Two Swedish teenagers were accused this Thursday (3) of possessing five hand grenades and detonating two of them on a roof near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen.
The teenagers, aged 16 and 19, were arrested on Wednesday (2) on a train at Copenhagen’s main railway station and declared themselves innocent during preliminary interrogation held this Thursday (3) in a court in the city of Copenhagen. They remain detained.
The prosecutor gave details of the charges, but the court banned publication of their names. Police said they were remanded in custody until October 30.
No one was injured in the two explosions on Wednesday morning, but the building near the embassy suffered some damage, investigators said.
A third man, aged 19, was detained elsewhere in the Danish capital and released after questioning, Danish police said. I was investigating whether the embassy was the target of the explosions.
The explosions in the Danish capital followed an increase in tensions in the Middle East.
Israel, which has been fighting the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip for nearly a year, sent troops into southern Lebanon after months of cross-border firefights with the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement. Iran fired a barrage of missiles at Israel on Tuesday.
This year, at least 10 Swedes have been charged in Denmark with attempted murder or weapons possession, sparking criticism about the spread of organized crime.
Swedish authorities previously said security police warned of several planned attacks linked to Iranian security services using local criminal networks, an accusation Iran said was “baseless”.
This content was originally published in Teenagers accused of explosion near Israeli embassy in Copenhagen on the CNN Brasil website.
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