It seems that among Danish liberals there are those who try to stand up for traditional European customs and laws. However, for all this, a specially set up court sentenced the Danish representative Inger Stojberg, who in the past as immigration minister took legal measures against the marriage of minors among migrants, to sixty days in prison.
Already in 2016, the politician called the fight against child marriages his personal goal and instructed the authorities to separate the child-spouses living in Denmark, mainly of Syrian nationality.
Stojberg, the minister of the liberal party Venstre, caused a huge indignation with his actions not only among left-wing politicians and NGOs, but also among representatives of his own party. The minister, who has since left his party, himself holds liberal views, and he also voted in the Danish parliament for the final declaration of the 2018 UN conference in Marrakesh, which wants to build "safe, orderly and regulated" migration routes for those trying to reach Europe.
With his strong stance against child marriage, however, he drew the ire of his liberal peers, and the prosecution opened proceedings against him for violating Danish law and the European Union's human rights charter. The last time in Denmark, the court investigating the violations of the representatives passed a conviction against a politician in 1995, also because of similar measures against the family reunification of migrants.
Stojberg reacted to the court's decision by saying, "I will accept the verdict with my head held high. Not only did I lose today, Danish values were lost." Since then, the authorities have reunited the separated child wives in most cases with their adult, much older husbands.
Source: magyarhirlap.hu
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