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Department store robbery causes major police response in Copenhagen

An attempted robbery at department store Illum was the cause of a large-scale police response in Copenhagen late on Thursday afternoon.

Published: 6 December 2018 19:38 CET
Department store robbery causes major police response in Copenhagen
Police respond to an alert of an armed man at the Illum store in central Copenhagen. Photo: Jens Astrup/Ritzau Scanpix

One person has been arrested, while another was detained by law enforcement while police assess that individual’s potential connection to the incident, duty officer Henrik Brix with Copenhagen Police told Ritzau.

Police were present in large numbers in the centre of the city on Thursday afternoon.

“We received a report of an armed man in Illum, which we reacted to,” Brix said.

The officer was unable to initially say whether the attempt had resulted in any goods being stolen.

Illum was closed as a result of the police operation, and trains were instructed not to stop at nearby Nørreport and Kongens Nytorv stations.

Both stations have since re-opened.

READ ALSO: Gas pistols fired in Copenhagen department store robbery

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Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

A Danish court on Thursday gave a two-month suspended prison sentence to a 31-year-old Swede for making a joke about a bomb at Copenhagen's airport this summer.

Published: 5 October 2023 17:11 CEST
Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

In late July, Pontus Wiklund, a handball coach who was accompanying his team to an international competition, said when asked by an airport agent that
a bag of balls he was checking in contained a bomb.

“We think you must have realised that it is more than likely that if you say the word ‘bomb’ in response to what you have in your bag, it will be perceived as a threat,” the judge told Wiklund, according to broadcaster TV2, which was present at the hearing.

The airport terminal was temporarily evacuated, and the coach arrested. He later apologised on his club’s website.

“I completely lost my judgement for a short time and made a joke about something you really shouldn’t joke about, especially in that place,” he said in a statement.

According to the public prosecutor, the fact that Wiklund was joking, as his lawyer noted, did not constitute a mitigating circumstance.

“This is not something we regard with humour in the Danish legal system,” prosecutor Christian Brynning Petersen told the court.

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