Archive post: »Venstre politician casts doubt on legal protection« · 2021-09-12

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Source title: Venstrepolitiker sår tvivl om retssikkerheden

Text version dated 12 May 2023

Venstrepolitiker sår tvivl om retssikkerheden Gennem det seneste år har iværksætteren og ejeren af Skansegården ved Sønderborg, ejeren oplevet at blive anmeldt og sigtet for en stribe forbrydelser, som alle viste sig udelukkende at være produkter af en vis sønderjysk lokalpolitikers lidt for livlige fantasi. Samtlige anklager blev afvist af anklagemyndigheden, inden de overhovedet kom for retten. Alligevel har det at blive behandlet som kriminel naturligvis været en grænseoverskridende oplevelse for en mand, der aldrig har fået så meget som en parkeringsbøde og grundlæggende er et lovlydigt menneske.

Hvordan har Venstrepolitikeren Peter Erik Hansen fået Sønderborg Politi til at sætte alle sejl til for gennem 10 måneder at bygge sagsakter op uden nogen chance for domsfældelse? Tja, det er et spørgsmål, der har fået en del advokater til at undres. Heriblandt en tidligere politianklager.

Det ser ud som systematisk chikane Fakta er nok, at domsfældelse ikke var vigtig. Det var derimod vigtigt at skræmme ejeren til ikke at ytre sig om Peter Erik Hansen. Måske for yderligere at intimidere den anklagede, bad Sønderborg Politi Kriminalforsorgen om at lave en beskrivelse af ejerens personlige og sociale forhold – en såkaldt personundersøgelse.

I den bad man ejeren svare på spørgsmål om hans: Uddannelse, arbejde, familieforhold og fritidsinteresser. Helbred, forhold til alkohol og narkotika m.v. Fremtidsplaner.

Eventuel egnethed til samfundstjeneste. Advokat René Offersen havde denne kommentar: ”At afkræve en personundersøgelse allerede inden den beskikkede forsvarer har modtaget forsvarergenparter, og inden den sigtede har haft lejlighed til at udtale sig til sagen, forekommer at være nærmest chikanøst.” Den omfattende personundersøgelse bruges stort set kun til bandemedlemmer og andre hårde kriminelle. Det kunne være interessant at vide, hvem hos Politiet i Sønderborg, der har bestilt en sådan undersøgelse - i øvrigt af en mand, der nu har fået papir på, at han er uskyldig.

Der kan siges en del skidt om Peter Erik Hansen, (og vi har sikkert ikke været tilbageholdende på den konto) men vi må indrømme: Han har godt nok nogle indflydelsesrige venner. Hvad med retssikkerheden? En af grundene til at vi danskere regnes for at være blandt de lykkeligste mennesker i verden er, at vi generelt har en tiltro til retssikkerheden, og at vi lever i et land med stabil forvaltning og lav offentlig korruption, med adgang til et uddannelsessystem og sundhedsvæsen af høj kvalitet.

Tror du stadig på retssikkerhed? Faktisk var vi blevet en smule i tvivl. Vi tror naturligvis ikke, at korruption foregår i det danske retssamfund, men for at være på den sikre side har vi, gennem Syd-og Sønderjyllands Politis ledelsessekretariat, bedt politidirektøren om at forelægge sagsforløbet for Den Uafhængige Politiklagemyndighed. https://site.dybbolbanke.dk/kriminalforsorgen-syddanmark-indkaldelse (Opslaget har tidligere været bragt på vores Facebook side)

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Venstre politician casts doubt on legal protection

Over the past year, the entrepreneur and owner of Skansegården near Sønderborg, the owner, has experienced being reported and charged with a series of offences that all proved to be nothing more than products of a certain southern Jutland local politician’s slightly overactive imagination. Every accusation was rejected by the prosecution service before it even reached court. Nevertheless, being treated as a criminal was naturally a deeply unsettling experience for a man who has never received even a parking ticket and is fundamentally law-abiding.

How did Venstre politician Peter Erik Hansen get Sønderborg Politi to pull out all the stops for 10 months to build up case records with no chance of obtaining a conviction? Well, that is a question that has puzzled several lawyers, including a former police prosecutor.

It looks like systematic harassment
The reality is probably that a conviction was not important. What mattered instead was frightening the owner into not speaking about Peter Erik Hansen. Perhaps to further intimidate the accused, Sønderborg Politi asked Kriminalforsorgen to draw up a description of the owner's personal and social circumstances—a so-called pre-sentence personal report.
In it, the owner was asked to answer questions about his:

Education, work, family circumstances and leisure interests.

Health, relationship to alcohol and drugs, etc.

Plans for the future.

Possible suitability for community service. Lawyer René Offersen commented: “Requiring a personal report even before the appointed defence lawyer has received copies of the case materials, and before the accused has had an opportunity to comment on the case, appears almost harassing.”
The extensive personal report is used almost exclusively for gang members and other hardened criminals. It would be interesting to know who at the police in Sønderborg ordered such a report—incidentally, concerning a man who now has written confirmation that he is innocent.

A great deal of bad can be said about Peter Erik Hansen, and we have probably not held back in that regard, but we must admit: He certainly has some influential friends.

What about legal safeguards? One reason we Danes are considered among the happiest people in the world is that we generally trust in legal protection and live in a country with stable administration and little public-sector corruption, with access to a high-quality education system and healthcare service. Do you still believe in legal safeguards?

We had actually begun to have slight doubts. Naturally, we do not believe corruption takes place in Denmark's society governed by the rule of law, but to be on the safe side, through Syd-og Sønderjyllands Politi's management secretariat, we have asked the chief of police to present the sequence of events to Den Uafhængige Politiklagemyndighed.

Kriminalforsorgen Syddanmark, summons
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