Bomb scare at Copenhagen attack site
February 17, 2015
Bomb disposal experts were dispatched on the first site of the Copenhagen attacks on Tuesday morning, and police used sniffer dogs to search the café Krudttoenden, where one man was killed on Saturday. The area had been evacuated after staff at the cafe and cultural centre alerted the police over a suspicious letter.
Danish police have called off the bomb alert after no explosives have been found.
"Investigation finished. No explosives. Cordon has been lifted," they wrote on Twitter.
The letter that caused the alert contained messages connected to the Saturday attacks, according to the Ritzau news agency. The messages, however, were not hateful, the agency said.
Danish PM praises unity
In the terror strikes last Saturday, the 22-year-old shooter killed a person attending a free speech event the Krudttoenden café and another one in his attack on synagogue in downtown Copenhagen. The attacker also wounded five police officers before being gunned down by police.
Tens of thousands gathered on Monday evening to honor the victims in rally in Danish capital, with Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt saying to the crowd that Danes had come together to "insist on living free and safe lives in a democratic country."
"When others try to scare us and tear us apart, our response is always a strong community," she declared.
Thorning-Schmidt also warned against stigmatizing Muslims over the attack.
"This is a conflict between the core values of our society and violent extremists," she said. "This is not a conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims."
dj/rc (dpa, Reuters, AFP)