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Senior police inspector Jens Jespersen addresses a press conference in Copenhagen regarding arrests in connection with the two explosions at the Israeli embassy on, Oct. 2, 2024
(JNS) — A blast occurred near the Israeli embassy in Denmark on Monday, the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in southern Israel, Agence France-Presse reported.
The explosion happened about 500 meters from the diplomatic mission in Copenhagen, and five days after two blasts, likely caused by hand grenades, went off near the building.
“We are of course looking into whether there could be a connection to the (earlier) incident at the Israeli embassy,” Copenhagen police inspector Trine Moller told reporters on Monday.
“There is no indication that this is the case,” she said, adding that the reported explosion may have been caused by gunfire.
Danish police arrested three Swedish nationals on Wednesday in connection with the first incident.
Iran may have orchestrated the Copenhagen attack as well as the targeting of the Israeli embassy in Stockholm on Tuesday, according to Swedish intelligence agency SÄPO.
Fredrik Hallstrom, head of operations at SÄPO, said that “there are some things that could point in that direction” of Iranian involvement.
In May, the agency confirmed that Tehran was recruiting members of Swedish criminal gangs to commit “acts of violence” against Israeli targets.
Swedish public broadcaster SVT reported on Wednesday that the two embassy attacks had been ordered by the Swedish criminal network Foxtrot at the behest of Iran.
The incident was reported some 30 minutes before Iran fired 180 ballistic missiles at the Jewish state in its second-ever direct attack; the first one was back in April.
Ahead of the assault, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz summoned an emergency meeting with all Israeli ambassadors on “how to act with heads of state in the various capitals in view of the recent attacks.”
Iran is behind a series of terrorist attacks carried out by criminal gangs targeting Israeli embassies in Europe, including Sweden, over recent months, the Mossad intelligence agency revealed earlier this year.
