The Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen catches up with the mass killing of millions of mink from Corona worries a year later. A commission set up to investigate the proceedings told various Danish media on Wednesday that attempts were in vain to receive certain SMS messages from the time when the decision to cull the fur animals was taken. The reason: Frederiksen and three of her closest employees had set their phones so that SMS were automatically deleted after 30 days.
The Mink Commission was set up to investigate what exactly happened in November 2020 in the internationally sensational case.
At that time, Frederiksen had announced that all farmed ores in the country should be killed - these animals had until then been bred in Denmark for the production of furs.
There were about 15 million animals.
The reason given for the rigorous step was that the coronavirus had mutated in the mink and had been transmitted to humans.
As it later turned out, there was no legal basis for the measure.
This was only created in retrospect.
The then responsible food minister Mogens Jensen resigned in the wake of the controversy.
In its investigations, the Commission also asked for the news flow of key people from September to December 2020.
Compared to leading Danish media such as the broadcasters DR and TV2, the State Chancellery has now underlined that the SMS had not been deleted in a targeted manner and that no rules had been violated.
The Mink Commission still wants to see that the news is restored.
Frederiksen is scheduled to be questioned by the commission on December 9th.