LGBT+ Denmark describes the attack in Berlin as "disheartening" and "unfortunate".
Secretariat manager at LGBT+ Denmark, Susanne Branner Jespersen, calls it disheartening that yet another LGBT+ event has been attacked. (Photo: © DR) 14 minutes ago.
One person lost their life and several were seriously injured after a large crowd was rammed at a pride event in Berlin yesterday.
German police consider the incident an Islamist terror attack, and it affects not only those present in Berlin, but also the LGBT+ community in Denmark.
The association LGBT+ Denmark calls it "disheartening" and "unfortunate" that a pride event has been subjected to an attack.
The incident in Berlin comes just two weeks before Copenhagen Pride takes place in Denmark. And although the secretariat manager of the association, Susanne Branner Jespersen, does not believe it will change the event itself in the capital, she thinks it will have an impact on the LGBT+ community.
"Everyone will be affected by it. But I also think it will make people come out in greater numbers. We have seen that in recent years. When things like this happen, we stand together more and try to be there for each other," she says.
Susanne Branner Jespersen is also concerned about what the threat of attacks does to individual LGBT+ people.
"Some feel hopelessness, some become angry, some withdraw. Of course, it creates more fear in one's daily life to know that you are a target of others' anger, and you don't know where that anger is, and it can come at any time," she says.
"We are people who just want to live as we are, and I simply do not understand that that is what makes someone's hatred boil over so much," she says.
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Several attacks in recent years
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Susanne Branner Jespersen also mentions the attack on an LGBT+ bar in Oslo in 2022 ( https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/i-nat-blev-regnbuen-farvet-sort-angreb-mod-lgbt-bar-i-oslo-betragtes-som-terror ), where two died, and the attack in Orlando, USA, on the LGBT+ nightclub Pulse in 2016, where 49 died in a mass shooting.
"It is unfortunate that we as a movement have to be targets of this kind of attack, which feels like it happens again and again," says the secretariat manager.
"We have annual information meetings with PET. We know that there is a threat, and that the danger is particularly high from right-wing extremist movements. So it is a repetition of what happened in Oslo. It is quite wild that this is a danger one has to live with," says Susanne Branner Jespersen.
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