Danish police close investigation into Old Stock Exchange fire

Danish police said they are closing the investigation into the devastating fire which destroyed more than half of Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange in April (Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix/AP)

Danish police said on Tuesday that they are closing the investigation into the devastating fire which destroyed more than half of Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange, saying there has been nothing to indicate the blaze was the result of a criminal act.

Despite extensive forensic investigations, review of surveillance and the questioning of a large number of witnesses, “it is not possible to determine the cause of the fire in the historic stock exchange building”, said Brian Belling, the Copenhagen police officer in charge of the inquiry.