Danish police still searching for 4 terrorism suspects after arrests

[December 15, 2023]  COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Two people were remanded in custody in Denmark on Friday on suspicion of plotting a terrorism attack, while another four suspects were still sought by police, Danish prosecutors said. 

Danish police on Thursday apprehended three suspects in the case, one of whom was later released.

Chief police inspector and operational chief of PET, Flemming Drejer and senior police inspector and head of emergency services in Copenhagen Police, Peter Dahl give a press briefing on coordinated police action, at the police station in Copenhagen, Thursday 14 December 2023. Ritzau Scanpix/Martin Sylvest via REUTERS/File Photo

A court ordered that the four missing suspects were remanded "in absentia", the Copenhagen Police Prosecution service said, meaning that they can be taken into custody if found.

Seven people, including four suspected Hamas members, were arrested in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands on Thursday on suspicion of planning attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe.

It was not immediately clear if there was a link between the arrests in the three countries.

(Reporting by Louise Breusch Rasmussen, editing by Terje Solsvik)

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