COPENHAGEN, Denmark – A man was killed and two others were injured after a shooting outside a Copenhagen mosque following prayers to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan yesterday.
Police said the involvement of racist far-right groups has been ruled out. Spokesman Lau Thygesen said the shooting took place outside the Muslim Culture Institute, in the Danish capital’s Vesterbro district, and that the roads surrounding the mosque and a nearby car park have been cordoned off.
“It was between Pakistani people and no one else. It’s not a hate crime or racism or anything like that,” said deputy inspector Lau Thygesen. “After the prayer, there apparently was some kind of quarrel between two groups. I don’t know if both [groups] had been inside the mosque,” Deputy Insp Thygesen said. “The quarrel turned into a scuffle which was followed by the shooting.”
Two others were injured, one of whom fled in a car and was later found in a hospital in the Swedish city of Malmo, across a waterway from Copenhagen. – (Agencies)