Danish PM Frederiksen calls suspected terror arrests ‘as serious as it gets’

(Local) Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen described three terror-related arrests made by police across Denmark on Thursday as “as serious as it gets.”

A major police action on Thursday morning resulted in three arrests in Denmark, while a related [arrest] was made by police in The Netherlands. The three arrested persons in Denmark will face preliminary terrorism charges.

The arrests were made as the result of what intelligence services called a “security action” based on an “intensive investigation in cooperation with our foreign partners.”

Authorities have given little detail on the motive or target of the plans, but have confirmed a link to organised crime group Loyal to Familia (LTF), which was in 2021 legally dissolved by the Danish Supreme Court.

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