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(NewsNation) — Two American assemblage students person been successful Danish custody for much than 2 weeks aft an alleged altercation with their Uber driver, Copenhagen constabulary confirmed Monday.
Authorities accidental the brace person been charged with communal battle and are expected to enactment successful detention until April 24. On Monday, a household lawyer told NewsNation the students person not yet been charged with anything.
Owen Ray and a friend, who has requested not to beryllium named publically astatine this time, ordered an Uber during their outpouring interruption travel to Copenhagen, Denmark.
After realizing they enactment successful the incorrect address, the brace reportedly asked their operator to alteration their destination, but the operator allegedly refused.
Eventually, they each got retired of the car. Owen Ray’s mother, Sara Buchen-Ray, told NewsNation this was erstwhile the altercation occurred.
"He threatened helium was going to telephone 10 guys successful and instrumentality attraction of them. At that point, my lad yelled again, 'We've done thing wrong, delight telephone the police,'” Buchen-Ray said.
“And helium kicked Owen successful betwixt the legs. Owen went down. The different kid knocked him down, and they ran away. They were scared," she added.
The Uber operator claims Ray and his person didn't pay.
Danish authorities arrested the brace astatine the airdrome connected April 1 arsenic they prepared to alert home, labeling them a formation risk.
NewsNation nationalist information contributor Tracy Walder said she had been speechmaking Danish quality astir the situation, which reports the Uber operator was hospitalized.
"He is alleging beauteous terrible battle that the boys inflicted connected him. Now, I don't know, obviously, if that's true, and I don't cognize what precipitated each of it, but my conjecture is that's wherefore they are being held for arsenic agelong arsenic they are," Walder said.
She added that, erstwhile faced with a questionable concern abroad, radical should ever grounds themselves.
"Start the grounds fastener connected your compartment telephone truthful you're conscionable not relying connected the cab driver's mentation of events," Walder said.
Buchen-Ray said the incidental is simply a elemental misunderstanding and that her son's clip down bars is baffling household members and ineligible scholars alike.
The State Department is reportedly involved; however, Buchen-Ray said nary 1 has reached retired to the family.
Complicating matters further is Denmark’s five-day Easter tribunal holiday, which could hold a imaginable proceedings adjacent longer. Unlike successful the United States, suspects of insignificant crimes successful Denmark tin beryllium jailed for 4 weeks astatine a time, for up to six months, without being charged.
