Summary Shootings in Copenhagen followed same pattern as Islamist attacks in Paris: Jewish rights group
COPENHAGEN (AFP) - The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre on Monday said it feared the recent attacks against Jews in Copenhagen and Paris could be the start of a "pan-European epidemic" as it called for a Europe-wide conference against anti-Semitism.
The prominent Jewish rights group said the shootings in Copenhagen on Saturday followed the same pattern as the Islamist attacks in Paris last month, and were directed at "freedom of expression activists, police and Jewish institutions".
"Paris and Copenhagen are bound to be precedents for a pan-European epidemic. Condemnation is insufficient," the group said in the statement, addressed to European Council President Donald Tusk.
It called on Tusk to organise a conference to "combat anti-Semitism on every front".
The weekend attacks saw a gunman kill a 37-year-old Jewish man outside a synagogue as well as a 55-year-old film-maker attending a debate on Islam and freedom of the press at a cultural centre. The gunman was later shot dead by police.
The attacks came just over a month after the January 7-9 shootings in Paris that left 17 people dead, including a policewoman and four Jews at a kosher supermarket.
