From 1933 to 1980, around 15,000 children and adults with disabilities including blindness, epilepsy and physical or mental handicaps were committed to state-run centres for various periods of time, and were subjected to abuse.
An inquiry ordered by the previous Danish government in 2020 found a series of abuses at the centres that also included violence. / Photo: Getty Images
"The state had... an obligation of oversight, and did not sufficiently do its job," social affairs minister Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil told a group of around 50 victims from the period in the western city of Horsens on Monday."What happened to you is far below the Denmark we believe in. We will never forget what happened to you –– and what happened to you will never happen again.
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