Nicolai Sennels: Local priest on the life in Copenhagen ghetto: the area is under Muslim siege
I had my 6 months of internship as a psychologist in Tingbjerg. It is a beautiful area with low buildings situation in nature in the northern part of Copenhagen. The area was supposed to be a beautiful housing area for poor Danes, but has turned into an Islamic, super-criminal enclave.
“The police is here too little and there is too much crime, says knowers of the isolated Copenhagen town Tingbjerg. The warning comes from priest Ulrich Vogel, who in 2009 was driven out of the area.
The Copenhagen district Tingbjerg is under a kind of siege. In the daytime, the social workers move in to take care of the residents, who are predominantly immigrants and socially disadvantaged. When darkness falls, and the do-gooders go home, the gangs taker over. A current problem, according to social workers in the area, is that criminals threaten receivers of social security to give their debit cards.
According to Vogel, this is part of the alarming reality in Tingbjerg. Vogel has been pastor at Tingbjerg Church since 1992, and it caused quite a uproar when he in 2009 was driven out of the area after beingterrorized, and his home was vandalized. Only four months later, he returned.
“When you hear about the Mafia in Sicily, I always think: you do not need to travel so far. This type of crime works fine in Tingbjerg. In this way, it is a parallel society. There is a void that is being filled out by criminals. And crime is now completely ingrained in the district,” says Ulrich Vogel. …
From his church office Ulrich Vogel gives this introduction to the district:
“When you come to Tingbjerg, you see that many shutters are drawn. 20 years ago many hung a lot of lovely flowers on the balconies. Today, maybe two windows have boxes with flowers. You drive past a worn down shopping precinct. …
Masti Jutka, who is a social worker at Tingbjerg Church, takes over:
“After darkness falls, there is very, very quiet here. I do not like to say it, but sometimes young boys are controlling the streets. Sometimes they block of streets. They ask why people want to get into Tingbjerg. Sometimes they also demand money from people who want to get into Tingbjerg,” said Masti Jutka
