According to figures from Denmark's Ministry of Justice, non-Western immigrants and their descendants make up 10.6% of Denmark's population but account for 29.6% of violent crimes and 32.4% of rapes based on convicted offenders. Researcher Lars Højsgaard Andersen of the Rockwool Foundation said that those with the highest crime rates are "almost always people from Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa as well as Pakistan and Turkey." Separate figures from the Danish Correctional Services show 27.6% of Denmark's prison population consists of first- or second-generation immigrants. Including foreign nationals who are not Danish residents, more than 31% of inmates are non-Danish.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway from July 2 to 8, a foreign ministry spokesperson announced on Tuesday. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, will pay the visit at the invitation of Denmark's Minister for Foreign Affairs Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard, Finland's Minister for Foreign Affairs Elina Valtonen, and Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide, the spokesperson said.