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Week in review
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29 June - 5 July 2012 Scanpix/Jens Nørgaard Larsen
Flower power
THE WEEK’S MOST READ STORIES AT CPHPOST.DK Marrying the Danes Nigerian prostitutes nabbed in in red light raid Hunting the Danes Taxi murderer yearns for freedom after 26 years Where to go when your shirt gets stuck to your back
FROM OUR ARCHIVES TEN YEARS AGO. Danish Newspaper Publishers’ Association files a landmark complaint against Newsbooster, a Copenhagen-based internet news service providing ‘deep links’ to other websites. FIVE YEARS AGO. One of Denmark’s biggest music stars, the rapper and actress Natasja Saad, is killed in a car accident outside Kingston, Jamaica.
Some 15,000 people visited the Botanical Gardens last week to witness its specimen of the world’s largest flower, titan arum, bloom for the first time in nine years. The Amorphophallus titanum (‘giant misshapen phallus’) measured 50cm across and 130cm tall. It bloomed for several days.
swings have been torn down, and critics have called it a poster boy for bad taste – but the bicycle paths traversing the park become dangerously slippery when wet. The park is made up of three sections, named black, red and green, and features 121 pieces of art as well as trees and plants from 60 different countries.
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New rape case
In the second trial of the man known as the ‘Amager Attacker’, Marcel Lychau Hansen was convicted by Copenhagen City Court this week for planning another rape after he was already behind bars. The indictment states that Hansen smuggled his semen out of his cell in envelopes and asked his son
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to attack and possibly rape a woman and plant the sperm on her body. In December, Hansen was sentenced to life in prison for raping six women and killing two over 20 years, Hansen believed that the presence of his DNA on a victim after he was behind bars would prove his innocence.
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colourbox
The brand new Superkilen Park opened last Friday in Nørrebro to a subdued and sparse crowd that had been thinned by terrible weather. But perhaps the poor weather was fitting for the opening of a much-heralded park already fraught with problems. The colourful park has not only experienced vandalism – the
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Rain pain
ONE YEAR AGO. Danish citizen and activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja is sentenced to life in prison after participating in prodemocracy demonstrations in Bahrain
Third best
For the second year in a row, Copenhagen has ranked third among the world’s best cities to live according to the Most Liveable City chart published by the lifestyle magazine, Monocle. In 2008, Copenhagen was at the top of Monocle’s list. The magazine praised Copenhagen’s city lifestyle and improving in-
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frastructure, and its aim to be carbon neutral by 2025. But it said that the business climate would have to improve for Copenhagen to once again become number one. It was especially concerned about Denmark’s high tax burden and the number of companies that were moving their production abroad.
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