Man shot had opened fire on the police. Police believe he acted alone, but had not yet certainty Sunday morning
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Alarm clock in shock for the Danish population who learns that the Danish police shot a man Sunday morning in Copenhagen, hours after two shootings that two dead and five wounded in the Danish capital. Man shot had opened fire on security forces, police said, which “now investigating whether the person could be behind the shootings” Saturday in a cultural center and about the synagogue in Copenhagen. The exchange of fire between the man and the police took place in the popular district of Nørrebro, where authorities had placed a home under surveillance.
“At a time given, a person who could related to the investigation arrived at the scene, “said the police. When the officers shouted at the man, “he opened fire.” None of the police who responded and shot was injured.
Two attacks
During the first attack, around 15:00 GMT, a man riddled with bullets a cultural center where there was a debate about Islam and freedom of expression, killing one person in the audience, a man aged 55, and wounding three policemen
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Then, gunshots rang out after midnight (2300 GMT) near the synagogue in Copenhagen. One person was fatally wounded in the head, a police officer was wounded in the leg and another in the arm.
“We assume it is the same culprit behind both business and we also assume that the culprit who was killed by police at Nørreport station is the person behind these killings, “said Chief Inspector Torben Jensen Molgaard to the press.
A young Jewish man
According to a Jewish community association, the young man killed was a Jew who was monitoring access to buildings during a ceremony was taking place inside.
The security forces released in the evening photo, apparently taken in a parking lot, a man wearing a dark jacket and a cap or hood burgundy, with an alert: 25 to 30 years old, about 1.85 m, athletic
“terrorist act”
After the first shooting, the head of the Danish government, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, denounced “an act of cynical violence.” He believes that “there is evidence that the shooting (…) was a political attack and therefore a terrorist act.”
Paris immediately condemned “in the strongest firmness “this” terrorist attack “. Washington spoke of a “deplorable” attack and offered to assist in the investigation
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Contacted by AFP, France’s ambassador to Denmark, François Zimeray, described a brutal assault on the cultural center, in which the artist was particularly Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks and that was the subject of several threats and attacks since the summer 2007 a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog’s body. “They shot at us from the outside. It was the same intention (against attack) Charlie Hebdo except that they were not able to enter, “he said.
” Intuitively I would say there were at least 50 shots, and the police tell us here 200. balls are passed through the doors and everyone was thrown to the ground “, said the ambassador. Dozens of people attended the debate under police protection. The windows were screened many impacts. And the BBC broadcast a recording which means the Ukrainian Inna Shevchenko, movement Femen, interrupted by dozens of shots slamming unabated.
The intelligence services (PET) indicated that the attack was “planned”.
The French Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, is expected in mid-day Sunday in Copenhagen.
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