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Three people detained after shooting at north Denmark supermarket

Two people were injured during a shooting incident on Sunday evening, according to North Jutland Police.

Three people detained after shooting at north Denmark supermarket
The supermarket in Aalborg where the shooting took place. Photo: Rasmus Skaftved/Scanpix

The shooting happened in a parking lot in front of a supermarket in Aalborg, reports TV2 Nord.

The two injured people have been arrested and the identity of the third arrested person is unclear, according to the report.

One person is said to have turned themselves in at Aalborg University hospital with a shooting injury to the leg.

“There is one injured person who was hit in the leg and another who has received an injury, probably in conjunction with the commotion out there,” duty officer Karsten Højrup Kristensen of North Jutland Police told news agency Ritzau.

Several cars drove away from the scene shortly after the shooting, which was reported to police at 9pm on Sunday, reports Ritzau.

While Denmark generally has a low crime rate, violent crime including shootings – often gang-related – is not unheard of.

There was a heavy police presence at the scene on Sunday night.

“We are investigating flat out to obtain as much information as possible,” Kristensen said.

The man who was shot in the leg is currently at Aalborg University Hospital where he is under police observation.

The second injured man is now at Aalborg Police Station.

Neither wishes to cooperate with police, reports Ritzau.

“But there have been several witnesses that have contacted us following the incident, and we are now trying to make head and tail of things. A number of the reports from witness have been useful,” Kristensen told the agency.

CRIME

Nordic justice ministers meet tech giants on gangs hiring ‘child soldiers’

The justice ministers of Denmark, Sweden and Norway are to meet representatives of the tech giants Google, Meta, Snapchat and TikTok, to discuss how to stop their platforms being used by gang criminals in the region.

Nordic justice ministers meet tech giants on gangs hiring 'child soldiers'

Denmark’s justice minister, Peter Hummelgaard, said in a press release that he hoped to use the meeting on Friday afternoon to discuss how to stop social media and messaging apps being used by gang criminals, who Danish police revealed earlier this year were using them to recruit so-called “child soldiers” to carry out gang killings.  

“We have seen many examples of how the gangs are using social media and encrypted messaging services to plan serious crimes and recruit very young people to do their dirty work,” Hummelgaard said. “My Nordic colleagues and I agree that a common front is needed to get a grip on this problem.”

As well as recruitment, lists have been found spreading on social media detailing the payments on offer for various criminal services.   

Hummelgaard said he would “insist that the tech giants live up to their responsibilities so that their platforms do not act as hotbeds for serious crimes” at the meeting, which will take place at a summit of Nordic justice ministers in Uppsala, Sweden.

In August, Hummelgaard held a meeting in Copenhagen with Sweden’s justice minister, Gunnar Strömmer, at which the two agreed to work harder to tackle cross-border organised crime, which has seen a series of Swedish youth arrested in Denmark after being recruited to carry out hits in the country. 

According to a press release from the Swedish justice ministry, the morning will be spent discussing how to combat the criminal economy and particularly organised crime in ports, with a press release from Finland’s justice ministry adding that the discussion would also touch on the “undue influence on judicial authorities” from organised crime groups. 

The day will end with a round table discussion with Ronald S Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, on how anti-Semitism and hate crimes against Jews can be prevented and fought in the Nordic region. 

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