One man was killed and two more wounded in a shoot-out outside a mosque in central Copenhagen on Tuesday morning.
The attacks came as worshippers left morning prayers on Eid, the festival that ends the Muslim month of fasting.
Police confirmed that the man had died within minutes after he was shot three times in the head, and that a second 50-year-old man was being treated in hospital. A third person, who rushed away in a private car, was shot in the leg.
“The guy who was shot fell down on his back, and then the other guy stood over him and emptied his clip into him,” said Jibran Sarwar, 35, who was leaving the mosque as the shooting began.
“It’s as if someone shot someone at a church mass on Christmas Eve. That’s the equivalent,” he continued. “It’s a day of celebration and now this guy’s parents are siitting at home and he’s in the morgue.”
Anti-Islamic feeling has been strengthening in Denmark ever since the conservative Jyllands-Posten newspaper outraged the Muslim world by publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.
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The support of the anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party, which is calling for re-establishing border controls and closing asylum centres, has become increasingly important for the ruling conservative coalition. The party won 13.9pc of the vote and 25 seats in the last election in 2007.
But Danish Police said that the involvement of racist far-Right groups has been ruled out.
“It was between Pakistani people and no one else. It’s not a hate crime or racism or anything like that,” said Deputy Inspector Lau Thygesen. “There was an argument before the shoot out and then one of them pulled a gun. We are sure that it’s not something that was planned.”
The shoot-out took place as a large crowd stood outside the mosque, waiting for those who had come to pray at nine in the morning to leave so they could attend the 10 o'clock.
The Muslim Cultural Institute is one of the city's biggest mosques, with a capacity of 1,200 people. It was founded in the late 1970s by Pakistani immigrants.
Zaid Malik, 40, who has recently moved to Copenhagen from Hull, said the killer had been a plump Pakistani wearing the traditional white shalwar kameez. “It’s narcotics. It’s got to with some kind of gang war,” he said. “I heard firing three weeks ago in other areas as well."
But Danish Police said that the involvement of racist far-Right groups has been ruled out.
“It was between Pakistani people and no one else. It’s not a hate crime or racism or anything like that,” said Deputy Inspector Lau Thygesen. “There was an argument before the shoot out and then one of them pulled a gun. We are sure that it’s not something that was planned.”
The shoot-out took place as a large crowd stood outside the mosque, waiting for those who had come to pray at nine in the morning to leave so they could attend the 10 o'clock.
The Muslim Cultural Institute is one of the city's biggest mosques, with a capacity of 1,200 people. It was founded in the late 1970s by Pakistani immigrants.
Zaid Malik, 40, who has recently moved to Copenhagen from Hull, said the killer had been a plump Pakistani wearing the traditional white shalwar kameez. “It’s narcotics. It’s got to with some kind of gang war,” he said. “I heard firing three weeks ago in other areas as well."
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