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SUPPLEMENT
Highlights this month include That Theatre’s ‘Proof’, the immigrant art festival Artival, Culture Night and lots of English-language dramas
Efterskole – a uniquely Danish way of learning for life. Read all about it here
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DANISH NEWS IN ENGLISH CPHPOST.DK VOL 19 ISSUE 29 23 September - 13 October 2016
NEWS Christiania wakes up to a new future after a tumultuous week
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NEWS
ROGUES IN VOGUE
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Euthanasia precedent? Are suspended sentences the new standard for mercy killings?
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Car burnings a cry for help, claims youth worker Vehicle arson compared to US race riots in the 1960s CHRISTIAN WENANDE
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BUSINESS Well placed to thrive with the emerging economies
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Speedy, sweaty, smelly? So why exactly do they call them the S-trains?
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T LEAST 75 vehicles have now been set alight in Greater Copenhagen since August 21. Barely a district or suburb in the capital has been left alone, and there have been reports of arson attacks as far away as Ringstead. The weekend before last, eight vehicles were targeted in a carpark in Albertslund on Saturday night, and then another eight set on fire at a vehicle in-
spection centre in Brøndby 24 hours later. Nobody has been injured yet, but despite one arrest, the police are no closer to stopping the fires or identifying who is responsible. A silent protest RAY ANDREWS, a teacher at Ishøj Ungdomskole who is heavily involved in local community efforts to integrate young immigrants, is in little doubt: it’s a cry for help. “It’s young people with an immigrant background expressing themselves in a destructive manner. It’s a kind of silent pro-
test,” Andrews told CPH POST. Andrews, who grew up in New York and San Diego, is adamant there is a direct correlation between the car burnings and the race riots that took place in Watts, Los Angeles in 1965.
“It’s not new immigrants doing this. They are stuck in a hard place between their parents’ culture and religion and Danish life.”
Like graffiti “THEY FEEL like their options are limited; they don’t have jobs, a future, and all they get is disrespect, especially with Islam being kicked around like it has been. Burning cars is kind of like graffiti. But just more ignorant, built on anger and used as a form of release,” continued Andrews.
Similar to 2008 ABOUT eight years ago, Andrews remembers, a number of cars were burned in Ishøj – an operation by local drug dealers to warn off the police. On that occasion, the City Police cracked down hard using tactics of zero tolerance, handing out several beatings, and the trouble-makers quickly dissipated.
Friendly fire fiasco
Textbook cock-up
The invisible youth
Graveyard robbers?
TWO DANISH F-16 fighter jets took part in the coalition attack that reportedly killed 60 Syrian soldiers by mistake on September 17. The attack on a “presumed IS position”, which involved aircraft from other nations and also injured 100 soldiers, was stopped after the Russians reported a Syrian military position had been hit.
A DANISH high school textbook published by Lindhardt & Ringhof includes an erroneous map of the Cold War era that places northern Norway, Finland and Turkey in the Soviet Union and hands Schleswig-Holstein over to East Germany. The fictional map was mistakenly sourced from the Deviant Art website.
PEOPLE aged 18-25 had a lower average income in 2014 compared to 2000, according to Danmarks Statistik. In contrast, people in their 60s have seen their income rise by 30.9 percent and their net income rise by 200,000 kroner. The under40s have seen a 73,000 dip. One expert told Metroxpress he fears for the “invisible youth”.
SCAVENGER divers are taking metal from ships that sunk during the Battle of Jutland 100 years ago. Under British law, the wrecks are regarded as graveyards and are off limits. Meanwhile, divers have discovered the wreck of the British cruiser HMS Warrior – up to 27 sea miles away from where it was last officially located.
LANGUAGE SCHOOL FAIR MEET REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE SCHOOLS IN COPENHAGEN AND CHOOSE THE SCHOOL THAT SUITS YOU!
WHEN? Monday October 3rd 2016 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm WHERE? International House Copenhagen, Gyldenløvesgade 11, ground floor, 1600 Copenhagen V