Several arrested over suspected Denmark terror plot

Danish police have made several arrests, carrying out an operation "on suspicion of preparation for a terrorist attack."

The arrests were made in "a co-ordinated action" in several locations in Denmark early on Thursday.

No other details were given. The Copenhagen police and Denmark's domestic intelligence service were to give a press conference later.

The current terror threat level in Denmark is at level 4, the second-highest.

Earlier this month, the European Union's home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson, warned that Europe faces a "huge risk of terrorist attacks" over the Christmas holiday period due to the fallout from the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

In July 2022, a gunman at a shopping mall in Copenhagen killed three people and injured seven. The man, who believed the victims were zombies, was sentenced in July to detention in a secure medical facility.

He had been charged with murder and attempted murder in the rampage at the huge Field's shopping centre on the outskirts of Copenhagen.

In 2015, a 22-year-old Danish Muslim gunman killed two people and wounded five others at a free speech event and a synagogue in Copenhagen.