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Defendants take stand in left-wing terror trial PETER STANNERS The five men accused of a rash of arson attacks across Copenhagen made their first appearance in the dock on Monday, where some admitted to making Molotov cocktails

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OLOTOV cocktails, clubs, flares, pepper spray, copies of the Anarchist’s Cookbook and a fertiliser bomb manual have all been presented as evidence in a trial against five men charged with terrorism that started this week. Four of the men were caught in April 2011 attempting to set fire to a

suburban Copenhagen police academy, and one was later apprehended by the police. They are all now charged under anti-terrorism legislation that carries a maximum penalty of life in prison for co-ordinating attacks designed to “grossly intimidate the population”. The case is without precedent as anti-terrorism legislation, first passed by parliament in 2002, has only been used to prosecute Islamic extremists such as the men that plotted a ‘Mumbai-style’ attack on the offices of Jyllands-Posten newspaper in retribution for printing the Mohammed cartoons. The men’s backgrounds have also been the focus of attention as they have all been linked to far-left activist groups

in Copenhagen and, according to media reports, come from middle-class professional households. Thorkild Høyer, a lawyer for one of the men, expected the trial to focus on whether the arson campaign the men carried out between 2010 and 2011 was politically motivated. “There are two main questions. The first is whether the accused planned these acts together. And the second question is whether it is terrorism,” Høyer told TV2 News. “You can question whether it was at all politically motivated, and even if it was, it won’t necessarily mean it was terrorism.” The men, aged 21 to 24, are accused of carrying out arson attacks against a

range of targets including the Greek Embassy, fur manufacturers, Nestlé, the police and the domestic intelligence agency PET. They also stand accused of planning attacks against the Justice Ministry, the house of parliament, AP Moller Maersk and the Immigration Ministry. They were apprehended after an anonymous tip-off in March 2012 led to the police starting the surveillance of a building in Christiania that the men were using as a clubhouse. Police used intelligence gathered from this surveillance to catch four of the men red-handed as they attempted to set fire to the police academy.

Terror trial continues on page 6

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