Denmark to get tough on foreign fighters’ ‘treason’

This is from the Danish edition of the Local earlier this month. So when the reporter writes about ‘next week’ he actualy means last week.

When the new parliamentary season opens on Tuesday, an item at the top of the government’s agenda will be strengthening the laws related to Danes who fight alongside terror groups abroad. 

Justice Minister Søren Pind told news agency Ritzau that the government is prepared to implement tougher laws to punish Danish citizens who join terror groups like Isis to fight in Syria and Iraq. 

“It will mean that the rules for treason will be fine-tuned so that one can be punished for working against Denmark. There is no doubt that what we are seeing is treasonous. It works against Danish interests, it radicalizes people against Denmark and contributes to them fighting for Denmark’s enemies,” Pind told Ritzau. “Denmark is one of the countries that produces the most Syrian fighters so it is something we take very seriously,” he added. 

I wish our feeble government would realise this is treason and that we have traitors in our midst. I am not the only person who thinks it ‘interesting’ that the Blair government removed the last vestige of the death penalty for treason just before their implimentation of mass immigration, designed to “rub our noses in diversity”
 
Per capita, Denmark is the second largest European source after Belgium of jihadist fighters going to the Middle East.