For the second time in a month, Copenhagen Police have been convicted of violating human rights by – without specific reason – strip-searching a person who had had a happy night out on the town.
It was 4 a.m. on a September day almost two years ago when a 20-year-old man was on his way home from a city tour in inner Copenhagen with his friend. Outside the LA Tequila Bar, his friend got chatting to some girls, while the young man himself went into a basement shop to buy a slice of pizza.
There was a commotion when the girls’ boyfriends came out. The doormen asked a couple of police officers for help to calm the mood, and the two officers chose to pull the 20-year-old, who had come up with his pizza in his hand, and his friend aside.
