Shooting in Copenhagen: the alleged shooter has a psychiatric history

The 22-year-old Danish suspect arrested in connection with the shooting that killed three people on Sunday at a Copenhagen shopping center has a psychiatric history, the inspector announced on Monday chief of police, for whom “nothing indicates that this is a terrorist act”. The alleged perpetrator of the shooting at a Copenhagen shopping center has a psychiatric history, police said the day after the killings on Monday (July 4th), saying there was no indication at this stage of “a terrorist act”. Copenhagen police chief inspector Søren Thomassen, the 22-year-old Dane arrested shortly after the incident, chose his victims “at random” in this shooting which left three dead and four seriously injured. The police consider the videos to be authentic of the suspect circulating since Sunday evening on social networks, he said during a press conference. The young man appears there posing with weapons, mimicking gestures of suicide or evoking a treatment with a powerful drug prescribed in psychiatry “which does not work”. The suspect’s YouTube and Instagram accounts were closed during the night, AFP noted. Several Danish media have also confirmed his identity circulating online, but his name has not been made public. said Soren Thomassen. “Nothing indicates that he had complicity”. The four injured, who are in serious condition, are two Danish women aged 19 and 40 and two Swedes, a 50-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl. chance,” said the chief inspector. “Nothing indicates that it is a terrorist act”, according to him. Other people were slightly injured in the movement of panic caused by the shooting in the Fields shopping center, located in the district of Amager on the road to Copenhagen airport. With AFP