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The journeys have been long and numerous through neighboring Denmark and its minks. On November 4, Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen (S) announced that it was necessary to kill all minks in the country. This is because a coronavirus mutation has been found among infected minks, a mutation that has later been passed on to humans.
But when the Danish prime minister first announced that the country’s minks would be killed, there was no legal basis to rely on.
Responsibility of the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
On Wednesday, a report was released on how the mink problem was handled. It states that the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Mogens Jensen (S), on November 7, just three days after the announcement of the mass slaughter of minks, discovered that there was no legal basis for making such a decision. On November 10, the country’s mink farmers received the same message.
Earlier, the Danish prime minister said she found out on the same weekend of November 7-8. He later came out and regretted the wrong decision, but said the responsibility was Food Minister Jensen. After all the tours, the latter announced today that he is resigning from his position.
“It’s not the right way to be a leader”
The opposition parties now want an independent commission to be created to resolve all the tours around the handling of the country’s minks. One of the leaders of the opposition parties, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen of the Liberal Party, believes that the Prime Minister has wrongly transferred responsibility to the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.
– It is not the right way to be a leader and it is not the right way to defend your responsibility as prime minister, says Jakob Ellemann-Jensen (V) to Danmarks Radio (DR).
The three parties supporting the Social Democrats, the Radical Left, the Popular Socialist Party and the Unity List, currently state that they do not want to name such an investigation, reports DR.
All infected minks die
On Wednesday, the Danish Food Safety Authority announced that all established infected minks had already been killed. But now every mink in the country will be killed and a ban on mink farming will be enforced for the next year. This is thus clear after the cooperation parties in exercise of the Folketing promised to vote an amendment to the law that will finally allow the mass slaughter of minks.
