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Denmark: Norrebro cases

01 January 1994

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It has emerged that the number of police injured in Copenhagen on 18 May 1993 during an anti-Maastricht demonstration were far less that initially stated (see Statewatch vol 3 no 3). At the time the police announced that 103 officers were injured and had to be treated in hospital. However, according to Det Fri Aktuelt (a social democrat newspaper) no more than 50 officers went to the hospital emergency department. According to one of the doctors only 5 or 6 had more than trifling injuries and the rest should never have been registered.

The court cases against demonstrators arrested on 18 May 1993 are scheduled to start in March. Originally the police said they would charge all 11 young people hit by police bullets. However, the Public Prosecutor in Copenhagen says that six of them will not be charged. Their defence lawyer is to demand compensation for injuries and arrest. Three of the injured have been charged together with 35 other demonstrators. The charges laid are participation in the confrontation and violence against the police.

The Copenhagen police have released parts of their own internal investigation which claim that several of the shots fired into the crowd injuring people happened by accident. They were, it is claimed, intended to be warning shots that went too low because the police officers stumbled or were hit by stones from the crowd. Little evidence to back this claim is in the hours of film made by TV STOP and viewed by Statewatch.

Information, 29.11.93; Statewatch contributor (Copenhagen).

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