the Police Intelligence service (PET) considers that the Copenhagen district Court should have struck harder down at JP/Politikens Hus and editor-in-chief Christian Jensen, for having defied a protective order in the case of the book “Seven years to a PET”.
Why has the secret service decided to appeal against the verdict to the high court with demands for a stricter punishment.
– Particularly in the light of the grounds that were sought are protected by the prohibition, it is for the PET is crucial that the penalty be set at a level that works preventively, and to ensure that there is no object of speculation, it may pay to violate a ban, writes the PET in an email to Ritzau.
the Copenhagen city Court ruled Friday the judgment in the case. JP/Politikens Hus should pay 100,000 crowns, while Christian Jensen must of 50,000 crowns. In addition to costs on the total of 60,000 crowns.
PET required much higher penalties. Christian Jensen was to have four months in prison – the strictest possible punishment in such cases.
Besides, the secret service required the JP/Politikens Hus punished with 15 million kroner.
