Danish police will check politicians’ mobiles and iPads in mink cases
The case is being updated.
They will continuously hand over units to the police, who will try to recreate deleted text messages from the period when the government decided without authority to kill all mink in Denmark, the Ministry of Justice writes in a response to Ritzau on Tuesday.
– It is expected that there will be a response from police technicians before the end of next week, the ministry writes.
In connection with the Mink Commission’s work, it has emerged that a number of key people – among them Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) – have had telephones that have been set to delete text messages after 30 days.
It has hindered the Commission’s work as it has not been able to access text messages from this period.
Last week, the Ministry of Justice stated that it would be the police for help in recovering deleted messages.
Struggling to find messages
The Danish Mink Commission is struggling to find text messages that Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen sent to friends when they decided to kill all the country’s mink last year.
Almost a week ago, it became known to Frederiksen, as well as by her closest employees, have deleted text messages from the days when the decision was made in November 2020.
To the Danish TV2 relevant Prime Minister’s office that it is not assumed a targeted deletion of those messages, and that they have fulfilled the logging obligation.
15 million mink killed
The commission will map out what happened in the days when the Danish government decided to kill 15 million mink, to large international protesters. The background was that the coronavirus had spread from humans to mink, and then mutated in the mink and spread back to humans.
It turned out, however, in a short time that the government had no legal basis for carrying out such a massacre. Denmark’s then Minister of Food and Fisheries Mogens Jensen resigned shortly afterwards.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will meet in the commission on 9 December.
(© NTB)