Iran Embassy assailant indicted by Denmark
A knife-wielding assailant who intruded into the Iranian Embassy compound in Copenhagen with the intent to assassinate the ambassador last October has been finally indicted by a Danish prosecutor.
The 33-year-old assailant has been charged with aggravated assault against Iran’s Ambassador Afsaneh Nadipour as well as inflicting property damage on the embassy building and automobiles, according to a statement released Friday by the prosecutor’s office, which further noted that Denmark’s justice minister has accepted the charges brought against the suspect.
The assailant entered the embassy compound on October 7, 2022, and tried to attack and seriously harm the female Iranian ambassador by rushing towards her with a knife, injuring a local employee of the diplomatic post who tried to stop him, Press TV wrote.
According to the prosecutor’s statement, the attempted assault on Nadipour was thwarted by an embassy employee, and the suspect was then arrested by the Copenhagen police and has since remained in custody.
The statement said the inability of a foreign diplomat in Denmark to perform his or her duties without fear of being physically attacked is a very serious matter and totally unacceptable, adding under such circumstances, the diplomat — by law — must come under police protection.
Denmark’s ambassador to Iran extended his country’s apology, promising that security measures for the Iranian embassy would be upgraded.