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Man who made bomb joke at Copenhagen airport gets prison sentence

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="A Scandinavian Airlines SAS aircraft takes off next to the control tower at Copenhagen Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark, 24 May 2023. EPA-EFE/LISELOTTE SABROE DENMARK OUT" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/business/10/06/20231006-copenhagen-airport-epa.jpg"/><figcaption>A Scandinavian Airlines SAS aircraft takes off next to the control tower at Copenhagen Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark, 24 May 2023. <em>EPA-EFE/LISELOTTE SABROE DENMARK OUT</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>COPENHAGEN, Denmark - A Danish court on Thursday gave a two-month suspended prison sentence to a 31-year-old Swede for making a joke about a bomb at Copenhagen&#x27;s airport this summer.</p><p>In late July, Pontus Wiklund, a handball coach who was accompanying his team to an international competition, said when asked by an airport agent that a bag of balls he was checking in contained a bomb.</p><p>&quot;We think you must have realised that it is more than likely that if you say the word &#x27;bomb&#x27; in response to what you have in your bag, it will be perceived as a threat,&quot; the judge told Wiklund, according to broadcaster TV2, which was present at the hearing.</p><p>The airport terminal was temporarily evacuated, and the coach arrested. He later apologized on his club&#x27;s website.</p><p>&quot;I completely lost my judgement for a short time and made a joke about something you really shouldn&#x27;t joke about, especially in that place,&quot; he said in a statement.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/03/23/what-happens-in-case-of-a-bomb-joke-or-threat-on-a-plane">What happens when someone makes a bomb joke, threat on a plane?</a></li></ul><p>According to the public prosecutor, the fact that Wiklund was joking, as his lawyer noted, did not constitute a mitigating circumstance.</p><p>&quot;This is not something we regard with humour in the Danish legal system,&quot; prosecutor Christian Brynning Petersen told the court.</p><p>cbw/jll</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2826764" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

 A Danish court on Thursday gave a two-month suspended prison sentence to a 31-year-old Swede for making a joke about a bomb at Copenhagen's airport this summer.