Danish broadcaster DR said the teenagers, aged 16 and 19, are suspected of acting "in association and together with prior agreement with one or more perpetrators."
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00:00Two Swedish teenagers have been arrested at Copenhagen train station in connection with
00:07two explosions near the Israeli embassy in the Danish capital on Wednesday.
00:12No one was injured in the pre-dawn blasts, which happened in a neighborhood that's home
00:16to several foreign diplomatic missions.
00:19The pair were ordered to be held in pre-trial detention for 27 days.
00:24They face preliminary charges of possessing illegal weapons and carrying five hand grenades.
00:29Two of the grenades blew up when the suspects threw them at a house near the embassy,
00:34but the Israeli mission wasn't damaged.
00:37Danish broadcaster DR said the teenagers, aged 16 and 19, are suspected of acting in
00:42association and together with prior agreement with one or more perpetrators.
00:47Denmark's prime minister said it was becoming increasingly dangerous to be a Jew in Europe.
00:53Anti-Semitism is on the rise. I can't take enough distance from it.
00:59I just want to say to both the Danish Jews and everyone else in their well-being,
01:05and luckily there are a lot of us, that the authorities are doing everything they can
01:11to take care of the Jewish minority in Denmark.
01:14This comes after shots were fired late on Tuesday at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm.
01:20No one was injured and no arrests have been made.
01:23The Danish domestic security service PET said that Swedish authorities had assessed that
01:28that attack had links to Iran.