What Copenhagen Pizza Makers Think About a Politician Encouraging the Public to Spy on Them

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What Copenhagen Pizza Makers Think About a Politician Encouraging the Public to Spy on Them

The people have spoken, and they're not pleased.

This story was originally published in Danish on MUNCHIES DK.


Inger Støjberg, Secretary of Integration in Denmark, has issues with the conversation at local pizzerias. After TV2, a Danish TV station, brought a story about a rise in the number of persons charged with staying in Denmark illegally, Støjberg called on ordinary Danes to help the authorities by reporting those pizzerias where people don't speak Danish.

"I actually also call on ordinary Danes to personally contact the authorities when they, for example, visit their pizzeria and find that there's something weird about the back room, because there are so many in there, who do not speak Danish at all. Because it is utopian to think that the police can get to every back room in Denmark," Støjberg said to TV2.

But what do the pizza makers think about all this? What's it like to all of the sudden get in the spotlight solely because of the talk that goes on in the kitchen? We took a trip around Copenhagen and asked pizza makers what they think about Inger Støjberg's call for pizza spying.