Mette Frederiksen ten years after the terrorist attack on Krudttønden: Everyone has a responsibility – also those with an immigrant background

Despite the terror attack at Krudttønden and the Jewish synagogue in Copenhagen ten years ago, which led to harsher penalties and increased funding for police and authorities, we must continue to work hard to prevent new terror attacks.

This is what Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) said on the tenth anniversary of the attack, which resulted in two deaths.

- We are in a new reality where people have come here who do not wish us well, says Mette Frederiksen.

- I carry a rage over this, because it is completely incomprehensible to me that someone comes to Denmark and then destroys the country. We cannot remove this, for they are here, and they do not wish us well.

The Copenhagen Synagogue in Krystalgade is patrolled by the police. Here, the 37-year-old guard Dan Uzan was killed. Omar el-Hussein was subsequently identified as the suspected perpetrator. He was subsequently killed by the police on February 15, 2015. (Photo: © Thomas Traasdahl, Ritzau Scanpix)

She states that politicians and authorities are doing everything they can to prevent new attacks, but that it is not a guarantee that it will not happen again.

Therefore, she urges the entire country to help prevent new victims of terror attacks in Denmark.

- I have to say to the whole of Denmark that one must say no to this. There is no one who should allow anti-Semitism or hatred towards other minorities to pass. Imams should be more active, and mosques and housing associations should close it down, she says.

In addition, she also urges families with immigrant backgrounds to say no to Jewish hatred.

- Families should continue to talk about it at home, because new generations are being raised to continue carrying, for example, anti-Semitism further. There are some parents who should stop passing it on. So everyone has a responsibility, she says.

According to the Prime Minister, politicians are already doing a lot to stop the development.

This is happening, among other things, with a strict immigration policy and by sending home those who commit crimes. And this is something that Mette Frederiksen will continue to try to tighten even more.

It was at Krudttønden on Østerbro in Copenhagen that the terror attack took place on February 12 ten years ago. Here, film director Finn Nørgaard was killed by gunfire. (Photo: © Liselotte Sabroe, Ritzau Scanpix)

- I would very much like to have sent more of those who commit crimes home, she says.

Some will say that the politicians' rhetoric can be part of creating feelings among certain groups that can radicalize them. Can you understand that?

- Overwhelmingly not. I will not have that hanging over me or my colleagues, answers Mette Frederiksen.

- If we take the perpetrator of the terror attack ten years ago, he was a young man with Palestinian roots who was taken in by the best country in the world.

- We have wasted unfathomable resources on him and his family. That it is a political debate that has caused him to kill people, I simply do not acknowledge, she says.

With the war in Ukraine, the threat from Russia and the risk of terror and hybrid warfare, the Prime Minister understands the unease among the population especially now.

- I will not say that one should not be concerned. Because there are many things to be concerned about.

- We are in a time now that is more uncertain and dangerous than it has been throughout my entire life. I cannot take away this concern, because it is real, says Mette Frederiksen.

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