An explosion was heard in the night some 500 meters from the Israeli embassy in Denmark, Copenhagen police said on Monday, five days after an attack on this diplomatic building. “We are of course trying to determine whether “There could be a link with the incident at the Israeli embassy,” Copenhagen police inspector Trine Møller told reporters. “There is no indication that this is the case,” she said. she added, however, specifying that the explosion was undoubtedly due to gunfire.
Images from the local press show traces of the explosion in front of an apartment building some 500 meters as the crow flies from the Israeli embassy. On the night of October 1 to 2, explosions occurred very close to the same embassy, probably caused by grenade throwing, in a context of tensions in the Middle East.
According to the prosecution, two young Swedes, aged 16 and 19, are suspected of having transported five grenades and having thrown two of them which landed on a terrace about a hundred meters from the diplomatic building. They were placed in detention by a judge on Thursday for 27 days. Two days later, police said the charges against them had been extended to offenses under terrorism legislation, without giving further details.
In Sweden, the Israeli embassy in Stockholm was targeted by gunfire, which caused no injuries on Tuesday. Swedish intelligence services have not ruled out Iranian involvement in these two incidents.
An explosion was heard in the night some 500 meters from the Israeli embassy in Denmark, Copenhagen police said on Monday, five days after an attack on the diplomatic building. “We are of course trying to determine if there could be a link with the incident at the Israeli embassy,” an inspector from…
