Former Danish Immigration Minister Inger Stojberg has been sentenced to 60 days in prison in the case brought against her to the Supreme Court.
The prosecutor dropped the case for four months of unconditional imprisonment, so the sentence is lighter than what the prosecution wanted.
– I’m very, very surprised. I must say that, I think it is Danish values that are lost today, I am not alone, it is Danish values. “I hope everyone will do as I did, and I will take my punishment without bending my neck,” Stojberg said after the verdict was announced.
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The court concluded that she had acted with intent. Punishment is unconditional. The judgment cannot be appealed.
The case began on September 2 and continued until November 25, 30 days after the trial.
It was a majority in Parliament that decided in February to place Stojberg before the sixth Supreme Court in Denmark’s history.
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A clear and correct evaluation
– What is crucial for us is that the court came to the conclusion that Inger-Stogberg is guilty, and that it is premeditated. “Whether it’s two months or four months, that’s not critical to us,” says Prosecutor John Lauritzen.
He notes that 25 of the 26 judges agree with the ruling.
“We’re glad it’s pretty much a unanimous Supreme Court,” says Lauritzen.
Child marriage issue
Stojberg was accused of having been responsible for carrying out and maintaining illegal instructions that asylum seekers who were a married couple should divorce, if one of them was a minor.
The former liberal politician resigned from the party when he voted for the Supreme Court in a case against it. She referred to the case as the case of the child bride and did not admit any guilt.
More than 20 pairs of tags
A commission of inquiry stated that the instructions she gave in 2016 when she was Minister of Immigration and Integration were illegal and far-reaching, and that they violated the Human Rights Convention.
The instructions meant that asylum-seeking spouses should not be allowed to live together if one or both of them were under 18 years old. The instructions, which affected 23 couples, turned out to be illegal.
A total of 22 or 23 divorced couples. In most cases, the couples were of relatively the same age.
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