Four arrested in Denmark and Netherlands suspected of planning terror attacks

Chief police inspector and operational chief of PET Flemming Drejer, right, and senior police inspector and head of emergency services in Copenhagen Police Peter Dahl give a press briefing at the police station in Copenhagen, Denmark (Martin Sylvest/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Police have arrested three people in co-ordinated actions across Denmark and one person was detained in the Netherlands on suspicion of plotting to carry out “an act of terror”, authorities said.

Danish officials have stopped short of indicating what the suspected terror plots were connected to other than saying the arrests in Denmark had “threads abroad” and were “related to criminal gangs”, singling out the banned, predominantly immigrant gang Loyal to Familia.