Three of the four defendants were arrested in December 2010 while allegedly on
their way “to kill a large number of people” in revenge for the
Jyllands-Posten newspaper’s publication of 12 cartoons of the Prophet
Mohammad five years before.
The fourth man, Zalouti, left the car during the journey and returned to
Stockholm after getting cold feet over the attack. He later told Swedish
that the three men arrested had gone to carry out an attack.
A machine gun with a silencer, a revolver and 108 bullets and reams of duct
tape were among the items found in the men’s possession.
The four terror suspects, aged between 29-44 at the time of their arrest, have
all pleaded not guilty through their lawyers.
Denmark’s state security police (PET) has said the planned attack was modelled
on a 2008 shooting spree in Mumbai, when 10 Pakistani gunmen killed 166
people in a three-day assault.
“It is our perception that an unknown number of people were to be killed
by shooting,” Gyrithe Ulrich, another Danish prosecutor.
Security officials described the men as “militant Islamists with
relations to international terror networks” in Pakistan’s Waziristan
region near the Afghan border.
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