Thugs in uniform in Copenhagen, Denmark, have viciously attacked peaceful protestors at the offices of criminal shipping giant Maersk. In a video posted on the Arbejderen Instagram account on 14 May, heavily armoured goons can be seen smashing their batons into people lying in the foetal position.
The cowards also rely on dogs to terrorise the anti-genocide campaigners who clearly pose no threat. The legal aid group Ulydig Retshjælp (Disobedient Legal Aid) said:
There are reports of several broken bones and huge bruises after being manhandled by the Danish police officers who quickly arrived at the scene both in uniform and in plain clothes.
The protest formed part of the Mask Off Maersk campaign. Their target is the genocide-enabling Danish shipping and logistics company which, as Mask Off Maersk writes on its website, is:
involved in all aspects of the supply chain of genocide — bringing military cargo to arms companies for assembly and shipping cargo to Israel from the US.
Maersk: a key facilitator of genocide
The company is heavily involved in the supply chain for:
…the Namer Armored Personnel Carrier (APC-MT883), which has been used extensively in the ongoing aggression against Gaza. Another supply chain is that of the Oshkosh Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles, with Maersk helping fulfill part of the supply chain related to a $159 million foreign military sale to Israel from the U.S. Department of Defense.
It also has a key role in shipping parts for the F-35 warplane that has been the backbone of the Zionist entity’s mass murder across West Asia. Disobedient Legal Aid say Maersk is:
…single-handedly responsible for the greatest number of weapons shipment to the Israeli apartheid state.
The protestors in Copenhagen were attempting to block the front doors to the company headquarters. Activists had previously staged a spectacular action in 2025, in which up to 1000 people burst through security lines to take over the premises. On this occasion, it seems a much smaller group was present, but that didn’t stop massive police over-reaction. From Arbejderen:
One might almost believe that the police were put on this earth to defend capital interests; it was impressively fast how they managed to summon up to 100 officers to remove the peaceful activists who had reached the entrance and the square, while others stood on the pavement.
It is the defence of capital that police were created for, and that remains their purpose today. If they actually cared about upholding the law, they’d have entered the Maersk offices a long time ago and hauled all their executives off to the cells for their participation in war crimes. Instead, such criminals remain unmolested, while those fighting to uphold the Genocide Convention their own government signed are beaten senseless.
It isn’t far-fetched for corporate reprobates to be dragged into the dock, if the political will exists. The Spanish government has been better than most in their stance towards the ‘Israel’ land theft project, and put steel executives before a judge for trading with the Tel Aviv terrorists.
Law group says cops’ “extreme violence” was illegal
Arbejderen continued:
The officers didn’t hold back. Even Arbejderen – a journalist with a visible press pass – first felt the baton and later tasted the tarmac while I attempted to cover how 20 activists were zip-tied and lined up before being driven to the station.
Denmark is doing its bit to break down the facade of Scandinavian countries being upholders of human rights. As Jacobin reported in June 2025:
When asked whether Denmark would assist in evacuating any of the 4,500 Gazan children in urgent need of medical treatment, the Danish government refused — citing an assessment by the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET), which deemed medical evacuations of children from Gaza a potential security risk. To date, this assessment remains unpublished and unexplained.
The country has not yet recognised Palestine, lagging even behind Britain, with the latter’s appalling record on assisting genocide.
You wouldn’t need to be an expert in law to know it, but Disobedient Legal Aid say the:
…acts of extreme violence committed by the police, such as the use of batons, and severely stressed out dogs against the demonstrators, is clearly illegal.
They are encouraging anyone involved to document injuries and report them to the organisation for potential legal action against the brutes in uniform doing ‘Israel’s’ bidding. The Mask Off Maersk campaign encourages email campaigns, phone jams and leafleting to pile pressure on this key cog in the machinery of genocide.
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