Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[DW] Three suspects were arrested in Denmark, and one was arrested in the Netherlands. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later claimed that the suspects were linked to bad boy group Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...Danish police said they prevented a terror attack on Thursday after announcing that four people had been arrested.
Three suspects were arrested in Denmark, and a fourth was arrested in the Netherlands.
"The investigation has revealed that a network of people has been preparing a terrorist act," said Flemming Drejer, chief superintendent of the Danish intelligence agency, PET.
"The arrests and the raids we're carrying out today are based on an intensive investigation that PET has carried out in close cooperation with our partners abroad," Drejerm said.
Police raids were ongoing across the country, he added.
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE ALLEGED TERROR PLOT?
Drejer said the suspects would face a custody hearing within 24 hours, likely behind "double closed doors," meaning that he could not give details about the case, any target or motive.
He said the arrests were "carried out in close collaboration with our foreign partners" and that police had "a special focus" on Jewish institutions.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later said the suspects were operating "on behalf of" Hamas, which is considered a terror group by the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
and several other governments.
"This is extremely serious," Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on the sidelines of the year's final EU summit in Brussels.
"It is of course — in relation to Israel and Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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— completely unacceptable for someone to bring a conflict elsewhere in the world into Danish society," she said.
"For a number of years now, we have seen that there are people living in Denmark who do not wish us well," she added, "who are against our freedom and who are against Danish society, with all that it entails."
Later on Thursday, German prosecutors announced three arrests of suspected Hamas members in Berlin and another in Rotterdam. Danish security officials said there is no direct link between the two sets of arrests
Danish intelligence agency PET on Thursday announced the arrests of three people on suspicion of plotting to carry out "an act of terror." One of them, identified by Danish media as a 29-year-old man, was released, prosecutor Anders Larsson said early Friday after a night-long custody hearing at a Copenhagen court. nvestigation in Germany.
Larsson also said that four other people were held in "pretrial custody in absentia," but he didn’t say whether authorities knew their whereabouts or if an active search for them was underway. Without elaborating, he said there was "still someone on the lam."