COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Danish police have arrested several people suspected of planning to attack one of the cartoonists who drew controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed for Denmark's biggest daily in 2005, police said Tuesday.
The Danish intelligence agency PET "conducted a police operation at 4:30 am (0330 GMT) in the Aarhus region, in cooperation with local police, to prevent a murder linked to terrorism," PET chief Jakob Scharf said in a statement.
The raid was carried out "after lengthy surveillance."
PET did not indicate how many people had been arrested, nor their identities or nationalities, nor the identity of the cartoonist targetted in the plan.
Public service Danmarks Radio said however that five people were arrested, including three Danish nationals. All five were of Muslim background, it said.
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RIOTING IN DENMARK CENSORED BY BBC.
WHEN IT STARTS HERE WILL IT ALSO BE COVERED UP?
The riots which started six nights ago (Feb. 9th) in Nørrebro have spread out to the rest of Copenhagen and other cities around the country (see Google map of the fires). Witnesses in one case described the rioters as "second generation immigrants". The riots included burning cars and trash containers, throwing Molotov cocktails at schools and municipal buildings, and throwing stones at police and emergency services. I will not be listing every car set aflame, but I try here to give a general overview of what's been happening, as reported in Denmark's major newspapers.
Schools in and around Copenhagen were the target of Molotov cocktails Thursday night. The worst hit was the Værebroskolen in the Copenhagen suburb of Bagsværd, where ten classrooms were burned down. The fire brigade was called in to deal with at least 20 fires in the city. Berlingske Tidende offers a picture gallery of the fires in Greater Copenhagen.
Police are being accused of using racist language against immigrant-background youth during the recent nights of unrest in inner Nørrebro. There are complaints of needless ID checks. Social workers were also accosted by the police and treated harshly. One of them reported that though he showed his ID, he was searched and forced to take down his pants.
There were disturbances in other parts of Denmark as well. North-Zealand police received reports of 7-8 cars burning in Kokkedal in the evening. Later the situation escalated with container and car fires in Farum and Birkerød, all in North-Zealand. The police don't know the motive behind the attacks but say the rioters are clearly inspired by the exposure in the media.
In Aarhus there were also riots, concentrated around Brabrand, but there also cases of container fires in Risskov and Viby. One person was arrested for throwing stones at the police.
During the Friday prayers imams in Aarhus and Copenhagen will be urging young Muslims to stop the violence and riots.
Sources: Berlingske 1, 2, 3; Politiken 1, 2, 3; Nyhedsavisen (Danish)
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