Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt (C) attends the burial of Dan Uzan, Jewish victim of the February 15, 2015 attacks, at the Vestre Kirkegaard cemetery in Copenhagen on February 18, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Scanpix Denmark/ Bax Lindhart)
Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt leads hundreds of mourners Wednesday at the funeral of a Jewish man who was among two people killed in a shooting spree in Copenhagen.
Security is tight as crowds gathed at a Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen for the funeral of 37-year-old Dan Uzan, with large numbers of police along with sniffer dogs and snipers posted on nearby rooftops.
Thorning-Schmidt is seen wiping away tears as chief rabbi Yair Melchior conducts the service.
Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt (C) attends the burial of Dan Uzan, a Jewish victim of the February 15, 2015 attacks, at the Vestre Kirkegaard cemetery in Copenhagen on February 18, 2015. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / SCANPIX DENMARK / BAX LINDHARDT)
The weekend attacks on a cultural center and a synagogue blamed on a 22-year-old Danish man of Palestinian origin who reportedly became radicalized in prison, have raised questions about security in the normally peaceful nation.
“It was a funeral I hoped I would never (have to) conduct,” Melchior tells AFP.
“We did not want anything like that to happen, but we accept the reality and we said good-bye to a dear friend.”
— AFP
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