Party leader charged with racism

Morten Messerschmidt, the leader of the Danish People’s Party, has been charged with racism following a complaint by a private citizen regarding a social media post from October 10th on platform X, formerly known as Twitter. In the post, Messerschmidt wrote ‘I was convicted in 2002 for stating the obvious… Today, I believe everyone can see we were right,’ accompanied by a picture from a 20-year-old recruitment campaign of the Danish People’s Party Youth. The image showed phrases like ‘Mass rape,’ ‘Severe violence,’ ‘Insecurity,’ and ‘Forced marriages,’ alongside two contrasting pictures: blond-haired women captioned ‘Denmark today’ and hooded, bloodstained men with a Quran captioned ‘Denmark in 10 years.’ The post had over 58,000 views. Messerschmidt, who was convicted of racism in 2002 and received a 14-day suspended sentence, has acknowledged the indictment but vows to keep speaking about immigration issues, even repeating the text on Facebook.