Expulsion from Denmark

Case no. 62/2025

Judgment delivered on 16 February 2026

The Prosecution Service
vs.
T

The High Court had sentenced T, a Syrian citizen, to imprisonment for 1 year and 9 months for, among other things, repeated offences of aggravated assault as well as robbery and duress against a minor. 

The issue before the Supreme Court only concerned the expulsion order. The question was whether expelling T would be in contravention of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights because T was under the age of 18 at the time of the crimes.

T came to Denmark when he was 7 years old, and both his parents and his siblings lived in Denmark. He spoke Syrian with this father and with his grandparents who still lived in Syria. He had previous convictions for assault, including aggravated assault, and he had previously been issued with an expulsion warning.

The Supreme Court agreed with the District Court’s and the High Court’s conclusion that, based on an overall assessment, there were such very serious reasons as required by the European Court of Human Rights to expel an alien for crime committed as a minor when he arrived in Denmark as a child and spent most of his childhood and youth in this country. In this connection, the Supreme Court stated that this assessment was further supported by the fact that T had committed aggravated assault again after the District Court’s judgment.

The Supreme Court thus held that T was to be expelled with a 6-year entry ban.

The High Court had reached the same conclusion.