Outrage in Denmark as 17y girl faces fine for using pepper spray against sex attacker

A Danish teenager who said she was sexually assaulted now faces a fine for using pepper spray against her attacker. The man who pulled her to the ground and tried to undress her fled the scene without any charges.
The incident took place in the center of the small town of Sonderborg in southern Denmark at about 10 p.m. local time Wednesday. She told police that an English-speaking man knocked her to the ground, tried to unbutton her pants and undress her.

However, she was apparently able to protect herself as she pulled out pepper spray and used it against the man, who escaped the scene and hasn’t been charged.

Police say that the girl may face a fine.

“It is illegal to possess and use pepper spray, so she will likely be charged for that,” local police spokesman Knud Kirsten said, as cited by TV Syd.

According to The Local, the girl’s fine could be about 500 kroner ($72) and that has sparked outrage on social media.

Readers of the story on TV Syd’s website said they were ready to pay the girl’s fine.

“It is so completely and terribly wrong with the Danish system… Self-defense is a human right,” wrote one user, while another ironically added: “Perhaps the offender must seek compensation…Have we become mad in Denmark?

In the meantime, RT contacted local police spokesperson Helle Lundberg who said that officers had found neither “the attacker, nor any witnesses.”

“We do not know who he is, and we do not know if he might be an asylum seeker. The girl has described him as English-speaking. That is all we know,” the spokesperson added.

Sonderborg, along with other Danish cities, recently appeared in the news in connection with sexual assaults against women by migrants.

“We must say that a large number of the male guests who come from the local asylum center have a very hard time respecting the opposite sex. In my eyes, it is harassment when one or more men continue to touch a young woman after she has said ‘stop,’” Glenn Hollender, from the Sonderborg club Den Flyvende Hollænder, told TV Syd earlier in January.

Sexual harassment of women by refugees and migrants in Europe is the main issue that has been making headlines since the New Year.


The first city to report about mass sexual harassment was Cologne, Germany. According to witnesses, “heavily intoxicated” men of “Arab or North African” origin were harassing and assaulting local women in the city center on New Year’s Eve.

Similar cases have been reported in other German cities such as Berlin, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. Police were also accused of covering up migrant attacks in Sweden, after groups of young Afghan men reportedly molested girls at a teen music festival.

 

I've often wondered why people are so against pepper spray as a defensive item... it seems like the least harmful item that could possibly be used, aside from just giving up and giving in to demands by the attacker... why should we live in a world where you can't take what I would consider a very reasonable step of defense with minimal damage to anyone surrounding or involved... is there something about the culture there, where pepper spray is considered immensely offensive and dangerous?

 

No they probably don't want to be labeled as Islamophobic. So their image is more important than their people.

 

Maybe they haven't heard. Self defense is a god given right.

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People love victims. They loath those that are willing to fight back.

 

For decades people and governments have been conditioning the mass to be victims.

 

I don't think this 17 year old girl should have to pay a fine.

 

The Obama Administration recommends that women and girls pee on their attacker in these situations. I am not joking. That is their suggestion to women being raped.

Liberals are just idiots.

 

Soon, if she makes such a complaint she will be stoned to death.

 

Those disgusting BARBARIANS cannot behave themselves properly. Not even at home.

But abroad they R xposed.

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She should have used sulfuric acid instead of pepper.

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These kind of cops need to face a military tribunal and be executed.
Both Sweden and Austria have military generals who have informed their respective publics that a military coup may need to happen if the politicians cannot restore order.

 

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They obviously find it easier to 'deal with' the victim than go after the offender. They must've got their police training here in the madhouse-without-walls known as the UK!