Denmark

Denmark regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Denmark's hate crime laws are comprised of a general penalty-enhancement provision. Reported data include discrimination and hate speech offences, although these can be partially disaggregated. Hate crime data are collected by the Danish National Police and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Hate crime statistics are regularly published.

Hate crime data collection in Denmark
Support for hate crime victims in Denmark

OFFICIAL DATA

Year Hate crimes recorded by police Prosecuted Sentenced
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 2015 Data

    Official figure includes six cases of hate speech.

National developments

The Danish National Police took over the responsibility for collecting data on hate crime in 2015, which is reported annually. The first report was published in June 2016.

Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See

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Reports

Anti-Semitic hate crime

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Human Rights First, the Jewish Community in Denmark (AKVAH), and the Kantor Center reported the murder of a Jewish security guard protecting a synagogue and one incident of vandalism in which a kosher restaurant was defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti. AKVAH also reported the attempted murder of two Jewish teenagers, two physical assaults on women, four threats and two incidents of vandalism, one of which involved graffiti.

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INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

In its "Concluding observations on the combined twentieth and twenty-first periodic reports of Denmark", the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) recommended that a national action plan on racism be developed, with a particular focus on combating hate crimes.

KEY OBSERVATION

ODIHR observes that Denmark has not reported to ODIHR the numbers of prosecuted and sentenced hate crime cases.