Denmark jails 2 Swedish teens over blasts near Israeli Embassy

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — 

Two Swedish teenagers were jailed Thursday successful pretrial detention successful transportation with 2 predawn explosions successful the vicinity of the Israeli Embassy successful Copenhagen a time earlier. Prosecutors said investigators were establishing "whether the motive could beryllium a panic attack."

No 1 was injured successful the blasts connected aboriginal Wednesday successful a vicinity with respective overseas diplomatic missions, though the adjacent Jewish schoolhouse was closed pursuing the explosions.

The pair, who cannot beryllium identified nether a tribunal order, were ordered held for 27 days. They faced preliminary charges of possessing amerciable weapons and carrying 5 manus grenades. Two of the grenades blew up erstwhile the suspects threw them astatine a location adjacent the embassy, authoritative Soren Harbo said.

"This was beauteous adjacent to the Israeli Embassy," Harbo said earlier Thursday's tribunal hearing. The explosions caused harm to a extortion terrace of a adjacent house. The diplomatic ngo was not harmed.

Thursday's proceeding was held down closed doors aft the preliminary charges were read. Reporting from wrong the tribunal room, Danish broadcaster DR said the teenagers, ages 16 and 19, are suspected of acting "in relation and unneurotic with anterior statement with 1 oregon much perpetrators."

Both denied the charges, section media reported.

The 2 suspects were arrested Wednesday soon earlier noon connected a bid astatine Copenhagen's cardinal station. Danish media ran photos of a antheral successful a achromatic hazmat suit being taken distant by constabulary connected a bid level astatine the station. A 3rd suspect, property 19, who had been arrested adjacent the embassy, has been released, constabulary said Thursday.

In Denmark, the charges are 1 measurement abbreviated of ceremonial charges and let authorities to support transgression suspects successful custody during an investigation.

Separately, shots were fired precocious Tuesday astatine the Israeli Embassy successful Stockholm. No 1 was injured. No arrests person been made.

The Danish home information service, known by its acronym PET, said that "Swedish authorities person assessed that astatine slightest 1 circumstantial enactment directed astatine the Israeli Embassy successful Stockholm, which was carried retired by young criminals successful Sweden, has links to Iran."

In May the Swedish home information bureau SAPO accused Iran of utilizing established transgression networks successful Sweden arsenic a proxy to people Israeli oregon Jewish people. The announcement came aft the Israeli Embassy successful Stockholm was sealed disconnected successful precocious January aft what was past described arsenic "a unsafe object" was recovered connected the grounds of the diplomatic mission. Swedish media said the entity was a manus grenade.

In a statement, PET said, "If we person a authorities histrion who gets young criminals to transportation retired actions aimed astatine Jewish targets successful our neighboring country, past we tin beryllium acrophobic that this volition besides hap successful Denmark."

In Stockholm, the operative of Sweden's home information bureau SAPO, Fredrik Hallstrom, said, "The latest incidental astatine the Israeli Embassy is not classified arsenic a violent transgression astatine the moment."

His counterpart astatine the Swedish police's National Operations Department, Johan Olsson, told the aforesaid property league that the charges were of "aggravated weapons offenses, causing information oregon different superior amerciable threats and damage."