Danish PM weeps at funeral of slain Jewish guard in Copenhagen
“The Jewish world embraces you at this difficult time,” Natan Sharansky, the Jewish Agency’s chairman, told the slain officers family at the funeral.
By JTADanish Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt (C) reacts after the funeral ceremony of shooting victim Dan Uzan, who died on Saturday when a gunman attacked a synagogue, in Copenhagen February 18, 2015.(photo credit: REUTERS)
Dan Uzan, the Jewish volunteer guard killed in a shooting outside Copenhagen’s central synagogue, was remembered at his funeral as one “who was always ready to do his part.”“Everybody in our community knew Dan,” said Dan Rosenberg, head of the Danish Jewish community, on Wednesday at the Mosaiske Vestre Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen. “He was always ready to do his part; he was a very fine example for the whole community.”Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt was among the hundreds of mourners who attended the funeral, which was held under tight security, the French news agency AFP reported.Jewish synagogue shooting victim laid to rest in Copenhagen“The Jewish world embraces you at this difficult time,” Natan Sharansky, the Jewish Agency’s chairman, told Uzan’s family at the funeral.Uzan, who had an Israeli father and a Danish mother, died early Sunday morning from injuries sustained in the attack on the Danish capital’s central synagogue in Krystalgade. He was 37.Uzan was standing guard outside the synagogue at an event held at an adjacent building for approximately 80 people who had gathered for a bat mitzvah. The attack occurred hours after a fatal shooting Saturday afternoon at a free speech event at a cultural center featuring the Danish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who is under police protection because of his cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad.Danish police in a shootout Sunday killed the suspected gunman in both attacks.
