The Kingdom of Denmark is set to cover the costs of an integration plan and a prosthetic leg for Nigerian pirate Lucky Frances, who was granted Danish residency just two years after attacking the Danish Navy off the coast of Africa.
Frances, who lost his leg in a firefight after his band of pirates launched a daring attack on the Danish navy’s Esbern Snare frigate in 2021, is now set to receive taxpayer-funded aid for employment, education, and social integration.
This support, according to Denmark’s BT newspaper, comes as compensation for the injuries he sustained when the Navy shot off his leg during the clash.
Not only did the pirate avoid imprisonment for attacking the Danish sailors, despite being found guilty, but he was also granted a residence permit to remain in the country earlier this year.
Adding insult to injury, a court ordered that the state pay for the Nigerian national to be fitted with a prosthetic leg courtesy of the state health service.
“This is absolutely absurd. That man should never have been in Denmark and to imagine that he can now be meaningfully integrated in Denmark is completely over the moon,” said integration spokesman for the conservative-populist Danish People’s Party, Mikkel Bjørn.
Asked if it would be better to try to integrate Lucky, Bjørn retorted: “Well, his skills are to be a pirate, right? In any case, I can’t see that he can make a meaningful contribution to Danish society.”
“No, he shouldn’t be let out at all. He has tried to kill Danish soldiers, and therefore he should be in prison or in a closed immigration center,” he added.
Even liberal Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said per Newsweek: “I cannot defend this decision.”
Breitbart report: While the Nigerian pirate initially expressed some desire to return to his homeland, he later applied for asylum in Denmark and was granted a residence permit to remain in the country in January.
Speaking last year, Lucky said: “I don’t want to go back and live the life I lived before. It’s too physically demanding, I can’t do it with just one leg.
“If I am going back to Africa, I need to be strong, to have a future. You have to be able to work hard there if you want to survive, and I can’t do that now.”
Following the disclosure this week of the state entering into an “integration contract” with her client, the pirate’s attorney Emma Ring Damgaard said: “This makes good sense… There is a long and painful rehabilitation program ahead. You can’t just send him back to Nigeria.”
