Police in Denmark claim that Copenhagen and other popular cities in the country are being targeted by con artist groups dominated by Roma from Romania. This annoyance has become something of an annual migration, but this year Danish authorities are trying to beat the tricky Roma at their own game.
The Head of the Copenhagen Inner City Local Police Squad, Kim Vinholdt, admits that in the past the police could do little more than give frauds caught in the act a fine. Since most of these con artists are from Romania, an EU member state, they cannot be expelled from Denmark unless they commit a more serious crime.
The Politiken reports that to get around this legal obstacle, Danish police have decided to operate a trial program to see if these Roma can be expelled with a charge of fraud. “When we pick up tricksters we normally give them a fine for illegally using the streets for gaming. But that hasn’t been enough to have them expelled from the country. Now we will run a test case to see if we can’t get them sentenced and expelled for fraud,” Vinholdt said.
The Romanians arrive in groups each summer, and tend to play a gambling game involving three boxes and a ball. This timeless trick is played on unsuspecting tourists at local attractions. But the Roma are skilled at what they do and local police have had trouble catching them.
“Although we have increased our focus on tricksters in Copenhagen this summer, we have found it difficult to catch them as they have lookouts posted and as soon as police officers turn up, they disappear,” Vinholdt added.
[…] Roma frauds in Denmark to be run out of town […]
The inference is very true.
Iceland I love the country and (most) of its people.
Having said that, smugness and arrogance are forever prevalent features of many well educated Icelanders.
Living beyond your means and looking down your noses at others is indisputably unacceptable.
It tells me many unfortunate and undesirable things about a country that for so long was a byword for resilience and courage
So, the Icelanders can buy cheap property in Romania and Bulgaria but do not allow people from these countries to live in Iceland. Purely educated Icelanders can drink till they drop in the resorts of both countries but they still would not allow the educated people who serve them there to work in Iceland. Who do you think you are?
How Iceland would expect to be member of EU, when Romanian and Bulgarians are not allowed to work in Iceland. It’s funny.
Source: http://www.althingi.is/altext/136/s/0222.html
The Danes should imprison the con artists for the summer on a forced labour farm and *then* deport them.
It is a real danger to Danish society this misbehaviour, cheating, camping in groups and so on.Here, so far in Iceland they are not allowed to come without a reason.Their flow is Ristricted till 2112.Hoping they get richer in this time.