Danish Police secure the entrance as lawyer assistants arrive at the court in Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday April 13, 2012. — Photo by APFour Muslims, who invaded Sweden in various forms of immigration, began their trial in Denmark for plotting a Mumbai-style terror attack on the newspaper offices in Copenhagen - the same paper that published the Danish "Mo cartoons."
From the article at DAWN:
Four men went on trial in Denmark on Friday accused of plotting a “Mumbai-style” attack on the offices of a Danish newspaper whose publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in 2005 outraged many Muslims.
The three Swedish citizens and one Tunisian pleaded not guilty to charges of terrorism and three of the four pleaded not guilty to illegal possession of weapons. Prosecutors have said they could face life sentences if found guilty.
They are accused of plotting to kill a large number of people in an armed attack on the offices of the daily Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen’s Town Hall square at the end of 2010 and with trying to terrify the population.
“It is our perception that an unknown number of people were to be killed by shooting,” chief prosecutor Gyrithe Ulrich told TV2 News outside the courthouse before the trial began.
Standing trial are Mounir Ben Mohamed Dhahri, a Tunisian citizen, and three Swedish citizens – Lebanese-born Munir Awad, Omar Abdalla Aboelazm, born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and an Egyptian father, and Sahbi Ben Mohamed Zalouti, of Tunisian origin.
All four were living in Sweden at the time of their arrest in December 2010, three days before the alleged attack was to have been carried out.
This is an important trial in that it showcases just what has been going on in Europe...the fact that these are all basically home-grown Islamic terroists - these weren't Pakistani terrorists stealing into India under the cover of darkness to kill Jews and Hindus...these were Swedes, Islamic allbeit, who were planning this. Europeans are at the point where they have to watch all of the people in their country as well as from neighboring countries. And the fact of the matter is that the islamists have been living in these countries in Europe for just this kind of action - to kill and continue the terror which they hope brings them dominance.
Four on trial in Denmark over Mohammad (PBUH) cartoons plot
DENMARK: Four men went on trial in Denmark on Friday accused of plotting a “Mumbai-style” attack on the offices of a Danish newspaper whose publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in 2005 outraged many Muslims.
The three Swedish citizens and one Tunisian pleaded not guilty to charges of terrorism and three of the four pleaded not guilty to illegal possession of weapons. Prosecutors have said they could face life sentences if found guilty.
They are accused of plotting to kill a large number of people in an armed attack on the offices of the daily Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen’s Town Hall square at the end of 2010 and with trying to terrify the population.
“It is our perception that an unknown number of people were to be killed by shooting,” chief prosecutor Gyrithe Ulrich told TV2 News outside the courthouse before the trial began.
Standing trial are Mounir Ben Mohamed Dhahri, a Tunisian citizen, and three Swedish citizens – Lebanese-born Munir Awad, Omar Abdalla Aboelazm, born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and an Egyptian father, and Sahbi Ben Mohamed Zalouti, of Tunisian origin.
All four were living in Sweden at the time of their arrest in December 2010, three days before the alleged attack was to have been carried out.
Awad and Zalouti entered the courtroom wearing handcuffs, while Aboelazm and Dhahri had their hands free.
When the judge entered the courtroom, Zalouti rose to his feet only after being urged to do so by his lawyer, the three others stood without prompting.
All four pleaded not guilty to the main charge of terrorism, but Dhari pleaded guilty to illegal possession of weapons.
Senior prosecutor Henrik Plaehn showed the court a large automatic pistol, which police have said was found in a car rented by the defendants, and plastic strips which police have said could have been used as handcuffs.
Zalouti’s lawyer asked Plaehn to point the gun at the floor, and not wave it around in the air.
Denmark’s state security police (PET) have said the attack was meant to be like the 2008 shooting spree in Mumbai, when 10 Pakistani gunmen killed 166 people in a three-day coordinated assault on city landmarks, including two hotels and a Jewish centre.
The PET said the men belonged to a militant religious group and had links to international terrorist networks.
Jyllands-Posten was the paper that first published a dozen cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), provoking protests in 2006 against Danish interests abroad and riots in countries from the Middle East and Africa to Asia in which at least 50 people died.
The trial continues and a verdict is expected shortly after it ends around June 15.
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