Danish PM Denies She Knew Order for Mink Kill Was Not Legally Valid AsiaOne | Nov. 3, 2021
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, facing a probe over the slaughter of the country’s entire mink herd last year, on Wednesday (Nov 3) denied that she knew then that the government did not have legal authority to order the move.
Responding to the rising spread of coronavirus from mink to people, including a new mutated strain, Frederiksen’s Social Democratic government in November [2020] ordered all of the country’s 17 million minks killed.
The government later admitted it did not have the legal authority to kill healthy mink herds, only those infected with coronavirus, leading to the exit of the minister of agriculture.
Some bureaucrat retired on a pension. Well, then that makes it all right, then.
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