Daniel Carlsen
Daniel Carlsen is a member of the Danish National-Socialist Movement. He sparked controversy in November 2009, when it emerged he was doing his military service in the unit responsible for guarding the royal family.[1]
He is currently the leader of the extreme-right Party of the Danes (the party is relatively fringe and linked with neo-Nazism, but its fellow travelers include more prominent, legitimate organizations, such as the Danish People’s Party, which won around 21 percent of the vote in the 2015 parliamentary elections). [2]
'Anti-migrant' spray stunt
Members of the far-right Party of the Danes in a Danish town distributed dozens of aerosol spray cans to passersby labeled 'anti-migrant spray'. They were said to aimed at equipping local Danes against the threat of assault from immigrants and asylum seekers. As party leader, Carlsen defended the stunt, saying: 'I cannot see how it is racist, [...] [p]epper spray is illegal here so we wanted to figure out a way for Danish people, in particular women, to protect themselves. It’s obviously not the ideal situation.'
In January of that year, leader of the PVV Geert Wilders had already handed women spray cans that promised to be 'Islamic testosterone bombs'. [2]
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- ↑ AFP, Neo-Nazi Dane serves in military's royal guard, Javno, 8 November 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ishaan Tharoor, Far-right party handed out ‘anti-migrant’ spray in Denmark, spurring backlash, The Washington Post, 30 September 2016. Accessed 10 October 2016.
