Denmark - Right wing wants criminal foreigners deported

Danish People's Party calling for easier deportation rules after acquittal of gang leader

It should be easier to deport criminal foreigners, DF leader Pia Kjærsgaard argues (Photo: Scanpix)

Pia Kjærsgaard, the leader of the Danish People’s Party (DF), is demanding that changes be made to immigration laws so that it is easier to deport foreigners who have committed crimes.

The call comes after a gang leader in the troubled Vollsmose district in Odense escaped deportation to his native Lebanon after receiving a six-year jail sentence for drug dealing, threats and other petty crimes. Fez Fez, as the man is called, avoided deportation out of concern for his wife and his eight children.

“We’re a complete laughing stock now,” Kjærsgaard told Jyllands-Posten newspaper. “He avoids deportation because he has eight children - would he have been deported if he only had six kids? The judges have gone soft and no longer live up to the political demands for exportation and punishment.”

Kjærsgaard believes that Fez Fez will serve as a negative role model for young immigrant boys in Vollsmose because he was not deported back to Lebanon following his crimes.

Søren Pind, the immigration minister, is now waiting to see whether the ruling will be appealed. If there is no appeal, or if an appeal proves unsuccessful, Pind pledged legal interventions.

“For people who do everything they can not to become part of the Danish community, I will use any democratic measure available to make sure they will not continue to stay here. And this case is a clear example of just that,” said Pind.

In related news, DF has proposed that all newborn male babies and all non-EU citizens who move to Denmark should be registered on the DNA register.

This is meant as an alternative to a nationwide DNA register, which Lars Barfoed, the justice minister, recently rejected. This compromise is based on DF’s claim that men, and particularly men from non-EU countries, are responsible for a vast majority of all crimes in the country.

“Those are the cold facts,” said DF justice spokesperson Peter Skaarup. “And if the government doesn’t want to join in, then we will look for ways of finding a majority without them.”

This proposal was, however, soundly rejected by both sides of the political spectrum.

Source: The Copenhagen Post Online.