Anti-immigrant 'plot' in Denmark

Published on 10 August 2011

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A secret espionage network consisting of a hundred people and called ORG is working towards a Denmark "cleansed" of immigrants, reports the Danish newspaper Politiken. According to the newspaper, which gained access to a private online forum, ORG has existed for 20 years. It spies on the Danish left and feeds information on its most prominent personalities to the most radical of the far-right Danish groups, such as "Den danske forening", "the Danish Association". The organisation also wants to "settle accounts" with the "traitors" who have permitted immigration or publicly supported it.

In 2009, a police officer member of the network was sentenced to probation for abusing his position to obtain information on "political opponents". Several of ORG's founders have been members of the leadership of the populist Danish People's Party (FP) and, according to photos posted on the organisation’s forum, celebrate the summer solstice by partying around a cross of fire, an ancient Danish rite. The head of ORG, Jesper Nielsen, declined to meet with Politiken's journalists, but wrote that "ORG does not want this publicity, because we assume that the non-public character of the organisation will be misinterpreted.

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