Terrorist attacks in Copenhagen
I condemn attacks that killed a security guard at a synagogue and a participant in a freedom of speech event in Copenhagen on Saturday. I am shocked by the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on the weekend. While such attacks affect us all, they have a particularly strong impact on the daily lives of Jewish people; now is the time to stand together against these crimes based on hatred, including those based on anti-Semitism. Government must take all appropriate efforts to meet the security needs of Jewish communities. Such attacks are a strong reminder of the need to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms – including the freedom of speech – and for effective responses to all bias, discrimination and violence targeting different communities. Saturday’s shooting followed the killing, on 7 January 2015, of 12 people in an attack on the Charlie Hebdo Magazine, of a police officer on the next day, and then of four people during an attack on a kosher