Denmark, Sweden jointly arrest 5 terror suspects
Source: Xinhua
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) said Wednesday that the PET and the Swedish Security Service (SAPO) have jointly arrested five individuals suspected of plotting a terror attack in Copenhagen. The arrests were made at two flats in Herlev and Greve, both municipalities of Copenhagen. The PET believed that the suspects were preparing a terror attack on the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen.
Three of the suspects are living in Sweden and have entered Denmark during the night of Dec. 28-29, including a 44-year-old Tunisian, a 29-year-old Swede, born in Lebanon, and a 30-year-old Swede, whose country of origin is so far unknown.
Simultaneously, the Swedish authorities in Stockholm have arrested a 37-year old Swedish national of Tunisian origin.
The last one is a 26-year old Iraqi asylum seeker, who is living in Denmark.
In Denmark, the PET have seized several objects, including some plastic strips that can be used as handcuffs as well as a machine gun with matching silencer and live ammunition.
"With these arrests we have succeeded in repelling an imminent terror attack," PET Director General Jakob Scharf said in a statement.
He said several of the suspects "must be considered militant Islamists with relations to international terror networks."
The suspects arrested will be charged on Thursday in Copenhagen.
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| Head of Denmark's PET security police Jakob Scharf (R) and Director-General of Sweden's security service SAPO Anders Danielsson talk to the media at a news conference in Copenhagen December 29, 2010. Danish police arrested five people suspected of planning a Mumbai-style attack to kill as many people as possible in a building housing a Danish newspaper that outraged Muslims in 2005 with cartoons of Prophet Mohammad. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) |
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) said Wednesday that the PET and the Swedish Security Service (SAPO) have jointly arrested five individuals suspected of plotting a terror attack in Copenhagen. The arrests were made at two flats in Herlev and Greve, both municipalities of Copenhagen. The PET believed that the suspects were preparing a terror attack on the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen.
Three of the suspects are living in Sweden and have entered Denmark during the night of Dec. 28-29, including a 44-year-old Tunisian, a 29-year-old Swede, born in Lebanon, and a 30-year-old Swede, whose country of origin is so far unknown.
Simultaneously, the Swedish authorities in Stockholm have arrested a 37-year old Swedish national of Tunisian origin.
The last one is a 26-year old Iraqi asylum seeker, who is living in Denmark.
In Denmark, the PET have seized several objects, including some plastic strips that can be used as handcuffs as well as a machine gun with matching silencer and live ammunition.
"With these arrests we have succeeded in repelling an imminent terror attack," PET Director General Jakob Scharf said in a statement.
He said several of the suspects "must be considered militant Islamists with relations to international terror networks."
The suspects arrested will be charged on Thursday in Copenhagen.
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