Snow returns to south of country, Danes accused in major phone scam case, Greenland hit by power blackout and more news this Monday.
Snow in southern Denmark
National meteorological office DMI has issued a weather alert for snow in the south of the country this morning.
The snow is already falling in southern parts of Denmark and will spread across South Jutland, Funen, Lolland-Falster and Bornholm throughout the day.
Tomorrow will bring even heavier weather, according forecasts, with 10-15 centimetres of snow predicted in the affected areas, and up to 20 centimetres locally.
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Norwegian authorities charge Danes for wide-ranging scamming racket
Police in Norway have cooperated with Danish law enforcement in a case which sees five Danish nationals face criminal proceedings in Oslo today, Norwegian news agency NTB reports.
The case relates to wide-ranging scams targeting elderly people in Norway, as well as money laundering.
Norwegian prosecutors say the accused – 11 people in total – contacted victims by telephone and persuaded them they were either police or bank employees. They then tricked them into transferring funds or handing over sensitive banking information.
The group illegally obtained up to 28 million Norwegian kroner (around 18 million Danish kroner) through the scheme, police said.
Norwegian investigators have been assisted by colleagues in Denmark, Finland and the UK in the case. Some of the perpetrators have been linked to the banned Danish organised crime group Loyal to Familia (LTF) by Norway’s national broadcaster NRK. LTF lawyers have denied this accusation.
The group may have called as many as 90,000 people in scamming attempts over a one-year period, police said. The calls are reported to have originated in Oslo and Copenhagen as well as Helsinki and Málaga.
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Crippling power outage ends in Greenland capital Nuuk
Power returned to Greenland’s capital Nuuk yesterday after a sweeping outage overnight caused by a transmission failure due to strong winds, the state utility company Nukissiorfiit said.
Nuuk, home to around 20,000 people and mostly powered by a hydroelectric plant, was left without electricity at around 10:30pm on Saturday.
“The entire city now has electricity, water, and heating again,” Nukissiorfiit said on Facebook early Sunday.
Internet connectivity had also been affected. Internet monitor NetBlocks reported a significant decline in connectivity in Greenland, “with high impact to capital Nuuk”.
It came days after Greenland’s government published a brochure offering residents advice on crisis preparedness, while US President Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to seize the autonomous Danish territory by force.
Trump backed down after meeting NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday, saying they had reached a “framework” deal on the Arctic island.
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Greenlanders try to reassure their children
Greenlandic nationals and experts have spoken to news agency AFP about how they have been reassuring worried children over recent weeks as Trump’s threats of invasion have hung over the territory.
As early as January 27th, 2025, one week after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Greenlandic authorities published a guide entitled “How to talk to children in times of uncertainty?”
“When somebody says they will come to take our country or they will bomb us or something, then of course children will get very scared because they cannot navigate for themselves in all this news,” said Tina Dam, chief programme officer for Unicef in the Danish territory.
This guide — to which the UN agency for children contributed — recommends parents remain calm and open, listen to their children and be sensitive to their feelings, and limit their own news consumption.
As in many parts of the world, social media, particularly TikTok, has become the primary source of information for young people.
Today, children have access to a lot of information not meant for them, said Dam — “and definitely not appropriate for their age”, she added.
“So that’s why we need to be aware of that as adults and be protective about our children and be able to talk with our children about the things they hear — because the rhetoric is quite aggressive.”
Arnakkuluk Jo Kleist, a 41-year-old consultant, said she talked a lot with her 13-year-old daughter, Manumina.
The teenager is also immersed in TikTok videos but “doesn’t seem very nervous, luckily, as much as maybe we are”, she added.
“Sometimes there are questions she’s asking — about what if this happens — that I don’t have any answers to” — because no one actually has the answer to such questions, she said.
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