No inquest into danish backpackers death

By Andrew West

BBC News, Copenhagen


The body of a 23-year-old German national whose body was found in a dunes in a Danish tourist resort is being treated as an accident.

The search operation for the young man, whose name was not revealed to police, has now been extended into the south of the country - where he was reported missing - after two members of an Israeli team spotted the body and tried to search for it.

A police officer said that the body had not yet been positively identified as that from whom he was found - and that there was concern about how it was buried.

The search operation is continuing and there is no indication that any arrests have been made.

Mr Dehaay told reporters that police had found the man's mobile phone, saying that "he had no means of contact with anybody and that if he tried to make contact, he would have been ignored or taken off the radar."

Police are now trying to establish whether the death is a suicide or a murder-suicide.

One of the two Israeli police investigators involved in the search, Raphael Ben-Shalit, says he has not seen Mr Dehaay or anything else suspicious in the dunes, but hopes the body will be found by next week.

'Possibility that the body is a suicide'

Danish daily newspaper Politiken reported that Israeli security agencies had been called in to help in the search for the young man, whose parents are Israeli Jews, and the man's girlfriend from France.

But police in Denmark refused to confirm it, saying there were no confirmed reports of an accident in the area of the discovery site.

Mr Ben-Shalit has a history with Israeli security services, having spent a year in a unit with the Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip.

The investigation is being run by an internal disciplinary committee headed by police.

It has asked that the body be buried in a grave marked with the local county's flag. It is understood that the headstone was recently removed and this will be followed by a final resting place that police will put in place.

Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said the search operation was being run in cooperation with international investigators and she thanked the Israeli foreign ministry and police for helping to solve the case.

Last week, Danish police said they had searched dunes around a beach popular with tourists and would resume that search after more time had passed.

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Vic. doctors like Dr. William Zemmer, who practices in the town of Haughton, are not the only ones trying to make sure medical pot won't turn patients into drug addicts or lead to more hospitalization.

They're among the hundreds of Victoria nurses who face fines or worse from the state Department of Health, who now has four months to decide what they will do about them, or leave the country.

"I can't afford it," Zemmer said of a $50,000 fine that he was expected to pay. "I've been telling everyone about my marijuana use and I have a job now and I've never even gone to jail for it."

The fine was one of more than $100,000 Victoria's top doctor faces because he has recommended more hospitalizations for patients with a documented marijuana use disorder. The state Department of Health said in an Oct. 2 letter to nurses that the health department is also in the process of assessing nurses that will continue to practice in Victoria as of Nov. 1.

The state also will consider whether to withhold funds to a nursing program in Haughton that helps patients with chronic illnesses like HIV and cancer control their prescription painkillers, said Health Department spokesman Jason Williams.

"We'll be watching closely to see if these individuals continue to practice and practice the same care," Williams said.

Victoria's nurses are being charged under the federal marijuana law, which has been struck down by U.S. courts and the Oregon Legislature, but also the state's medical marijuana law. The Oregon law goes further than Victoria's; it defines marijuana as a Schedule I chemical, the most dangerous and banned substance under federal law.

Under the federal law, pot is illegal to grow, manufacture or possess more than four plants, and to manufacture 1 ounce or less of pot; it also bars individuals from growing any more than four plants in their homes.

Under Victoria's medical marijuana law, doctors cannot recommend a particular kind of marijuana for patients with any particular condition - even one that is already covered under medical marijuana.

There is no drug-treatment registry, so most doctors can prescribe marijuana for medical conditions when an individual chooses, but when it comes to marijuan