Miljøordfører: Shipwrecked fishing boat is a disgrace

In the two and a half month have a burned out and shipwrecked fishing boat lying on the beach at Fanøs west coast.

Until now, neither the authorities, the ministry of the environment, the insurer or the estate after the stranded fishing boat had taken care to remove the dangerous wreck.

- Now my patience slipped up. It is a disgrace that the cutter is not long since removed. Therefore, I will next Wednesday to ask questions about the matter to the minister for the environment Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, says miljøordfører in the Social Christian Rabjerg Madsen to Ekstra Bladet.

Miljøordføreren has followed, among other things, Added the Magazine's coverage of the case.

- I agree that it may be the estate or the insurance company, which must stand for the removal. Taxpayers in the small island of Fanø municipality shall in each case not pay for, to a cutter accidentally lands on their island. Now the minister of the environment enter in the character, then that will put pressure on the parties to the case.

here goes far over the limit of what is reasonable. We live in a well-functioning welfare state, and here seems not just a ship wreck lie and float at the water's edge, says Christian Rabjerg Madsen to Ekstra Bladet.

The socialist miljøordfører shall be liable to fiskekutteren RI 524 James Roberts can be dangerous for people who are wading out to the wreck and for the environment.

Photo: Clean Beach of Fanø

- There is still the risk of a pollution even if the tanks are emptied, says Christian Rabjerg Madsen.

Byrådspolitikerne on the island of Fanø is also thoroughly tired of the situation. Here, the city council have sent an injunction to the bankruptcy estate, to get the cutter removed.

- It cannot be right that taxpayers have to pay to have removed the wreck. If you throw waste in nature, and we find out who has thrown it, so we send also a bill for the removal of the waste to the sinner, the mayor Sofie Valbjørn from the Alternative previously said to Ekstra Bladet.

It is the individual Jens Christian Friedrichsen, who have owned the now-stranded cutter. But Jens Christian Friedrichsen has gone bankrupt and can therefore not pay for the salvage.

Photo: Clean Beach of Fanø

The famous cutter was wrecked during a heavy January storm, where the crew had to be rescued in the country. Then drive the cutter around a few, until an attempt to save the ship was launched a few days later.

During this salvage went to a fire in the cutter, and the salvage had to be abandoned.