In December 2021, a court sentenced her to 60 days in prison for misconduct. Now the former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Inger Støjberg, has started her sentence – with ankle bracelets.
After her conviction by a special court set up especially for her, Denmark’s former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Inger Støjberg, has started her sentence, according to her own statements.
She sincerely accepts the verdict and is now serving her sentence in shackles so that she can attend to her work, the conservative politician wrote in her newsletter, according to the Ritzau news agency.
In December 2021, Støjberg was sentenced to 60 days in prison by a so-called Reichsgericht for misconduct. The court found the now 49-year-old guilty of having acted with intent when separating an asylum-seeking couple from Syria. In Denmark, imprisonment of up to six months can be served in certain cases with an electronic tag. For this, however, certain requirements such as permanent employment and suitable accommodation must be met.
Støjberg was Minister for Foreigners and Integration from 2015 to 2019. During this time she is said to have unlawfully ordered the couple from Syria to be separated from each other because the woman was a minor. In 2016, her ministry stated in a statement that all asylum couples would be accommodated separately if one of the partners was a minor. According to the court, this was an illegal instruction. 23 couples were affected.
Source: Stern
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