Denmark: Lebanese Family Targeted In KKK-Style Attack
COPENHAGEN, May 2 (News Agencies) - Unidentified intruders launched a Ku Klux Klan-style attack on a family of Lebanese immigrants living here, burning a huge cross in their garden, a Danish daily quoted police as saying Wednesday.
The attack, which took place last week in the plush Gentofte district in the north of the Danish capital, did not cause any injuries or material damage but terrified the family of six, the liberal daily Politiken reported.
It was the latest in a series of assaults on refugees and immigrants, including Molotov cocktail attacks, arson and vandalism, which police have not yet solved, the paper said.
The director of the Danish Center for Human Rights, Morten Kjaerum, told the paper he found it strange that police had such little success identifying the perpetrators of these attacks given their record in investigating incidents not involving foreigners.
"Danish society has great difficulty in accepting that racism exists in Denmark, and this attitude is spreading to the police," he said.
Danish police retorted by saying they believed the attacks were not racist incidents but settling of scores within the immigrant community itself.
Seven percent of Denmark's population of 5.3 million is of foreign origin.
