Former Danish Justice Minister Karen Haekkerup sorry statement that she took the initiative to Eritrea report.

I'm sorry.

So says now from former Attorney Karen Haekkerup (S) that Friday has come under scrutiny for a TV clip to have said that she made sure to send Immigration to Eritrea to make a report on the situation in the East African country.

- TV2 has today shown a clip which shows that it is I who have sent employees to Eritrea, she wrote in an email to AFP.

- That it was on my initiative is not true, and I would therefore like to apologize for my opinions.

- I would like to stress that I have had nothing with neither mission, preparation of Eritrea report or its conclusions to make. Justice Minister Mette Frederiksen has given correct information to parliament, she writes.

In the TV clip from TV2, which has not previously been brought, said the then Minister of Justice, among other things:

- I slam on the brakes now and ensure that the Immigration leaving for Eritrea and examine whether we can send these people back, says Hækkerup in the television interview.

This was in contrast to the information provided by her successor in office, Mette Frederiksen (S) has given to parliament.

The current Minister of Justice uphold that the highly controversial report on Eritrea - whose conclusions have been denounced by both sources, experts and even some of the authors - was made at the initiative of the Danish Immigration Service itself.

The report concludes sensational that conditions in the closed country have improved and that people fleeing the country's peculiar military service may well avoid reprisals by to apologize and pay a small sum of money.

It has subsequently aroused curiosity, that Karen Haekkerup in a statement stressed that she personally would "take action" against this year's massive influx of asylum seekers from Eritrea.

It happened when she launched the Danish Immigration Eritrea study.

Wednesday said Mette Frederiksen to the press that she "does not believe" that Karen Hækkerup in his time interfered in Eritrea study.

 Google Translate of Danish article found here