– He said it was not real – VG
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A witness says he met the perpetrator at the mall and talked to him for about a minute.
Several people are injured after it was shot at the Fields shopping center in Copenhagen on Sunday night.
Deputy Police Inspector Lars Karlsen confirms to VG that they have arrested a person.
Mahdi Al-Wazni said he talked to the perpetrator for a minute.
– He seemed very violent and angry, says Al-Wazni.
– He spoke directly to me and said it was not real while I was filming him. He seemed very proud of what he did, he says.
Al-Wazni has taken a picture of what must be the perpetrator, who is a white man in green shorts who goes over the knees. He wears a dark top without arms and carries a long weapon.
VG has published pictures of a man lying on the hill with the same clothing, surrounded by police officers. There is a weapon on the ground behind him.
It is not confirmed if this is the perpetrator.
– Shouts to a man with a weapon
Ekstra Bladet has spoken to a witness who then confronted a person with a weapon.
– We were going into Fields and leaving the car down in the parking basement. As we are on our way out of the car, a lot of people come running, says a witness Ekstrabladet.
– “It’s shooting, it’s shooting”, shouts everyone who runs out of Fields, and we drive out of the parking basement again, he adds to the newspaper.
Police confirmed at 6.45pm that they had received reports of shootings.
The witness tells the newspaper that they then see that confronting a man with a weapon:
– We turn left towards Kastrup airport and there we see three to four police officers. They shout at a man with a weapon in his hand. It looks like a track rifle, says the witness to Ekstra Bladet.
– We could hear them shouting “Put down the weapon” and fire a couple of warning shots. And then we are gone, the witness tells the newspaper.
Blood on the hands
Danish media have published pictures of a man sitting on the tray outside the shopping center and lying on the tray, surrounded by police officers.
It is not confirmed if this is the perpetrator.
According to police, several people are injured. Three people are being treated at the hospital, according to DR.
Ekstra Bladet has also talked to several people outside the shopping center who have been close to the incidents.
One of the witnesses came out with blood on his hands. The person in question told the newspaper that he worked as an ambulance personnel on a daily basis.
He wanted to go back to Fields but was not allowed by police according to the newspaper.
– We just ran
VG has spoken to several people on the spot who say they have heard shots.
– We went to Field’s center. Suddenly we began to hear three or four shots in the air. Everyone started running out, says Awais Akhtar to VG.
Tina Aronsen (25) from Tønsberg was about to order food from the restaurant Gorms together with her friend when she heard gunshots.
– In what we are going to hear we maybe four or five shots before it became quiet. Then there were three or four more. No one reacted first, then we heard people screaming and started running away, she says.
Her friend, Marina (24), says that they were locked inside the restaurant. She does not want the last name to be in print.
– Suddenly the owner of the music turned and said that there is someone shooting inside the center. We just ran, she says.
She says they saw people running on the second floor of the mall and that they could see helicopters flying over the place.
– It took minutes before someone who worked there said that everyone had to run around and get as far away as possible, because it was shooting inside the center.
Maria Malik (20) and a friend were also at the center when it was small.
– I was on my way into a store and heard two shots, and so many people come shouting and running towards me. I ran to the back room and waited for the police for over an hour, hearing lots of shots.
She says the shooting took place about 20 meters from the shop she was hiding in.
– When the police came and picked us up, we heard a lot of shots on the way out of the center, she tells VG.
Odd Einar Hellebust was near the mall when he heard it like a shot. His girlfriend and son are in the mall.
– My boyfriend took our son and locked himself in a warehouse to get to safety. It comes more and more heavily armed police, he says to VG.