A 63-year-old man from Helsingør has been sentenced to two months of unconditional imprisonment for Facebook comments that a Danish court read as urging others to shoot a named top politician.
The man recently appeared in the District Court in Helsingør, Avisen Danmark reports. He was charged with encouraging others to shoot a named Danish top politician in a comment thread on Facebook.
According to the reporting, the comments were written from his home in Helsingør on February 27, 2026. That was the day after a general election was called in Denmark. They responded to a statement the politician had posted during the campaign.
Per the indictment cited by Avisen Danmark, the man asked whether someone could give “the terror-supporting clown a k…. to the forehead.” He followed up by writing that the politician and his party colleagues openly supported what he called an infested nest of rats, and that the politician deserved nothing else.
Two penal code provisions
With the comments, the man violated two provisions of the Danish Penal Code, covering threats and incitement to violence against others. The judge also interpreted the words as a gross attack on the democratic order, prompted by a member of parliament’s political work. The prosecutor demanded unconditional prison.
The man admitted writing the comments and confirmed they were addressed to the named politician. He argued that the letter “k” in the incomplete word did not stand for “kugle,” meaning bullet, but for “kegle,” meaning cone. As reported by Avisen Danmark, he was not entirely surprised that most readers had understood it as a bullet.
The man had no previous convictions. He told the judge that what he had written was brain-dead and insane, and said he did not usually comment so aggressively on Facebook. He explained that he had been worked up by the politician’s statements during the election campaign.
He later posted an apology on the politician’s own Facebook page. The judge was not swayed by the confession or the apology. According to Avisen Danmark, the court saw no reason to make the sentence conditional.
The result is two months in prison for the 63-year-old. The case was heard in Helsingør, and the article was published on August 19, 2026. The reporting does not name the politician who received the comments.
The election campaign referenced in the case began in late February 2026, when the general election was called. The comments were posted the following day, and the case reached the District Court in Helsingør this month.
Avisen Danmark is the only outlet identified as reporting on this specific case, and no official statement from the police or prosecution service has been published about the verdict.
