With the Mohammed cartoons, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten famous - you now need the sheet to have been target of an attack. Five suspects were arrested. Denmark's Justice Minister said so far the most serious assassination attempt in the country. Copenhagen - Danish police have arrested four people for an alleged planned terrorist attack against the newspaper Jyllands-Posten.In Sweden, a person had been arrested. As the Danish intelligence service PET on Wednesday announced that an armed attack was imminent against the Copenhagen offices of the newspaper. Three of the four suspects were arrested in Denmark who live in Sweden and traveled in the early hours of Wednesday after Denmark.
The Danish Justice Minister, said that the suspects had a "militant Islamist background." The attempted attack was the most serious so far in Denmark. trade at the suspects it is a 44-year-old Tunisian, a 29-year-old Lebanese and a 30-year-old, whose identity was not yet known in detail, PET chief Jakob Scharf said.
In the fourth suspect who had not entered from Sweden, if it were a 26-year-old asylum seeker from Iraq who live in Copenhagen. According to the Danish news agency Ritzau was also arrested in Stockholm, a 37-year-old Swede of Tunisian origin. "The suspects would enter the building and kill as many people as possible," PET-chief Jacob Scharf said in Copenhagen.
The arrest was a close cooperation with the Swedish police preceded, said Scharf. The four arrested in Denmark threatened an indictment for attempted terrorist activities. They should be brought before a judge on Thursday. With the arrests in the Copenhagen suburbs Herlev and Greve, police found including a machine pistol with silencer and ammunition.
"The attack should be carried out according to our findings in the next few days," said Scharf. The parties had "links with international terrorist networks." Details he did not name. Jyllands-Posten had published twelve cartoons in 2005 with the Prophet Mohammed, which is considered by orthodox Muslims as blasphemous.
Early 2006, massive protests erupted in Muslim countries, where more than 150 people were killed. The cartoonist Kurt Westergaard for his drawing of Muhammad repeatedly threatened with death. The principal editors of Jyllands-Posten in Aarhus is also considered extremely well secured as the capital of editorial at the Copenhagen Town Hall Square.
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