Mourners crowd on February 18, 2015 at a cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark, where a Jewish victim of the February 15, 2015 attacks is to be buried. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / SCANPIX DENMARK / BAX LINDHARDT)
Crowds of mourners turn out for the funeral of the Jewish man killed in the Copenhagen shooting spree, as questions mount about whether more could have been done to prevent the attacks.
Dan Uzan, a 37-year-old volunteer security guard, was killed outside Copenhagen’s main synagogue in the second of two weekend shootings that sent jitters across Europe.
Security was tight as hundreds of people gather at a Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen for Uzan’s funeral, with police out in force along with sniffer dogs and snipers posted on nearby rooftops.
Mourners crowd on February 18, 2015 at a cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark, where a Jewish victim of the February 15, 2015 attacks is to be buried. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / SCANPIX DENMARK / BAX LINDHARDT)
Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who said this week that “an attack on the Jews of Denmark is an attack on Denmark”, plans to attend the ceremony, according to Ritzau news agency.
“Everybody in our community knew Dan,” Dan Rosenberg Asmussen, the head of the Danish Jewish community, tells AFP.
“He was always ready to his part, he was a very fine example for the whole community.”
— AFP
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