At least three people were wounded early Sunday morning in a shooting attack at the Great Synagogue in central Copenhagen, Denmark, according to multiple media reports.
One person was shot in the head and two policemen were shot in the arm and leg in the attack, according to the reports. Officials say it is unclear if the attack is connected to an earlier deadly assault on a Cafe in the city.
The gunman fled the scene on foot, and a manhunt is underway, The Times of Israel reported.
“We cannot say anything about the condition of the injured yet,” Copenhagen police said.
Sky News cameraman Pete Milnes, who was near the scene of the attack, said: “There was a succession of about six or seven gunshots.
“Within a minute or so, armed police were on the scene, a helicopter was hovering overhead. I witnessed police apprehend an individual who was handcuffed and later released.
“There was 20 to 30 armed police officers with semi-automatic rifles shouting at locals to stay indoors and close windows.”
A photo published on Twitter purported to show a wounded policeman and another person lying injured, Sky News reported.
Danish television station TV2 said a large metro and train station nearby, Norreport, was being evacuated, Reuters reported.
In a WhatsApp post, Rabbi Yitzi Loewenthal, the Chabad representative in Copenhagen, said he was at the synagogue just minutes before the attack and that his own center is now under lock-down.
“BH we are all fine. I was at the shul 30 minutes before it happened,” Loewenthal wrote. “Chabad house (where we also live) is in full lockdown. Police with machine guns have now closed the chabad house street at both ends. Helicopters and sirens all around. Barricaded all doors.”
A former member of the Copenhagen Jewish community, now living in the US, told The Algemeiner that “the Jews in Denmark, who mainly live in Copenhagen, feel like most European Jews — it’s safe as long as you stay stealth. Don’t wear anything ‘Jewish’, don’t talk about Israel or anything Jewish in public, and you’ll be safe.”
The source, who did not wish to be named, added that “increasing Muslim immigration combined with increasing radicalization amongst a minority of this Muslim immigrant group has caused some trouble for the Jews in the past 10-20 years.”
So scary.
Denmark doesn’t have so many Arabs. Sweden is crazy they took in so much! I feel for Rabbi Namdar, Kesselman and Grisman. Everyone in Kla’al Yisroel should stay safe and Moshiach Should come now!
The Rebbe said Israel is the safest place in the world. Tomid eyney hashem elokecha bah
Going to Israel is not safe anymore, not because Hashem is not watching over it but because of Netanyahu and his predecessor’s foolish and reckless actions to deal with the terrorrists PLO. As our wise Rebbe clearly warned.
When you have rockets fired on you all the time, shooters and axe hackers in shuls, cars running over Jews at bus stops, random stabbings all over the place this is not any safer than Europe or the USA.
It was rich of Netanyahu to tell the French Jews to come to Israel. Safer indeed !!???
It’s probably more safe in the US than in Europe. Meanwhile don’t be a victim — if not possible to be armed where you are then at least learn defensive measures.
THE job of an American president is not to wipe the tears of the Jews, so stop mixing Obama into it.
He runs America allowing us to live as we please.
Where can we go – to the moon? It’s not really safe anywhere.
He wasn’t conparing the two he was trying to bring out a point, that with brainwashed people there’s no solution.
While our community shares no political ideology with the Neturai Karta, and that is an understatement, I would not compare them, l’havdil, to Islamist extremist murderers. You do your people no service with such statements (and that’s another understatement.)
your comparison to the NK is a bit ridiculous
LEAVE. Make Aliyah, it’s the only hope for European Jewry. Don’t bother coming to the US, it’s getting that way there as well. It won’t be long before the same kind of things will happen in the US.
There is no solution. Just as we have Naturei karta and there is no solution, they have brainwashed idealists or psychopaths, but there are millions of them instead of a few hundred. There are over 2 billion Muslims in the world.
It is time for the danes to all put on yarmulkas just like they all put on yellow mogen dovid bands during the nazi era to save the Yidden
Every shul needs to have several members who are armed and trained. Wouldn’t be a bad idea for at least one of them to be a woman, attackers won’t be looking behind the mechitza.
In response to this story, a van from counter terrorism just parked outside 770.
To no.2
Just a “Bunch of fellows” we’re shot.
To quote the President.
It’s clear that this was a random act. Gunman was running and coincidentally fired at a Synagogue.
Signed,
– B. Hussein Obama
Just a “random act” according to Obama
And as these attacks continue to spread…leaders non Jewish and shockingly Jewish refuse to say what needs to be said in order to fight this…and that is Islamic terror is becoming so widespread and not challenged we maybe turning a corne.. hashem yishmor