Denmark
Denmark regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Hate crime statistics are regularly published on the Danish National Police website.
The Ministry of Justice conducts annual victimization surveys to measure unreported hate crimes. The Danish National Police regularly engages in dialogue on hate crime with a number of community stakeholders.
OFFICIAL DATA REPORTED BY STATES
| Year | Hate crimes recorded by police | Prosecuted | Sentenced |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| 2022 | 212 | Not available | 22 |
| 2021 | 409 | 14 | 33 |
| 2020 | 635 | Not available | Not available |
| 2019 | 469 | - | - |
| 2018 | 449 | - | - |
| 2017 | 446 | Not available | Not available |
| 2016 | 274 | Not available | Not available |
| 2015 | 198 | Not available | Not available |
| 2014 | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| 2013 | 110 | Not available | Not available |
| 2012 | 320 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 384 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 334 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 306 | 5 | 1 |
About 2012 Data
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Figures include discrimination and propaganda crimes.
From this overall figure, in 141 cases the extremist motive could not be confirmed. 50 further cases represented discrimination or hate speech crimes and were therefore not included in the breakdown below, bringing the final figure of hate crimes reported in 2012 to 129.
Hate crime recorded by police
KEY OBSERVATION
ODIHR observes that Denmark has not reported on the numbers of prosecuted cases or information on sentenced hate crime cases to ODIHR.
INCIDENTS REPORTED BY CIVIL SOCIETY
INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
Racist and xenophobic hate crime
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) recommended that Denmark ensure the application of aggravating circumstances for bias motivation, where relevant, and are setting up a monitoring system on the use of such provisions and instructions from the Director of Public Prosecutions obliging prosecutors to raise racist motivation of a criminal offence in court.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued an opinion in the case of Mahali Dawas and Yousef Shava v. Denmark examining the state duty to take effective action against acts of discrimination and to provide effective remedies in relation to adequate investigation and prosecution of hate crimes. The case concerned a family of Iraqi immigrants in Denmark who were subjected to repeated racist abuse in their housing complex, culminating in a crowd entering their residence and assaulting them. The Committee found that the subsequent police investigation and prosecution failed to adequately investigate the potential bias motivations of the crime under the obligations of the treaty.