Five shots in three days in Copenhagen – linked to gang environment – NRK Urix – Foreign news and documentaries
On Saturday night, a man was seriously injured by the shot between the districts of Nørrebro and Frederiksberg in Copenhagen. It reports Denmark’s radio.
The man has been shot in the head and the condition is very critical, the Copenhagen police stated in a press briefing sent on Saturday night. His condition should be unchanged Sunday morning.
– We do not know how many shots were fired, but we can state that he was hit by a single shot in the head, says police inspector Rasmus Skovsgaard to Danish TV 2.
Police are looking for a young man with dark hair and a beard wearing dark clothes, and are looking for witnesses. It is unclear if there are more perpetrators.
The 39-year-old men are the fifth to be shot in three days in Denmark’s capital. On Thursday, a man in his 20s was shot and killed in Nørrebro, and on Friday a 17-year-old was killed in Rødovre.
The police’s hypothesis: associated with the gang environment
A Swedish-speaking man of 21 and a Danish man of 18 have been charged and remanded in custody for Thursday’s murder.
The murder on Friday happened in a hair salon. The victim was a Bulgarian citizen. Two were injured in the attack, among them a 15-year-old who goes to a school nearby.
Police have so far not commented on the killings and the shooting episode, which are linked.
But they are working on a hypothesis that the incidents are linked to the gang environment in Copenhagen, according to DR.
The man who was killed in Nørrebro on Thursday is known to the police in a “gang context”, writes Politiken.
It has been introduced called visitation zones in several of Copenhagen’s districts. Among them Herlev, Rødovre and Nørrebro and Nordvest. This means that the police are allowed to visit people without specific errors.
– The reason for introducing visitation zones is a number of violent incidents in Greater Copenhagen, which are considered to be related to the gang environment, and where firearms have been used in several cases, writes the police in a message.
Not long ago, visitation zones in the districts of Brøndby, Gladsaxe and Herlev were closed down.
They were introduced on October 17 due to a violent conflict between groups in Copenhagen’s gang environment, he wrote the police in a press release on 1 December.