Page 2 - Thomas Monberg News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Outraged residents say they will resist a "racist" Danish law which allows large numbers of people to be evicted from social housing in areas where the authorities say there are too many immigrants."Eighty percent of the Danish population doesn't have any personal contact with ethnic minorities," said sociologist Aydin Soei, an expert on disadvantaged areas, "and an even smaller number of Danes have set foot in one of these areas." 

Mjolnerparken residents are suing Denmark, with the European Court of Justice due to rule in the coming months.

'It's straight up racism,' said Jawad, a doctor from Mjolnerparken in central Copenhagen, which is surrounded by rapidly gentrifying areas.

Outraged residents say they will resist a 'racist' Danish law which allows large numbers of people to be evicted from social housing in areas where the...

Denmark passed a controversial law in 2018 to redevelop poor urban "ghettos" with high concentrations of immigrant populations by 2030.