Two charged over Little Mermaid

Copenhagen - Two men were arrested yesterday and charged with beheading Copenhagen's landmark Little Mermaid statue.

Copenhagen - Two men were arrested yesterday and charged with beheading Copenhagen's landmark Little Mermaid statue.

According to police, the men are friends of a freelance television cameraman, Mr Michael Poulsen, who was charged earlier in the week with complicity to vandalism. Mr Poulsen, who specialises in crime and accident footage, was the first on the scene of the beheading of the statue last month.

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