Danish Police Arrest Suspect in Mall Shooting

[Sister Iroz]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish police say they have arrested a man suspected of shooting and wounding two Israelis at a shopping mall.

Police spokesman John Jacobsen says without naming the suspect that he is a 27-year-old Dane born in Lebanon of Palestinian parents.

A court on Thursday ordered the suspect held for up to four weeks while police investigate.

Police say the suspect has denied attempting to kill the Israelis but acknowledged carrying a gun Wednesday at the mall in the central Danish city of Odense.

Jacobsen says the two Israelis had been selling hair-care products when they were attacked. He says they were hospitalized in stable condition; one man was shot in the arm and one man in the leg.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,474906,00.html

[Abroad]

Wissam Freijeh was sentenced to ten years in prison. He appealed the sentence; but it was confirmed (that isn't the word one uses in English, is it?) on 16/06-10.

This article gives a brief overview of the case with all the salient points, - in Danish.....

http://www.tv2fyn.dk/article/233448:...ngaardscentret



Apparently, he claimed to be under the delusion that the three Israelis selling cosmetics from a stand in the mall wanted to fight with him. He also claims that he only meant to hurt them (he got one of them in the leg and the other in the arm); but the prosecution said that it was only thanks to good fortune on the part of both the victims and the perpetrator that none of the three Israelis or two Danish customers in the stand at the time were killed in the shooting.