As I’m sure you already know, the Copenhagen police tracked the shootings suspect to where he lived, there was gunfire, he was killed. No interviews, again. No doubt that was his intention, again.
Police say they killed the man in the Norrebro district after he opened fire on them.
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Police say video surveillance suggested the same man carried out both attacks. They do not believe any other people were involved.
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Officials said the gunman fled by car. A black Volkswagen Polo was found abandoned a short distance away.
Police said the gunman then called a taxi to take him home.
They used information from the taxi driver to identify the address, near the railway station in Norrebro. They released photos showing the alleged attacker wearing a purple balaclava and thick puffer jacket.
He called a taxi. That’s not the smartest move I can think of.
Hours later, a gunman opened fire outside a synagogue in Krystalgade street, about 5km from the scene of the first attack, killing a Jewish man and wounding two police officers.
The victim was named as Dan Uzan, 37. He had been on security duty while a bat mitzvah ceremony was taking place inside the synagogue.
So he got a taxi home, had some lunch, watched the news to see his own exploits reported, put on a clean shirt, and went back out to shoot some more.
Early on Sunday, police said they had been keeping the Norrebro address under observation, waiting for the occupant to return.
When the man appeared, he saw the officers, pulled out a gun and opened fire, police said. They returned fire and shot him dead.
Martyrdom achieved.
Then we get “analysis” from Malcolm Brabant.
It was always a case of not if but when. What’s surprising is that it has taken this long for Denmark to be scarred by a fatal terror attack.
In September it will be 10 years since the Jyllands Posten newspaper inflamed the Muslim world with the publication of 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, including one of him with a bomb in his turban.
Well that’s some god damn incompetent inaccurate “analysis” – it doesn’t even get the facts right, let alone the part about accusing Jyllands Posten of “inflaming” and the part about assuming all Muslims were “inflamed” as one. What a load of shit from a respected news source.
It wasn’t JP that “inflamed” a minority of Muslims, it was a group of Danish imams who did that. They did it on purpose with malice aforethought, months after the Motoons were published.
How nice, and how responsible, of the BBC to publish a factually untrue version of what happened, one that simply plays into precisely the misbegotten rage behind this campaign to murder all the cartoonists.
By “nice” I of course mean malevolent, and by “responsible” I mean how grotesquely reckless with the lives of people it should consider colleagues and allies.
This is quite true, or if it wasn’t them, it was an Islamic source. Hate speech can kill, and it’s important to point at the right hate speech. Blasphemy, on the other hand, never hurt anyone.
It was a specific group of imams, Anne – I believe 5 of them. They went on a tour of the Middle East to “inflame” outrage over the cartoons along with three fakes that they included for good measure. One was purported to be “Mohammed portrayed as a pig” but it was actually a photo from a contest at a French agricultural fair, nothing to do with Mohammed at all.
One of the imams has since repented of this stupid, dishonest and lethal act.
Apparently four people were arrested at an internet café around 15:30.
I wonder if I can find an English language report yet…[goes off to look]
Not to mention that ten to twelve years is an awfully long time for that causation to correlate.
4ozofreason @5
That was might thought as well when I read Brabant pseudo-analysis.
Meanwhile, the front page of the French paper Libération: “Vi er danskere” – which is Danish for “We are Danes”.
The lessons after the Charlie Hebdo massacre aren’t quickly forgotten.
Well, 20% repentance is an improvement. I’ve seen a page from an Egyptian tabloid that printed ALL 12 cartoons, months before any inflammation broke out. While I doubt the response was warm fuzzy approval, the murderous rage was a concoction of ISLAMISTS. THEY alone are responsible for violence.
We forget that ‘lone wolf’ crackpots have called for Dante to be banned (Mo appears in hell in the Inferno) or Michelangelo to be defaced (Mo is supposed to be depicted in the Last Judgment) all it takes is a few Imams and perhaps some oil money for anything to become an ‘offence.’
Libération of course is the paper that took in Charlie Hebdo after the massacre, sharing their space and equipment and giving them a big lump of cash.
Hate speech can kill, and it’s important to point at the right hate speech. Blasphemy, on the other hand, never hurt anyone
To someone who believes deeply, that’s not a difference.
That’s the problem with this situation; the killers see the blasphemy as incitement to violence. I think they’re completely wrong, but convincing them is the trick.
The BBC report doesn’t mention this, but the police have stated that he only spent around 20 minutes at his (presumed) adress after the taxi dropped him off. I don’t think anyone knows what he was doing between when he left the apartment at around 5 pm and the second shooting a 1 am, or indeed between the second shooting and his return to the apartment at (IIRC) 4.30 am – the distance between the two places is nowhere near great enough to explain the delay by itself.
Ah, that cartoon mess would’ve been funny if it would not have resulted in murder across the globe – they collected a bunch of cartoons, had a muslim cartoonist draw some ADDITONAL ones because they figured what they had wasn’t offensive enough and then toured all the extremist’s hangouts in all the dictatorships we support.