Twin blasts rocked the embassy of Israel in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, on Wednesday morning after Iran’s missile attacks on Israel on Tuesday night.
The Danish police said that the explosion was caused by the use of hand grenades and no casualties were recorded at the scene of the blast which was 100m away from the Israeli embassy.
Jens Jespersen, the Copenhagen Police Chief Superintendent said that investigations are ongoing and three suspects have been detained since Wednesday afternoon.
He said “We can’t say for sure if the embassy has been or not been the target of these explosions … We are also investigating if they have acted alone, on request or together with others,”
He hinted that the three suspects were Swedish nationals, two of the perpetrators were arrested on a train at Copenhagen’s main railway station shortly after the incident occurred while the third suspect was arrested somewhere else in the capital.
He refused to make any further comment about how the three suspects were connected and if they were related to any terrorist organizations or if the attack was linked to any particular terrorist activity.
Jespersen, however, disclosed that the Danish security and intelligence service has begun assisting police with the investigation and assessing the already high security level around locations linked to the Jewish community in Denmark.
A Jewish school which is located near the embassy was closed after the blast due to security concerns about the attack on the Jewish community in Denmark in wake of the Israeli war in the Middle East.
Soaring security concerns have been raised by the Jewish community in Denmark as they have been facing various backlash over Israel’s invasion of Gaza and Lebanon.
The identities of the perpetrators as being Swedish have raised more questions about the nature of the Swedish authorities in securing the Jewish community in their country as Prodesq gathered that in January, a Stockholm police bomb squad disarmed what investigators called a dangerous object outside the Israeli embassy building in the Swedish capital.