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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Police in Copenhagen have set up four no go zones aimed at barring violent offenders from popular night-life areas in a bid to reduce violence in a country known for its low crime rates. Under a new law, Danish courts can exclude people convicted of violent crime from night life zones set up by police, effectively controlling after-dark access to whole streets popular with partygoers. We have definitely got a new tool, a tool that affects the few, but which helps the many, Copenhagen police inspector Tommy Laursen told Reuters. In an early application of the new law, a court in Helsingor last week gave a 24-year-old Dane a five-month prison sentence for violent behaviour. In addition, he was handed a nine-months ban from visiting pubs, restaurants and places that serve alcohol between midnight and 5 a.m. as weall as being excluded from night-life zones. In Copenhagen, prosecutors will on Monday use the new law in a violent crime case against a 31-year-old man. De

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