Preventive detention is unjust

The Danish police held around one thousand climate demonstrators on the weekend in preventive detention, leaving them sitting handcuffed on the street  for hours in freezing temperatures. Such conduct is unworthy of a constitutional state, writes the daily Kristeligt Dagblad: "It is terrifically annoying that a couple of hundred noise-makers - now being called 'climate rowdies' - can destroy the festive mood enjoyed by so many. ... In response the Danish police held around a thousand demonstrators in 'administrative' custody for up to twelve hours. ... Many of those arrested had nothing criminal about them, but were nonetheless caught up in the police dragnet. That is extremely problematic in terms of legal security. Nothing should be done to spread doubts that Denmark is an open, well-functioning democracy."

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