Danish privacy activist says masked police raided his home after he doxxed the PM

Lars Andersen, a self-described libertarian privacy activist and former police officer in Denmark, says masked, armed officers broke down his door without warning and arrested him. By his account, the raid followed posts in which he spelled out Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s social security and phone numbers using letters rather than digits, alongside a screenshot of his attempt to question her over proposals to ban encryption (CSA/chat-control) and expand police-intelligence access to medical records, social media, and research DNA registries.

The sharpest claim concerns how the arrest was carried out. Andersen says one officer went straight for the circuit-breaker panel to kill power to his router, then removed his Google Nest cameras specifically because they store footage locally — leaving only the seconds recorded before the power was cut. That clip, he says, shows officers refusing to state the charges against him, which he argues is itself illegal under Danish law, but he can’t access it because the cameras were seized. Filming police is nominally legal in Denmark, making the targeting of his cameras the core of his complaint.

The account is single-sourced and self-reported via the activist’s own social media, so the specifics remain his allegations rather than verified fact. Still, it lands amid a live European debate over encryption bans and expanded state surveillance, and Andersen frames the episode as evidence that Denmark and the wider West are drifting toward heavier-handed policing of dissent.