2 Swedes jailed in Denmark, found guilty of terrorism, for 2024 attack on Israeli embassy

Two young Swedes are sentenced to jail terms for throwing grenades at Israel’s embassy in Denmark in October 2024.

A Copenhagen court sentences an 18-year-old to 12 years in prison and a 21-year-old to 14 years after finding them guilty of “terrorism” in the incident.

“The two men threw the grenades with the intention of seriously frightening the Israeli and Danish populations — the attack therefore constitutes a terrorist act,” police say in a statement.

The Copenhagen court also rules that the two men, aged 16 and 18 at the time, acted in concert after prior agreement with one or more unidentified accomplices belonging to a criminal network in Sweden.

During the hearing, the youngest of the two, who is also being prosecuted in Sweden for shooting at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, admits to being a member of the Foxtrot criminal network, which had recruited him during his years in school.

“The criminal network acted as the armed wing of a Middle Eastern terrorist organization in Denmark, where the Israeli embassy had been designated as the target of the attack,” prosecutor Soren Harbo says in the press release.

In the middle of the night on October 2, 2024, two grenades damaged the terrace of a house next to the diplomatic mission in the upscale Hellerup neighborhood. No one was injured.

Police identified the DNA of the younger man on a grenade found in the building’s garden.

The two are also convicted of attempted murder against the occupants of the house, but acquitted of endangering the lives and physical safety of the soldiers guarding the embassy. They will be expelled to Sweden after serving their time.

In May 2024, Swedish intelligence services claimed that Iran was recruiting members of Swedish criminal gangs to carry out “acts of violence” against Israel, a claim Tehran denied.