COPENHAGEN – Thousands of people of different faiths have formed a human ring outside the synagogue in Copenhagen where a Jewish security guard was fatally shot last month.
Organizer Niddal El-Jabr says the idea behind the show of unity was to “send a powerful statement” that “Jews should be able to have their religion in peace.”
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Saturday’s gathering was inspired by similar symbolic events in Scandinavia in recent weeks. On Feb. 27, Copenhagen’s mayor joined a “ring of peace” on the nearby City Hall square. Police then had banned any events outside the synagogue, citing security.
On Feb. 15, Omar El-Hussein killed Dan Uzan, the synagogue guard, hours after he fatally shot Danish filmmaker Finn Noergaard at a free speech event at another location in Copenhagen.
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