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22: 396:(PET) and police arrested around 20 people throughout Denmark, 8 of whom have been charged with attempted terrorism. They had bought bomb-making materials and tried (unsuccessfully) to acquire firearms. It is unknown if their target was in Denmark or abroad, but the motive was radical Islamist ideology. 293:
beginning in the afternoon of 14 February at a public event called "Art, Blasphemy, and Freedom of Expression" at Krudttønden cultural centre, followed by another at the Great Synagogue just after midnight (i.e., 15 February), and finally the killing of the perpetrator in the early morning by police.
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on 5 September 2006. Four were charged and three of them were convicted of attempted terrorism. They were motivated by Islamic extremism and planned on detonating bombs in one or more locations in Denmark. The Danish Minister of Justice called the terrorist plot the most severe in the history of
207:- Danish police officers and Security Intelligence Service agents arrested eight, six of whom were released after questioning. The two remaining, described as Islamic militants with ties to Al Qaeda, were convicted in 2008 of planning terrorism with the use of bombs. 263:. In February 2013 they were charged with financing terrorism and terrorist training. The younger brother admitted to supporting Al-Shabaab in the district court. Upon appeal, both brothers were sentenced for attempted terrorist training in the appeals court. 902: 922: 1170: 947: 1185: 1137: 1142: 994: 1147: 1094: 1064: 1024: 1004: 984: 887: 1175: 999: 1195: 1180: 1127: 1079: 1074: 1049: 907: 1165: 1104: 1054: 1014: 967: 962: 937: 932: 912: 892: 882: 877: 872: 867: 1190: 1132: 1099: 1069: 1059: 1044: 1019: 989: 957: 917: 1084: 1009: 979: 316:- a 2016 plan to bomb two schools in Denmark, including a Jewish school in Copenhagen. The girl, 15 years old at the time of her plan and a recent convert to Islam, was convicted in 2017. 238:. In several raids, they detained five men, who were described as militant Islamists. Automatic weapons, together with ammunition and silencers, were seized by the police. 112:
terrorists. While no people were injured in the attack on the synagogue, a second bomb placed by the same group destroyed the Copenhagen offices of the American
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was hit by a bomb, and one person was killed. The attack is generally assumed to have been the work of far-right extremists, but the case remains unsolved.
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were arrested in May 2012 on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack and the elder was alleged to have undergone training by
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are attacks that were carried out, dates without boldface are the date of arrest in plots that were not carried out.
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also suspected the man to take part in the planning of an assassination against the leader of the Iranian group
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where an organized group has attempted an act of violence targeting innocents. Dates in
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Two victims and the perpetrator were killed, while five police officers were wounded.
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He was arrested in Gothenburg, Sweden on 21 October. 662:"Gerningsmanden skød med gevær som bruges i forsvaret" 611:"Police Arrest 'Militant Islamists' in Denmark Plot" 437:"27 Injured in 3 Terrorist Explosions in Copenhagen" 124:, were later convicted for these and other attacks. 374:Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz 1224: 108:and airline office were hit by a bomb placed by 416:(PET) and police arrested 13 people in Holbæk. 585:"Muhammedstriden gjorde Danmark til terrormål" 116:, killing one person and injuring 26. 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Index

Denmark
1985 Copenhagen bombings
Copenhagen
Hezbollah
Northwest Orient Airlines
Arabs residing in Europe
Mohammed Abu Talb
1992 Copenhagen bombing
International Socialists
Vollsmose terrorist trial
Odense
2007 Al Qaeda Plot in Copenhagen
2010 Copenhagen terror plot
Jyllands-Posten, the publisher of the controversial cartoons of Muhammad in 2005
Somali brothers residing in Denmark
Al-Shabaab
2015 Copenhagen shootings
Copenhagen
The Kundby case
2016 Copenhagen terror plot
Islamic State
Ringsted terror plot
PST
PET
Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz
Danish Security and Intelligence Service
Danish Security and Intelligence Service
"27 Injured in 3 Terrorist Explosions in Copenhagen"
Los Angeles Times
Associated Press

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