Below is the first part of news report from DR (the Danish state broadcaster) that aired on Tuesday evening, the same day that a would-be assassin attempted to kill Lars Hedegaard.
Many thanks to Cecilie for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript:
| 00:12 | A shooting attack today against the Islam-critical debater and chairman | |
| 00:16 | of the Free Press Society, Lars Hedegaard in his residence at Fredriksberg. | |
| 00:19 | A bullet went straight over his head but he wasn’t hit. | |
| 00:24 | It is terrible that our society has come to this: | |
| 00:27 | That an attempted murder is threatening (unclear). | |
| 00:30 | The assassination attempt was denounced today on all sides of Christiansborg. | |
| 00:34 | It is very serious and it is reprehensible that such an attack on Lars Hedegaard has taken place. | |
| 00:43 | Good evening and welcome to TV Newspaper. which will | |
| 00:46 | chiefly be about the attack on Lars Hedegaard. | |
| 00:50 | We go directly to Copenhagen Police Headquarters where | |
| 00:53 | there is a press conference about the incident. | |
| 00:55 | Today at 11.20 there was an attack on Lars Hedegaard Jensen at his residence | |
| 01:04 | The chain of events is that someone rang his doorbell, and he thought | |
| 01:10 | it was the postman who came to deliver a parcel to the flat above. | |
| 01:15 | He goes downstairs to get the parcel. | |
| 01:19 | When he opens the door a gun is aimed at him and there is a shot. | |
| 01:23 | He possibly ducks but it’s hard to say exactly what happened in such an event. | |
| 01:31 | Anyway, he’s fortunately not hit. There is a scuffle between LH and the suspect. | |
| 01:37 | During the scuffle he drops his gun. They fight on, | |
| 01:42 | he unfortunately picks up the gun and shoots again, or tries to. | |
| 01:47 | The gun jams and he runs away. | |
| 01:51 | That is the chain of events. | |
| 01:55 | The perpetrator is a man, about 25 years old, 175 to 180 cm tall. | |
| 02:03 | He is of average build. | |
| 02:06 | He has dark hair and dark stubble. | |
| 02:09 | He is described by the victim as having southern (Mediterranean) features. | |
| 02:14 | Perhaps Arab. | |
| 02:16 | He is wearing a red jacket, | |
| 02:20 | which the victim describes as a post office uniform jacket. | |
| 02:24 | The jacket is made in a thin material, maybe nylon. | |
| 02:30 | It could be a rain jacket; we can’t be sure. | |
| 02:35 | After the attack the perpetrator disappears from | |
| 02:38 | the Pelargonie Road and up towards (unclear) Road. | |
| 02:40 | Nobody can verify that they have seen him after that. | |
| 02:47 | So we are very interested in witnesses who may have seen the perpetrator before the incident | |
| 02:54 | That is to say, up until 11.20, | |
| 02:57 | He disappeared in an unknown direction, we have to say, | |
| 03:02 | after he ran towards (unclear) Road. | |
| 03:05 | He may have run up towards Roskilde Road, he may he run towards Velang (?) Street, | |
| 03:10 | He could have continued through Sunde Marten (?) and towards Pilealleen, we don’t know. | |
| 03:14 | We have received a number of calls | |
| 03:17 | and there are some calls that we will follow up. | |
| 03:25 | It is very important for us to say that we haven’t caught the perpetrator, and are interested in | |
| 03:31 | receiving calls from the public. | |
| 03:34 | We have police officers sitting in our service centres on 114, | |
| 03:38 | who are ready to take statements from witnesses. | |
| 03:41 | If someone knows something, they mustn’t hesitate. They mustn’t | |
| 03:44 | think that the police know this already; they have to call us. | |
| 03:47 | Yes, questions? (unclear) | |
| 03:55 | We have many angles of investigation and it could be anything. | |
| 03:58 | Lars Hedegaard is a well-known person and we have all day taken into consideration | |
