He Spelled Out the PM's Phone Number, Then Masked Men Cut His Power
Lars Andersen says two civilian-dressed, masked men entered his Copenhagen apartment, cut the electricity at the source, and seized his cameras and SIM cards. His Nest cameras had already flipped to local recording, so police took that footage too.
The trigger was a post he titled "my two favorite numbers": a 10-digit and an 8-digit figure written out in letters, which turned out to be Danish PM Mette Frederiksen's social-security and phone number. Frame him as a privacy martyr and the raid looks like state revenge, especially given the same PM's push for warrantless medical-record access and chat-control rules.
But Danes who know him describe an ex-cop turned anarcho-capitalist who has bolted GPS trackers onto ministers' cars and doxed their children.
A doxing dressed up as two favorite numbers
Lars Kragh Andersen says on Twitter that two men in civilian clothes and masks entered his apartment, cut the power directly at the source, and carried off his cameras and SIM cards. His Google Nest cameras had switched to local recording when the electricity dropped, and police seized that footage as evidence. The provocation was a post he called "my two favorite numbers" — a 10-digit and an 8-digit number spelled out in letters, which decoded to Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's social-security and phone numbers. To his readers it was a stunt about surveillance hypocrisy; to the state it was an apparent doxing of the head of government.
That clean martyr story collapses the moment Danes start talking. One local lays out the full picture the headline omits:
"He obviously goes over the line, he tried to put GPS trackers on the cars of ministers. He 'stalks' their families, and dox their children online. … On the flip-side, he's sort of right." — a Dane with local knowledge of him
The hypocrisy thread he trades on is real and documented. As one commenter recounts, Andersen once sent a prosecutor the exact threatening text that prosecutor had already declined to pursue when a third party reported it:
"Lars got jail time for that." — a commenter citing the prior case
Others refuse the activist label entirely. "Lars Andersen is also a right-wing extremist who regularly posts racist content," wrote one commenter, arguing the free-speech crusade is partly cover — a claim another reader immediately challenged for an example. Blunter still:
"Nobody in Denmark actually thinks of Lars Andersen as any sort of serious privacy activist. He is a drug-addled moron who just happens to dabble in those things." — a commenter disputing the premise
The discomfort runs deeper than one unsympathetic man. A raid that cuts the power to kill the cameras tests the principle precisely when the person filming is someone you'd rather not defend. Read the full exchange in the thread.
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