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 supermarket near Paris on 9 January 2015. The attacks ealier this year followed the attack on four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May 2014, and the killing of four people in March 2012 in an attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.


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