Influencer Reports Pia Kjærsgaard to Police for Pushing Her — Kjærsgaard Calls It Pure Fabrication

Afrah al-Jabouri, a Muslim influencer with more than 67,000 TikTok followers, told Berlingske on Thursday that she has reported Pia Kjærsgaard, 79, the founder and former leader of Dansk Folkeparti, to the police for violence, and that she gave a statement last week.

She says Kjærsgaard pushed her four times during and between recordings of TV 2's "Højskolen": three times at the breakfast table and once by the toilets, where the celebrities were not on camera. She says she has witnesses. In the episode, the two clashed over images Kjærsgaard said came from al-Jabouri's TikTok, which al-Jabouri says were manipulated.

“At indgive falske anklager er en meget alvorlig forbrydelse.”

“Filing false accusations is a very serious crime.”

— Rasmus Munch Søndergaard (@Rasmus_MunchS) on X, 8 October

Denials from the room

Kjærsgaard rejects the accusation and, according to Berlingske, calls it pure fabrication. Nicolai Würtz of BBC Studios Nordic Productions, the programme's chief, says the team knew there was a bad atmosphere between the two women, but neither he nor colleagues present can recognise that anything physical happened. The toilet episode, he says, was a narrow passage where neither would make way. Venstre's group leader Morten Dahlin, who was at the breakfast table, wrote on X: "Bad atmosphere? Yes. Violence? No!"

Lawyer and activist Rasmus Munch Søndergaard says Kjærsgaard should get a lawyer at once, demand to see the police file with al-Jabouri's report, and test the accusations against the video recordings and the witnesses. If the report is provably false, he says, al-Jabouri should be reported to the police for filing a false report.

What the law says

His penalty comparison holds up on paper. Under section 164 of the Danish criminal code, giving false information to the authorities with intent to get an innocent person charged carries up to six years in prison. Simple violence under section 244 carries up to three. The 31-year-old whose punch killed Swedish police officer Christian Zedig on Islands Brygge was convicted under the simple-violence provision and got one year on 7 October.

Section 164 requires intent; a report that is merely wrong is not enough, and a report of a crime that never happened falls under the milder section 165, with a maximum of six months. No authority has said whether al-Jabouri's report is true or false. The police have not commented.