Denmark: police believe he killed the author of two shootings


The spotlight is on Copenhagen in Denmark after two deadly shootings, one yesterday afternoon, the other last night. And this morning, the police said it had killed a man who had opened fire on the police in the popular area of ​​Noerrebro. She then felt that this was the author of both attacks. "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 the press


Yesterday evening, the police had released a photo of a suspect wearing a dark jacket and a cap or hood burgundy, with a report stating that he had 25 to 30 years and that was about 1 85 m.


In the second shooting he was the author, which took place near the synagogue in Copenhagen last night, one person was wounded in the head. She died of her injuries. It would be a young Jew who supervised access to the building from a Jewish community association. According to the president of this association, the Jewish Security Council of the Nordic countries, a confirmation ceremony was underway in the synagogue at the time of the attack.


In the first shooting yesterday afternoon, the suspect riddled with bullets a cultural center where there was a debate on art, Islam and freedom of expression. The shooting killed one person, a man aged 55 years. Three policemen were injured.


In this debate involved the artist and cartoonist Lars Vilks Sweden has been the subject of several threats and attacks since the publication in 2007 of a drawing depicting the Prophet Mohammed.


France's ambassador to Denmark also attended the conference as Femen activist Inna Shevchenko. This is also when she spoke that the shots began to ring.


After cettte first shooting, the head of the Danish government, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, denounced "a cynical act of violence" and said that "every indication that the shooting (...) was a political attack and therefore a terrorist act .


Paris quickly condemned the attack. The French Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, is expected in mid-day today in Copenhagen.






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