The Israeli embassy in Denmark was indeed the target of the grenades which were thrown nearby, according to the pre-indictment of the two suspects cited Thursday by the Danish press. Two young Swedish men aged 17 and 19 were presented before a judge in Copenhagen who remanded them for an additional 20 days. According to the pre-indictment, which sets out the ongoing investigation, they are suspected of having contravened the law on terrorism for having wanted “throw hand grenades at the Israeli embassy in Denmark on October 2”reported the Ritzau agency, present at the hearing.
The grenades landed on the terrace of a house next to the embassy, where they exploded early in the morning of October 2. The incident did not cause any injuries. The two Swedes were arrested at Copenhagen station a few hours after the explosions, initially simply suspected of having violated weapons laws.
The description of their crime has since been changed and the police, who also arrested a man in his fifties in this case, are looking for other accomplices. “It makes no sense to imagine that this was an act they committed alone. There must be accomplices”prosecutor Søren Harbo said at the start of the hearing, according to Ritzau. Both young men deny the accusations. In a context of extreme tension in the Middle East, the incident comes against a backdrop of rising violence between gangs, with Danish criminal gangs being suspected of recruiting underage Swedes for score-settling.
