several people they have resulted dead Y wounds of different consideration in a shooting that has occurred inside the Fields shopping center in Copenhagen this Sunday afternoon. The dead could be four and among them a woman, according to a Danish television reporter. The figure does not yet have official endorsement. The Danish police do not specify the specific number of fatalities.
Through social networks, the Danish security forces have confirmed the arrest of the author. He is a 22-year-old “ethnic Dane”, the chief inspector of the Copenhagen police has confirmed, Soren Thomassenduring a press conference held after an hour and a half of official silence.
The aggressor, tall, blond, dressed in khaki t-shirt and shorts, he entered the mall armed with at least one rifle with a telescopic sight that he did not hide. According to some of the testimonies that are emerging, the first people who came across him told them it was a fake gun.
A Danish tabloid reporter Ekstra Bladet He recorded it with a cell phone. In the video she is seen wandering around the now empty compound, with the shotgun on his shoulder and another weapon – which could be a large pistol – in one of his pockets.
Danish police authorities They have not yet proven the participation of more accomplices in the attack, that could be a far right terrorist attack perpetrated by a single actor. That first hypothesis has not been ruled out either by Chief Thomasen or by any police source to the local media.
run away
The attack took place shortly before half past five in the afternoon, when in the shopping center there were about 150 customers, most of them in an area of fashion stores, according to various witnesses to the Danish press. As soon as the first shots rang out, people ran out in panic. were altogether eleven shots, according to the most widespread version. At 5:30 p.m., an alarm call was received at the Police headquarters.
Some of the survivors reported having seen a gunshot wounded woman lying on the ground. Also several shots that had hit a window and, possibly, people who were behind the glass.
Danish police quickly cordoned off the area. The shopping center is located six kilometers from the central politics from Copenhagen. The Field’s stands next to a park and a golf course in the Amager neighborhood, located halfway between the center of the Danish capital and the airport.
Although there are no indications of the existence of more than one perpetrator, the police continue to work without ruling out that there may be more who have helped commit the massacre.
three hospitalized
The Danish channel TV2 has reported three people admitted in connection with the shooting, according to the statements of the press officer of the Rigshospitalet hospital, Jacob Aaen.
Copenhagen police had previously reported on Twitter that reinforcements had been sent to the mall after receiving reports of a shooting. “There have been shots and several people have been hit”, he indicated, without specifying victims or deaths, while confirming the arrest of a suspicious person in relation to the shooting. “Currently we cannot say more about his identity,” he added then.
The mayor of Copenhagen, Sophie Andersen, spoke on Twitter of a “very serious” incident from which it is still not known for sure how many injured or dead there are.
In person er anholdt i forbindelse med skyderiet i Fields. Vi har fornuværende ikke mulighed for at fortælle mere om vedkommendes identitet. Vi er massivt tilstede i Fields og arbejder på at danne os et overblik. Vi opdaterer her, så snart vi kan #politidk https://t.co/84Df2mspVD
— Københavns Politi (@KobenhavnPoliti) July 3, 2022
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The police have also asked all the people who are around the shopping center to write to their loved ones to let them know they are safe. And he has asked citizens and businesses to take photos or images related to the incident, but not to share them on social networks.
About 650 meters from the Field’s shopping center is also the Royal Arena pavilion, where it was planned that the British singer Harry Styles hold a concert. Styles himself wrote on the Snapchat social network to be “shocked” and stated that he and his entire team are praying for all those affected.