The Internment in Valby is constructed in a former beer depot in relationship with the
state of emergency laws introduced in relationship with the
United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 7 and 18 December. The conference included the 15th session of the Conference of the Partie ...
(COP15) December 2009
It is the primary detention used for climate activists, who will be arrested by the police. The police can detain people for 12 hours, which is called preemptive arrest
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by Maria Kramer and Rikke Holm, Ekstra Bladet, December 3, 2009
The procedure:
*1) The detainees will be placed on benches in handcuffs until they will be called to be booked and searched.
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Ekstra Bladet, December 3, 2009
*2) Then they will be led to the cages (pejoratively called "dog cages" in the Danish media) which can each accommodate 8-10 persons.
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*3) If police investigation leads to charges the detainee will be transferred to ]Vestre Fængsel
Vestre Prison ( da, Vestre Fængsel) is the main jail of the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Erected in 1895, it is Denmark's largest prison with a total capacity of 530 inmates. It primarily houses pretrial detainees, not convicted felons.
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. Otherwise the detainee will be released after the 12-hour period since the arrest has passed.
There will be access to toilet and water. Food can be earned after 6 hours. Due to limited heating possibilities the detainees can be granted a blanket.[
A common nickname in the press is the "Climate Prison" Climate prison emptied of arrestees]
by Karen Nielsen, Denmark's Radio, December 14, 2009
References
Valby
Prisons in Denmark
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