indirect arms trade with Israel – including the F-35 cooperation”.
The Commission has previously recommended that penalties be increased for honor-related crimes. The government supports this.The government will present a bill that will make it an aggravating circumstance if an offense is motivated by honor.This is what Minister of Immigration and Integration Kaare Dybvad Bek (S) says to Berlingske.”There should be no doubt that individual freedoms and civil rights are more important than the family’s understanding of whether you are dating the right person or dressing properly,” he tells the newspaper.It is already an aggravating circumstance if the motive for a crime is due to the victim’s ethnic origin, religion…
It has not gone unnoticed that Denmark took over the EU presidency on Tuesday. Despite a long agenda, it is a topic that the international media is particularly focused on when it comes to Denmark.On the website on Tuesday, you could come across the following articles: »Denim skirts are everywhere right now. This is how you style yours« and »All the best celebrity festival style at Glastonbury 2025«. And then there was a third bid in a slightly different ballpark. A long interview with the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen (S).It’s not every day that a prime minister is…
On Wednesday evening, Zealand and Funen, among others, may be hit by heavy rain, thunder and hail, according to the DMI forecast.Wednesday may culminate with cloudbursts, hail and thunder in most of eastern Denmark.In a warning, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) warns of dangerous weather. The weather is expected to affect most of Funen, Langeland, Lolland, Falster and Zealand.According to the forecast, DMI expects thunderstorms and local cloudbursts.The showers may in some places include hail and strong gusts of wind, it says.DMI has three levels of warnings, and a risk message, which is the level below the warnings.The warning for…