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Danmarks kontroversielle beslutning om at aflive alle 15 millioner opdrættede mink for at forhindre spredningen af ​​muteret COVID-19 blev erklæret ulovlig og har siden udviklet sig til et skyldspil, der involverer landets toppolitikere.

Statsministeren risikerer nu at blive stillet for en rigsret efter den såkaldte Minkgate, der ses som en af ​​Danmarks største politiske skandaler i moderne tid.


Kommentar: Og de har et par andre skandaler at vælge imellem:

Alle sms'er fra de dage, hvor statsminister Mette Frederiksen traf den omstridte beslutning om at slagte alle landets minkbestande, er slettet, oplyser TV2.

Beslutningen om at dræbe 15 millioner mink for at stoppe en muteret COVID-variant af frygt for, at den ville gribe ind i vaccinationsprocessen, udløste kontrovers, da den blev fundet forfatningsstridig - dansk lov støtter ikke drab på sunde dyr. Efterfølgende pegede statsminister Frederiksen på den daværende fødevareminister og partifælle Mogens Jensen, der forlod sin post på grund af affæren.


Kommentar: Delvist oversat af Sott.net fra Danish PM faces impeachment for deleting ALL her messages over illegal & unnecessary slaughter of 15 million mink after claims they may spread Covid

Kommentar fra udlandet: Efter at den danske regering ikke kom igennem med en lov om tvungen vaccination, løj for offentligheden for at implementere drakoniske og uberettigede lockdowns og derefter fordoblede fængselstiden for lockdown-demonstranter, annoncerede den for nylig, at den ikke længere anser Covid for at være en 'socialt kritisk Sygdom' og har til hensigt at droppe alle restriktioner; Man spekulerer på, om dette skridt, der ville trodse den etablerede konsensus om håndhævelse af vaccinepas, vil have nogen effekt på statsministerens fremtid:

However, a "mink commission" appointed earlier this year to investigate the case has collected over a million documents and emails to map out the course of events. The commission requested the prime minister's text messages from the days on which the decision was made, yet they appeared to be unavailable. Mette Frederiksen's staff replied that the messages are automatically deleted after 30 days.

According to law professor Frederik Waag of the University of Southern Denmark, this can be criminal in and of itself.

"If you delete everything without even considering journaling, it becomes illegal, because text messages are generally considered as regular letters", Waag told the newspaper Ekstra Bladet.

Following a media uproar, Mette Frederiksen pledged that the ministry will try and restore the deleted text messages and review its guidelines.

Yet, Danish Radio obtained text messages showing how Frederiksen's right hand, Secretary of State Barbara Bertelsen, was pressuring former department chief at the Food Ministry Henrik Studsgaard to let former minister Mogens Jensen take the fall for the mink affair.

According to Danish Radio, the messages remained intact on Studsgaard's phone, but were deleted on Bertelsen's.

"Your minister's only chance to turn this around is to accept it sincerely and wholeheartedly. Any remnant of previous obvious attempts to pass it on to others - including the government at large and thus the prime minister - will hit him even harder", Berthelsen wrote in one of the messages, as quoted by Danish Radio.

To emphasise the gravity, Berthelsen reportedly underscored that it is about "the life of the government".

In the course of this autumn and early winter, a total 61 interrogations will be held with ministry employees, government officials, industry representatives, and ministers. Last on the list, the prime minister herself will testify on 9 December.

"The job description is written based on the notion of a 'main suspect' - namely the prime minister", Michael Gøtze, professor of administrative law at the University of Copenhagen, said earlier in October.

Last year, the drama took yet another grim plot twist after the mink, buried in shallow graves one metre into the ground, began to swell with gas and penetrate through, spurring morbid jokes about "zombie mink". This year, the work of digging up and disposing of the last rotting mink from their makeshift graves was completed. Experts will now investigate whether the carcasses caused environmental damage and whether there is a need for further action.