Police will not press charges against Danish People's Party's mayor candidate for her derogatory comments on Muslims on her campaign website

Copenhagen Post:

Louise Frevert, the Danish People's Party's mayoral candidate in Copenhagen, will not be charged for the attacks on Muslims posted on her campaign website last month, national broadcaster DR reported on Friday.

The comments, which compared Muslims with cancer tumours in Danish society and implied that all Muslim men were potential rapists, were also printed in a book in Frevert's name before the parliamentary elections in February.

Frevert's website editor has accepted the responsibility for the statement, and is currently being charged with breaking the so-called anti-racism paragraph of the Criminal Code.

The Danish People's Party announced, however, that the police had decided not to press charges on Frevert.

She said she was releaved over the decision.

'It's a weight off my back. I've said the whole time that it wasn't me who did it. So I can't help feeling happy,' Frevert said, adding that the police had brought her in for questioning on one occasion.

Socialist MP and spokesman on equal rights Kamal Qureshi, who was among the people who reported Frevert to the police, said he found the decision shocking.

'It's simply impressive, that a politician like Louise Frevert can get away so easily from statements put forward in her name and she defended for days in public,' Qureshi said.

He said the police must be afraid to press charges against an MP and mayoral candidate.

'It looks like the police are afraid to interfere, since the politician in question comes from the government's powerful support party,' Qureshi said.

Apparently, Mr. Qureshi doesn't understand the concept of free speech.

Frevert takes a breather