DENMARK: SECURITY AT UNITED NATIONS (U.N) SUMMIT INCREASED AS POLICE OFFICER FIRES WARTNING SHOTS AT SUSPECTS

Record ID: 337703

  • Title: DENMARK: SECURITY AT UNITED NATIONS (U.N) SUMMIT INCREASED AS POLICE OFFICER FIRES WARTNING SHOTS AT SUSPECTS
  • Date: 8th March 1995
  • Summary: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (MARCH 8, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/VARIOUS INCREASED SECURITY AT BELLA CONFERENCE CENTRE/ DELEGATES HAVING BAGS CHECKED/SECURITY CAMERAS (12 SHOTS) 0.55 2. GV/VARIOUS EXT./INT. AIRPORT/ PASSENGERS INSIDE TERMINAL/ PLANES ON TARMAC/TAKING OFF/POLICE CAR PATROLLING(8 SHOTS) 1.33 3. GV/SV HARBOUR 1.42 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 23rd March 1995 12:00
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  • Location: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
  • Reuters ID: LVADAXBVPLP7RFQQRB0PZV6I0V0
  • Story Text: Danish police said on Wednesday (March 8) an officer fired warning shots at suspected frogmen near Copenhagen airport close to where dozens of world leaders are attending a United Nations (U.N.) summit.

    Criminal Inspector Bent Hansen of Copenhagen police told Danish news agency Ritzau the police officer fired the shots at 04.00 a.m.

    local time (0300 gmt).

    Police mounted a major land and sea search around Copenhagen airport, used by hundreds of officials including United States First Lady Hillary Clinton, as they come and go from the U.N.

    Social Summit.

    Swedish news agency TT said Danish and Swedish police refused to give details of the search but quoted police sources as saying suspicious divers may have been spotted near the airport.

    TT said Copenhagen police had denied reports of gunfire near the airport.

    However, the Swedish agency also said police were hunting for three divers seen coming ashore in inflatable dinghies near Kastrup.

    Danish helicopters and Swedish coastguard vessels were involved in the search, the agency added.

    The Oresund Strait between Denmark and Sweden is only a few kilometers (miles) wide at its narrowest point near Copenhagen.

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