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Description

In 2008, when XX was 15 years old, the gang wars in Copenhagen started, and that's the environment he's been a part of.
In November 2013, he stabbed a man on a train in an apparently unprovoked attack, and got arrested.
On February 14, 2015, XX, approached a free-speech debate, held at the Krudttonden Café in Copenhagen, armed with a rifle and fired indiscriminately into the café, killing one person and wounding three police officers.

Type of Crime

Murder with a religious background

Type of attack
XX, armed with a rifle, fired indiscriminately into the café, killing one person and wounding three police officers.
Ten hours after the first attack, XX went to a Copenhagen synagogue and opened fire, wounding two police officers and killing Dan Uzan, a security guard to a nearby bar mitzvah party.

Modus Operandi

- Identify possible technologies, which helped in committing the crime(s)

- Identify possible technologies, which helped in preventing to commit the crime(s)

- Which tools have been used for passing information; technological tool, networking of people, family etc.

XX is believed to pledge his allegiance to ISIS’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, via Facebook, just following his release.

People involved

XX, a Danish 22-year-old

Criminal History

As a teenager, XX joined the "Brothas" gang in Mjølnerparken, Copenhagen, and was involved in burglaries, petty crime, drugs and carrying illegal weapons. In November 2013, he stabbed a man on a train in an apparently unprovoked attack, and after two months on the run, was eventually arrested. When in prison, he openly – and repeatedly – spoke of his desire to fight in Syria, prompting the authorities to flag him as potentially radicalized.
Over the course of his imprisonment, he was reported three times, but none of these alerts were ever investigated.

Influential and/or vulnerable Groups

When XX was released, he had no access to probation services because he was technically on parole. Homeless and jobless, he appeared at the local job centre, asking for a place to stay and something to do. The job centre could not accommodate his request, and scheduled a new meeting.
Instead of showing up, he carried out his attack – just two weeks after he had been released.
XX is believed to pledge his allegiance to ISIS’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, via Facebook, just following his release.
With no higher education, profession or close familial network (parents divorced, gang severing former ties) and isolated from society, XX's benefits from joining ISIS were high. In addition, as a gang member experienced with violence and weapons, XX did not need any mental and physical training to carry out the attack.

Denmark

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