According to the Copenhagen police, “the victims were chosen at random” and the suspect acted alone.
The Danish police confirmed this Monday that the attack committed on Sunday in a shopping center in the capital Copenhagen, it is not a terrorist actbefore adding that the suspect has a psychiatric history The event resulted in at least three deaths and four injuries.
“There is nothing to indicate that this is a terrorist act,” said Copenhagen Police Superintendent Soren Thomassen. “Our rating is that it is randomly chosen victims“, he said, emphasizing that the suspect would have prepared the attack, without the motives being known at the moment.
Likewise, Thomassen has emphasized that the police have conducted several operations in recent hours in connection with the incident, which took place at the Fields shopping center. “We worked through the night. We carried out house searches and analyzed documents,” said the Copenhagen police chief, pointing out that the suspect would have acted alone
Thomassen has released more details about the victims. The three deceased are two 17-year-old Danish citizens and a 47-year-old man of Russian nationality living in Denmark. Among the four injured are two Danes and two Swedes, including a 16-year-old teenager, according to Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has described the event as a “cruel attack” and has called on the population to stay united and offer support, Berlingske newspaper reported. “It’s incomprehensible, heartbreaking, meaningless. Our beautiful and safe capital has changed in a split second,” said Frederiksen, thanking the security forces, medical personnel and all those who helped.
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Source: EITB
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