Police said on Friday that a 19-year-old Danish citizen who posted an Isis video to Facebook with a text viewed as a “threat to kill infidels” was being held in police custody.
East Jutland Police announced on Friday that, in co-operation with the
Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET), officers arrested a man
on Thursday for posting a video showing executions along with comments
that police considered to be a threat.
The video is believed to have been produced by Isis, also known as IS,
and shows a series of people buying murdered for alleging spying on the
terror group. The text the man posted along with the video was construed
as a threat by police and PET as seen as endorsing terror.
“The 19-year-old’s text on Facebook must be understood as a threat that
others who spy on IS will suffer the same fate as the people in the
video. On top of that, we are charging him for having put forth a more
general threat to kill infidels. He is additionally charged with
expressing approval for the terror actions shown in the video,” East
Jutland Police spokesman Jesper Bøjgaard Madsen said.
Madsen said he hoped the arrest would “have a preventative effect in
relation to others who are sitting at their computer and considering
doing something similar”.
“Together will PET, we are keeping an eye on these things and are now
sending a strong signal that one should refrain from carrying out such
actions because there is a risk of being charged with violating one of
the most serious sections of the penal code,” he said.
The 19-year-old, who police said is a Danish citizen, will be charged
with two crimes: threatening to commit terror and expressing approval of
terror.
The man was arrested in Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city and home to a controversial ‘jihadist rehab’ programme.
News Credit: thelocal.dk
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