COPENHAGEN: A court in Denmark has fined a prominent children’s rights campaigner for giving a family of Syrian migrants a lift across the country to Sweden.
Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her husband Michael Lindholm have both been fined 22,250 Danish crowns (2, 983 euros) under Denmark’s Aliens Act.
Zornig Andersen, a former chair of the Danish National Children’s Council, took the family of six to her home in September last year.
Danish media reported that Mr Lindholm later drove them on to a bridge crossing from where they could travel to Sweden.
The court ruled the couple are guilty of violating Danish immigration laws forbidding assisting foreigners to cross Denmark illegally.
The legislation bans providing transport to people who do not hold a resident’s permit.
The couple has two weeks to appeal.
A Danish citizen was fined in January for driving five migrants to Sweden.
