Recently I was in Copenhagen, a wonderful city, pottering around on Amagertorv on the crossing of Strøget and Højbro Plads.
Actually my camera spotted the two ladies walking around with videocams first and then my main subject of this post turned around and looked at me with with her clear blue eyes and part of her chicken outfit in her hands.
Maria Fantino seems to be a fancy name as per her Facebook account. Her real name is Maria Emilie Prehn Hansen, daughter of Jesper Lau Hansen, a Copenhage lawyer who has studied law in Camebridge (UK) as well.
Only later, after I had visited some stores in the neighbourhood I saw her again in a cage with her chicken outfit on. Only then she had my real attention while Svenne Lund Jensen was circling around her and kind of interviewed her with an IPhone. When I asked her why she was sitting in the cage she replied that she was contesting to be elected into the Copenhagen City Council. Chickens should be free walking around according to her. I commented I thought she was part of a Hen party or in the race to be married soon. She hadn’t thought of that. It is not clear whether this is real or just an assignment from her school of an assignment from Danske Radio where she seemed having been elected into a super team of 4 outsiders to try to get into the Danish radio or tv scene. 4 succeeded of 1,000 applicants. As she is not particular active on Facebook or Twitter or Google social media, I doubt it is real, but maybe she’ll see this post and comment some time in the future.
She’s probably not aware that we in the Netherlands even have a pro animals party in Parliament….