Danes Form Human Chains Outside Synagogue in Show of Unity

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Source: Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Mar 14, 2015, 11:12 AM ET

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."

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.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/danes-form-human-chains-synagogue-show-unity-29636052

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in a long tradition. The Danes took in quite a few German Jews prior to WWII. When it looked as if Germany was about to overwhelm Denmark, they put these Jew and their own on boats and sailed them to Sweden. (The story about King Christian and the yellow star is probably not true, but might have been. The Danes are good people.)