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PET director Jakob Scharf worked with
Copenhagen
police to arrest 14 anarchists for vandalism
(Photo:Scanpix)
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City cops work with PET to track down
overly-artistic left-wing extremists
The Copenhagen Police and PET, the
Danish security and intelligence service, have collaborated to arrest
14 left wing extremists for committing or planning
politically-motivated vandalism against the police and other public
authorities.
According to Copenhagen Police, four of
those arrested were charged with “systematic vandalism of an
organised nature”. They were charged with vandalising or attempting
to vandalise vehicles at a police academy on Artillerivej and a
police station on Hermodsgade. They were also charged with scrawling
graffiti on several buildings on Gormsgade and Ægirsgade, including
the Nordea facade in Gormsgade where they spray-painted the phrase
"Fuck capitalism".
PET said that some of the seven men and
seven women detained, who ranged in ages between 16 and 48, were
rounded up as a precautionary measure.
“PET’s view is that those arrested
had plans of carrying out co-ordinated, politically motivated
vandalism targeted at the police and other public authorities,” PET
said in a statement.
The statement gives no indication of
what other actions police believed the group had planned.
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