COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) 鈥� Police were examining a suspicious package sent to the Israeli Embassy in Denmark's capital, authorities said Thursday.
Danish public broadcaster DR showed photos of several police and emergency vehicles near the embassy in Copenhagen, including what they reported was a hazmat emergency response team vehicle. Several police officers and heavily armed soldiers were shown standing behind a cordoned-off area near a white building in the Hellerup neighborhood in north Copenhagen.
Copenhagen police wrote on X that 鈥渨e are present at the Israeli Embassy, where we are investigating a shipment received.鈥� They added that 鈥渨e currently have no further information.鈥� Police also said that they blocked off roads near the embassy.
Anders Frederiksen, duty chief at the Copenhagen Police, told Danish daily Ekstra Bladet that 鈥渙rdinary citizens in the area should not be worried.鈥�
A spokesperson reached by phone at the press department of the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen said that he couldn't comment on the situation.
Security officials in many European countries have increased surveillance and protection of Israeli and Jewish institutions after a broke out between Israel and Iran in June.
Last week, in the Danish city of Aarhus on suspicion of gathering information on Jewish locations and individuals in Germany for Iranian intelligence.
German federal prosecutors said the man was tasked by an Iranian intelligence service early this year with gathering information on 鈥淛ewish localities and specific Jewish individuals鈥� in Berlin. They didn鈥檛 elaborate.
He spied on three properties in June, 鈥減resumably in preparation of further intelligence activities in Germany, possibly including terrorist attacks on Jewish targets,鈥� prosecutors said.
German Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said that 鈥渋f this suspicion is confirmed, we are dealing with an outrageous operation,鈥� adding in a statement that 鈥渢he protection of Jewish life has the highest priority for the German government.鈥�
Germany has requested the extradition of the suspect.
The Associated Press
