Some 150 Danish neo-Nazis and their European cohorts marched through the eastern city of Roskilde over the weekend to mark the eighth anniversary of the suicide of Hitler deputy Rudolf Hess. Police in Roskilde, located near Copenhagen, offered protection to the neo-Nazi marchers from counter demonstrators, whose march was restricted to the other side of… More ▸
Danish police have indicted two men suspected of planning terrorist activities against Jewish and Israeli targets in Copenhagen. Mohammed Fahim and Abdul Hakim Suliman, both Egyptian nationals, were charged last month with buying chemicals and other items with the intention to carry out bomb attacks, Danish officials said. The Israeli Embassy, Jewish cemeteries and train… More ▸
A Danish court has backed a German request to extradite American neo-Nazi Gary Lauck. A district court ruled Tuesday that Lauck’s written and verbal attacks on Jews violated Danish anti-racism laws, allowing for the extradition. If the extradition occurs, Lauck will face charges of smuggling banned hate literature into Germany for two decades. Lauck, 41,… More ▸
In a year commemorating the 50th anniversary of many grim events relating to the Nazi Holocaust, Jews gathered here last week to celebrate one bright spot of 1943: the rescue of the Jews of Denmark. The Danish people, unlike so many others in Europe, protected their Jewish citizens from Nazi death camps, hiding Jews in… More ▸
The Jewish community here is fighting back an assault by an animal rights group on the practice of kosher slaughter. Religious requirements prohibit acquiescence to a demand that animals be stunned before ritual slaughter, or shechitah, as it is called in Hebrew. The demand was put forward by the Danish Society for the Prevention of… More ▸
The Palestine Liberation Organization has reversed a decision to shut down its information office here, after announcing in July that it would be closed because of “financial difficulties.” The PLO representative in Denmark, Abdul Rahman Allawi, informed the Foreign Ministry last week that the office will remain open but with a reduced staff. Those apparently… More ▸
A man and two women were arrested here Friday in connection with criminal activities said to benefit a Palestinian terrorist organization. A court ordered the suspects jailed for 13 days while police and the Danish intelligence agency, PET, prepare documentary evidence against them. They and 11 other suspects — who have been in custody for… More ▸
A visiting Danish schoolteacher, arrested in Israel July 8 and subsequently expelled, was suspected of belonging to the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Force 17 commando squad and of planning a terrorist attack against civilians in Israel. According to the minutes of a court hearing released this week, Ulla Lyngsby, 25, was charged with membership in Force… More ▸
The case of Ulla Lyngsby, a 25-year-old Danish schoolteacher arrested in Israel and allegedly harassed by security agents, is generating anti-Israel sentiment in the Danish news media and a swarm of rumors. Donations are being solicited to pay for legal action charging Israel with violations of human rights. Lyngsby may have been involved in a… More ▸
The discovery here of an arms cache Danish police said was sufficient to start a small war has resulted in the arrests of 10 people suspected of staging robberies in support of a Syrian-based Palestinian terrorist organization. The suspects are all Danish nationals, one of them born in Jordan. They were remanded in custody for… More ▸
