Dansk Folkeparti’s sharing of a video showing a man shouting abuse in Copenhagen has drawn more than 3,300 comments, several of which a law professor says could be criminal.
The video, recorded in early September, shows a person who calls himself G-father walking through Copenhagen. He repeatedly shouts the phrase “danske luderbørn” and uses other degrading language, DR Nyheder reported on September 12, 2026.
On G-father’s own profile, which has 15 followers, the original video received 30 comments. After Dansk Folkeparti shared it, the number of comments passed 3,300, according to DR. The same profile holds other videos, including one filmed at Amalienborg in which he calls the royal family giraffes.
Professor points to the racism paragraph
DR describes the comment section as containing potential threats, defamation and racist statements on a large scale. Some comments describe in detail how G-father should come to harm, while others compare him to animals.
Law professor Sten Schaumburg-Müller told DR that several of the comments he has seen could potentially be punishable under the racism paragraph. He also assessed that Dansk Folkeparti can be held responsible for statements posted on its page if the party does not moderate sufficiently.
Dansk Folkeparti declined an interview with DR Nyheder and answered in writing instead. Secretariat and organization chief Kenneth Kristensen Berth said the party lacks the capacity to moderate every comment. Per his written response, the line is drawn at statements that break the law, and the party manually removes the worst comments.
Berth added that far more comments arrive than the party can read, and that the problem is not isolated to Dansk Folkeparti but affects all larger social media profiles. On the choice to share an identifiable person, he said the party regularly posts examples of what it calls failed immigration policy. According to Berth, it is important to show reality and not only numbers.
DR Nyheder stated that it does not know the background of the person in the video. The party has not responded to the question of whether it carried out a background check on G-father. DR also sought a comment from G-father, who did not reply.
Digital adviser: moderators have given up
Benjamin Rud Elberth of Elberth Kommunikation told DR the engagement does not surprise him. He said parties have learned that posting outrage mobilizes people, and that moderators at Christiansborg have given up cleaning up comment sections.
Elberth said Dansk Folkeparti’s communication has increasingly moved to social media, and that its organization is built to produce this type of content. He described this as the foundation of the party’s gains in opinion polls. Ten years ago, he said, such communication would have cost a prime minister post.
Asked about the downside, Elberth said people lose trust in nuanced conversation, but otherwise pointed to none. He noted that other parties would previously have refused to accept communication that harsh.
