The girl was charged with housing a number of explosive and for publicly approving terrorist acts committed by ISIS. The question everybody ask if there could have been done something to prevent this girl to go down this path. Why wasn’t she using her afternoon in the Friday bar at her high school hanging out drinking beer or wine enjoying herself?
She was a former student at Isefjordsskolen. She redrew herself from the school some months before the arrest. Due to the court order of giving the police peace to investigate the case without the media watching as it has become common in terrorist related cases, people are told not to talk about the case. The school will not comment on the case or if they as they are subjected to do report the girl to the social services for not attending the normal social circles.
It has become focus for many schools lately. When terrorist acts are committed by single persons and so to say hired over the Internet, you can only catch them by reporting people who remove themselves from social circles in school or at the workplace. If they do not attend the weekly Friday bar, something is wrong. Personally, I suspect that the school reported her to the social services. The social services then reported her to the police when they discovered that it was not depression or other kind of mental illness.
Mental illnesses are rather shunned in the Danish society in such a degree that it could become rather expensive for the family to treat if the social services become involved. A stay in a group home caused by depression or even as little as sadness due to death or illness in the family are fined by the social services. In Denmark, only ordinary illnesses are treated for free in the hospitals. Mental illnesses often caused by family relations or heritage, the authorities do not like.
Some family friends pay more than 4,000 euros per year for the stay of their daughter in a group home because the daughter was sad about her mother’s depression and became a target for bullying in school. The social services paid her a visit and found too many teddy bears (around 50) in her room and diagnosed her to have become too shielded by her parents. I understand that you might find the state of Denmark too interfering if you are a foreigner but that is the social services in Denmark and how they work.
Then of course, in this case they have not been around at all after the arrest of the girl. The girl was placed in an adult jail despite her age but again terrorism is a severe charge. The jails in Denmark are not gender separated so it is not going to be a fun stay and of course, the staff cannot be around all time. Denmark has signed a convention preventing that but Denmark is very close to collapse in general due to the huge migration so the law cannot be uphold in all places even by the authorities.
For 14 days, her lawyer only visited the girl. The mother was not allowed to visit her. In addition, the social services are not used to severe cases like these either. Often hinting families solve more severe cases that it is time to move out of the town so a new department of social services in another city can start over with the family. However, the newspapers wrote about the social services not visiting and now there were forced to act.
The question remains:
- Could this case have been prevented?
- Could the school have reported her sooner so it had remained a case for the social services only?
- What is the role of the 24-year-old-man when they never met in person?
There are so many questions and they can only be answered if the police label it an ordinary case instead of a terrorist case so it can be dealt with in an open court.
Source:
arrested with explosives (The Local)
