Enormi manifestazioni in Danimarca e Groenlandia contro la dichiarazione del presidente Donald Trump secondo cui gli Stati Uniti hanno bisogno della Groenlandia per ragioni di sicurezza.

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*We are updating the development.*

It started at the City Hall Square in Copenhagen. Now the demonstrations have moved to outside the American Embassy in Copenhagen.

It is a protest against President Donald Trump’s statement that the United States needs Greenland for security reasons.

In Copenhagen, one sees both Danish and Greenlandic flags in the enormous crowd.

There will also be protests in Greenland on Saturday.

15,700 people participated in the demonstrations, according to Greenlandic KNR . One of them is Laila Geisler Frederiksen.

– I want to show that we stand together, Greenlanders and Danes, she tells NRK, who is on site.

Frederiksen grew up in Greenland, but moved with his family to Næstved three years ago.

– I feel insecure and think a lot about family and friends who are in Greenland. The support from other countries is important and means a lot. Greenland is not for sale, she says.

“Kalaallit Nunaat” is also shouted in the Danish capital on Saturday. It means Greenland in Greenlandic.

In addition to Copenhagen, there will be demonstrations on Saturday in other Danish cities such as Aarhus, Aalborg and Odense in Denmark, and in the Greenlandic capital Nuuk.

**Serious foreign policy crisis**

The actions of the American president have created unrest and insecurity in Greenland, says Professor Rasmus Bertelsen.

– This is a society that has been colonized before. And it is a society that is very much influenced by previous Danish colonization. My impression from people I know in Greenland is that this influences people very much, he tells NRK.

I would like to see the same kind of demonstrations in the US, but they don’t appear to understand that allowing their country to wage a war against Europe won’t leave them unscathed.