(AFP) Denmark will extend the tighter border controls introduced following protests involving Koran burnings in recent months in the country and in neighbouring Sweden, the justice ministry said Wednesday.
The ministry said in a statement that police “found it necessary to maintain the temporarily intensified efforts at the internal Danish borders,” citing a recommendation from the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET).
Originally scheduled for a week after being introduced on August 3, the random checks at the borders with Sweden and Germany are now due to remain in place until August 17.
