COPENHAGEN—Denmark’s top court on Thursday will begin an appeal hearing in which it will be asked to decide if coughing at someone while shouting “corona” constitutes threatening behavior.
The 20-year-old defendant in the case was arrested in March, when the country was under a full coronavirus lockdown, after subjecting police to what prosecutors called the “ruthless and thoughtless” actions during a routine traffic stop. He subsequently tested negative for COVID-19.
First acquitted in a local court, he was later convicted of the offense at Denmark’s Western High Court and, at his Supreme Court appeal against that conviction, prosecutors are seeking a jail term of three to five …
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