Denmark arrests 20 over attack plot

Copenhagen: Danish police said Wednesday they had arrested 20 people suspected of planning “attacks”.

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The suspects had tried to acquire weapons and explosive devices, police said.

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“Police searched 20 addresses and arrested 20 people”, Copenhagen police chief Jorgen Bergen Skov said at a press conference.

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He did not specify the target of the possible attack but said police had arrested all the suspects it had on its radar.

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“They are people who have both the intent and ability to commit a terrorist attack,” Bergen Skov said.

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The suspects will be brought before a judge on Thursday for closed-door hearings.

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Denmark was last hit by militant attacks in 2015 when Copenhagen’s Great Synagogue was targeted in a shooting which saw one security officer killed after an earlier attack on a conference on freedom of expression also left one person dead.

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Five police officers were injured in the twin attacks. Officers gunned down and killed the 22-year-old perpetrator Omar El-Hussein, a Danish citizen of Palestinian origin who had pledged allegiance to Daesh.

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