Two Arrested in Connection With Copenhagen Attacks: Police

ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images(COPENHAGEN, Denmark) — Danish police arrested two men who are suspected of helping the gunman in two weekend shooting attacks, police said in a statement.

Police in Copenhagen, Denmark, said the arrests were made on Sunday and that the two men will face a custody hearing on Monday.

Police said they are searching for people who witnessed the first shooting, which occurred Saturday at a cultural center hosting a seminar on free speech with an artist who had depicted the Prophet Muhammad.

““We would very much like to be come into contact with more witnesses, who noticed the perpetrator,” said leading Police Deputy Chief Superintendent Jørgen Skov in a statement.

“We are particularly interested in witnesses who noticed the presumed perpetrator on his way to the first crime scene,” said Skov in the statement.

Shots were later fired near a synagogue, with a civilian security guard killed, police said. Hours later, a gunman — believed by police to be the same man — was killed in a gun battle with a SWAT team.

Police said the slain gunman was a 22-year-old with a history of violence who may have been inspired by Islamic terrorists — and possibly by the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. They have not yet released his name.

A survivor of Saturday’s attack at the Copenhagen café credited security guards with helping to contain the situation.

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