The Danish police broke the law when they detained thousands of climate protesters on December 12th and four other dates during the COP15 in Copenhagen. The National Court of Denmark confirms the ruling of the City Court of Copenhagen and declares all five mass-arrests during the COP15 illegal. In addition the court ruled that articles of the European human rights convention were violated on December 12th as the police degraded and mistreated the arrestees. Thus, compensation of up to 9000 Danish Kroner should still be awarded to the ones who filed complaints in due time. All in all the Danish police will be handing out compensations in the millions.

If you were pre-emptively arrested during the Climate Summit in Copenhagen in 2009, but never complained, please contact the Danish legal group RUSK. Then there might be a possibility to get compensation as well, even though you were not part of the lawsuit. Email kontakt@rusklaw.org ...(please specify name, address, nationality, and date, place and time of the arrest) ////Copenhagen Climate Collective