After six months of investigation, the Copenhagen Police have made the first arrests in a murder case from Brønshøj.
Two men, aged 19 and 20 respectively, have been arrested. However, they are not charged with murder, but with attempted murder.
This is stated by the Copenhagen Police in a press release.
The men have on Friday morning been produced in constitutional interrogation at the Judge’s Guard in Copenhagen. Here, a judge has decided to remand them both for a preliminary four weeks.
On September 29 last year, a 20-year-old man was killed by gunfire in the hair salon Salon Ørn in the residential area Tingbjerg near Copenhagen.
The perpetrator remains at large.
Subsequently, police found out that two men – one of whom was armed with a pistol – passed the salon on a motorcycle five days before the murder.
It is the theory of the police that the men intended to kill the 20-year-old man who worked in Salon Ørn. However, that did not happen.
The two young men who have been arrested and charged with attempted murder are believed to be the same as the men on the motorcycle.
This is what Deputy Police Inspector Knud Hvass, head of the Department of Organized Crime in the Copenhagen Police, says.
– We have now come so far in the investigation that there is a reasonable suspicion that the detainees are behind the attempted murder.
– We have a presumption that there is a connection between that episode and the murder itself, and it will hopefully be clarified in the further investigation, says Knud Hvass in the press release.
The men, aged 19 and 20, were arrested Thursday morning in the metropolitan area. In this connection, several addresses were searched.
Copenhagen Police have previously asked the public for help to get on the trail of the perpetrators and solve the case.
– We would still very much like to hear from witnesses who have seen something in the area in connection with the actual murder on September 29, says Knud Hvass.
The victim was shot at close range in the hair salon. The killer fled the scene on foot.
Source: The Nordic Page
