Dane charged with defending terror attacks in France

(AFP) A Dane with dual nationality was on Monday charged with threatening to carry out attacks, inciting acts of terror and defending deadly attacks in France last year, prosecutors said.

The 46-year-old man’s posts on Twitter included a defence of two attacks in France in October 2020, said a statement from the prosecutors office.

In October last year, school teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded in the … Paris suburbs and a man stabbed three people to death inside a church in Nice in southern France.

A resident of the Copenhagen region, the man was arrested and detained shortly after having posted the tweets, prosecutors added.

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