IHT : Danish court jails 5 in terror plot

Danish court jails 5 in terror plot

The Associated Press | September 8, 2006

COPENHAGEN A Danish court on Friday jailed five men arrested in an anti-terrorism sweep after investigators presented additional evidence linking them to an alleged terror plot, a prosecutor said.

The Odense City Court's decision brought to seven the number of suspects held on a four-week detention order as prosecutors prepare formal charges.

The two main suspects were remanded in custody Wednesday, but the court at the time called for more evidence against the other five.

"The court today had to decide whether there is a strong suspicion" against the five, Prosecutor Erik Terp Jensen told reporters after the hearing, "and the court decided that there is."

It was not known whether the suspects denied the allegations, because their defense lawyers were prohibited from speaking to the media.

Anti-terrorism squads raided homes early Tuesday in an immigrant district of Odense, Denmark's third-largest city, seizing chemicals, computers, telephones and CD-ROMs. Investigators said the chemical substances could be used to make bombs.

Justice Minister Lene Espersen said the suspects were planning a terror attack, most likely in Denmark.

Nine people were arrested in the raids, but two were later released.

Holocaust cartoons printed

A Danish newspaper on Friday published cartoons of the Holocaust exhibited in Iran as part of an international contest organized in response to a row over Danish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, Agence France-Presse reported from Copenhagen.

Six of the Holocaust cartoons appeared in the Danish daily Information.

The Iranian contest was announced in February after caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad were printed in Denmark and then picked up and published worldwide, enraging Muslims.


COPENHAGEN A Danish court on Friday jailed five men arrested in an anti-terrorism sweep after investigators presented additional evidence linking them to an alleged terror plot, a prosecutor said.

The Odense City Court's decision brought to seven the number of suspects held on a four-week detention order as prosecutors prepare formal charges.

The two main suspects were remanded in custody Wednesday, but the court at the time called for more evidence against the other five.

"The court today had to decide whether there is a strong suspicion" against the five, Prosecutor Erik Terp Jensen told reporters after the hearing, "and the court decided that there is."

It was not known whether the suspects denied the allegations, because their defense lawyers were prohibited from speaking to the media.

Anti-terrorism squads raided homes early Tuesday in an immigrant district of Odense, Denmark's third-largest city, seizing chemicals, computers, telephones and CD-ROMs. Investigators said the chemical substances could be used to make bombs.

Justice Minister Lene Espersen said the suspects were planning a terror attack, most likely in Denmark.

Nine people were arrested in the raids, but two were later released.