Police officers patrol near a memorial site for the victims of the deadly attacks in front of the synagogue in Krystalgade in Copenhagen
Photo: Reuters
[From article]
On the street corner where Copenhagen’s Islamist gunman died in a shoot-out with police, his friends laid floral tributes in his memory on Monday.
Emulating the actions of the hundreds of people who left flowers outside a café and a synagogue two men were shot dead at the weekend, those who regard Omar el-Hussein as a “good guy”, not a terrorist, created a third shrine.
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"We’ve put flowers here because we must remember him,” said a young Arab man, who gave his name as Mohamed. “He was a good guy. We don’t believe he did anything wrong. It wasn’t like the police say.” A placard placed with the flowers read: “May Allah be merciful, rest in peace” in both Arabic and Danish.
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"He wasn’t someone who could kill people. He stabbed a guy, OK, but it was only in the leg,” Benny said. “When we fight, we stab, but always in the leg, not to kill. I’ve stabbed ten or eleven people. I know he didn’t have the money to buy an automatic gun. Here it costs 50,000 kroner (nearly £5,000).”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/denmark/11416322/Copenhagen-shootings-Friends-pay-tribute-at-shrine-for-the-gunman.html
Copenhagen shootings: Friends pay tribute at shrine for the gunman
Flowers were laid outside the drab four-storey block of flats where gunman Omar el-Hussein lived in the mainly immigrant district of Mjølnerparken but later removed
By David Chazan, Copenhagen
5:56PM GMT 16 Feb 2015
[From article]
On the street corner where Copenhagen’s Islamist gunman died in a shoot-out with police, his friends laid floral tributes in his memory on Monday.
Emulating the actions of the hundreds of people who left flowers outside a café and a synagogue two men were shot dead at the weekend, those who regard Omar el-Hussein as a “good guy”, not a terrorist, created a third shrine.
[. . .]
"We’ve put flowers here because we must remember him,” said a young Arab man, who gave his name as Mohamed. “He was a good guy. We don’t believe he did anything wrong. It wasn’t like the police say.” A placard placed with the flowers read: “May Allah be merciful, rest in peace” in both Arabic and Danish.
[. . .]
"He wasn’t someone who could kill people. He stabbed a guy, OK, but it was only in the leg,” Benny said. “When we fight, we stab, but always in the leg, not to kill. I’ve stabbed ten or eleven people. I know he didn’t have the money to buy an automatic gun. Here it costs 50,000 kroner (nearly £5,000).”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/denmark/11416322/Copenhagen-shootings-Friends-pay-tribute-at-shrine-for-the-gunman.html
Copenhagen shootings: Friends pay tribute at shrine for the gunman
Flowers were laid outside the drab four-storey block of flats where gunman Omar el-Hussein lived in the mainly immigrant district of Mjølnerparken but later removed
By David Chazan, Copenhagen
5:56PM GMT 16 Feb 2015
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