Facebook post paints a different picture of Messerschmidt's tour to pro-Russian party leader

According to the party's leader, it was an official meeting with the DF chairman. Messerschmidt denies this and maintains that it was a private tour.

Vladislav Dajković, leader and founder of Slobodna Crna Gora (Free Montenegro, ed.), has posted a video on the social media platform Instagram from his visit to Christiansborg. (Photo: Screenshot from Dajković's Instagram profile). 47 minutes ago Updated 22 minutes ago

19.25: Updated with Dajković's written comment to Berlingske.

A post from the pro-Russian right-wing party Slobodna Crna Gora (Free Montenegro, ed.) on Facebook paints a different picture of Morten Messerschmidt's tour for the party's leader, Vladislav Dajković, at Christiansborg.

Earlier today, the DF chairman described Monday's tour as purely private.

But in the Facebook post, which is three days old, Free Montenegro describes it conversely as an official meeting.

- The meeting focused on Europe's current political and security architecture, the necessity of preserving national sovereignty, as well as the increasingly vocal opposition to the alienated bureaucratic apparatus in Brussels, which systematically undermines the traditional values of Europe's historical nations, the post states, among other things.

Screenshot of the pro-Russian right-wing party Free Montenegro's Facebook post from last Monday.

Messerschmidt maintains that it was a private tour.

- I have never met him before and probably won't again. I have a good friend here in Denmark who reached out and asked if I would show around and meet this Montenegrin local politician. I said yes during my summer holiday, or here in the break, the DF chairman says on TVA 18.30.

If the tour had been made in a more official political context, the Danish People's Party would probably have done a different kind of background check. But that wasn't done, he continues.

- It was purely informal and friendly.

Nevertheless, he regrets that he or the party did not do a proper background check on Dajković.

- I actually had no idea who he was.

Despite Dajković's pro-Russian views, Morten Messerschmidt emphasizes that he did not hide his stance on Russia's "unacceptable" war of aggression and "Ukraine's freedom struggle."

Wasn't it careless of you as party chairman?

- As a party leader, you apparently have to be more careful about who you do favors for. I am willing to take that on myself, the DF chairman responds.

- Now I am being used in some big international media circus and by the other parties.

The conclusion after this case is clear for Messerschmidt:

- I think I'm just done giving tours.

DR News is trying to get a comment from Free Montenegro and Dajković.

In a statement to Berlingske, Dajković writes that the meeting was arranged through a mutual acquaintance, that they neither talked about Russia nor Vladimir Putin, and that he had not expected to become "the star of the day in the Danish media."

- But the story doesn't end there. Even Denmark's Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs, as well as a number of other members of the Danish government, have commented on the case and have even gone so far as to link my visit to Copenhagen with Vladimir Putin – which is absurd and completely untrue, he writes to Berlingske.

He writes that he does not agree with Messerschmidt's view that the meeting was of a 'touristic nature'. But neither "Russia nor, certainly, Putin" was discussed, Berlingske quotes him as saying.

Messerschmidt said earlier today that he should have been more cautious, after his tour for Dajković at Christiansborg sparked massive criticism from both red and blue politicians.

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