COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Danish police said they have arrested 13 people in the last week, while German police have arrested one more, on suspicion of attempting to make explosives and planning a terrorist attack in either Denmark or Germany. “These people could be inspired by militant Islamism,” the chief of operations in the Danish intelligence service, Flemming Dreyer, told a press briefing on Friday. Danish police said a statement late on Thursday they believed “there are individuals with the intent and capacity to commit terrorist attacks in Denmark”. Police did not say what the charges were for the other six people arrested nor for the person arrested in Germany. German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Thursday that three Syrian brothers were among those arrested, after German authorities had been alerted to an internet purchase of five kilos of sulphur and five kilos of aluminium powder.

Source: Egypt Independent February 12, 2021 11:15 UTC