| 04:02 | a political motive, but the only thing we can categorically say is we don’t know. | |
| 04:06 | We are of course investigating what the motive could be, | |
| 04:10 | but what is important to point out is that the perpetrator speaks Danish without an accent, | |
| 04:17 | so it’s definitely not a foreigner. | |
| 04:27 | We don’t know at this early stage but of course we’re doing everything | |
| 04:31 | we possibly can to secure the trail (clues) out on the street. | |
| 04:34 | It’s standard procedure when a person has been subjected to such an attack, | |
| 04:42 | and in such close contact with the perpetrator, one is dusted for DNA | |
| 04:46 | but we can’t say anything about the results now, the tests will show. | |
| 04:49 | Of course we’re investigating a number of things, | |
| 04:52 | I myself have been following events out there today, I have | |
| 04:56 | seen (unclear) and that is because we have found a parcel, | |
| 04:59 | the parcel which the perpetrator brought, | |
| 05:01 | and I can say that in that parcel there was nothing, the parcel was empty, | |
| 05:08 | and it will of course also be examined. | |
| 05:10 | There have been rumours about it being a bomb — it wasn’t. | |
| 05:17 | And we leave the press conference at Copenhagen’s | |
| 05:20 | Police Headquarters; we’ll show more at DR Update and also on dr.dk. | |
| 05:24 | But now I have on the line the man of the hour, so to speak, Lars Hedegaard. | |
| 05:30 | You say that you’ve been interviewed by the police all day today, | |
| 05:33 | and we understand it’s a terrible thing to have been subjected to. | |
| 05:36 | Tell us, Lars Hedegaard, how are you feeling this evening? | |
| 05:39 | Well, I’m a little groggy after having spent the whole day sitting | |
| 05:42 | in police interviews and physical examinations for evidence and so on, | |
| 05:46 | since just after 11 this morning so. | |
| 05:48 | and it’s not over yet, so yes, I have to say I’m a little tired mentally. | |
| 05:54 | Try to tell me: It must have been quite awful, the doorbell rings, | |
| 05:58 | you answer the door, there’s a man with a gun aimed at you. | |
| 06:01 | What did you think during those seconds? | |
| 06:02 | It wasn’t like that. He wasn’t pointing a gun at me. | |
| 06:07 | I opened the door to receive what I thought was a parcel | |
| 06:11 | from a postman. | |
| 06:13 | and when I take it he immediately draws a gun and shoots at my head. | |
| 06:18 | He is standing a metre away from me but still he misses. That was very lucky. | |
| 06:24 | And… then I understand that this is completely wrong …(unclear) and then it’s as if the gun jams, | |
| 06:37 | and he’s standing there fiddling with it, | |
| 06:40 | possibly to fire again. | |
| 06:41 | And I then I attack him, | |
| 06:44 | and try to hit him in the head. | |
| 06:47 | What is it, do you think, that makes you attack … how could you react like that? | |
| 06:54 | It was instinct, the survival instinct. If I hadn’t done it I would definitely have been dead. | |
| 06:59 | Because I couldn’t run when he was standing there with a gun in his hand and wants to shoot me, | |
| 07:07 | So I presume that’s why it ended the way it did. | |
| 07:12 | Lars Hedegaard, everyone’s talking about why this happened. What do you think? | |
| 07:20 | I have many thoughts but I think that it’s better to keep them to myself. | |
| 07:25 | For the time being. | |
| 07:28 | But one can ask why someone would try to kill me. | |
| 07:35 | I’m not a drug smuggler or human trafficker | |
| 07:38 | or have dealings on the black market | |
| 07:40 | or anything else. One can speculate, but I’d rather not do it here. | |
| 07:51 | Finally, I would like to ask you: What happens now, what will you do now? | |
| 07:56 | I don’t know. I haven’t finished talking to the police and | |
| 08:00 | I don’t know … I actually don’t know anything about my future. | |
| 08:05 | Except that they won’t be able to shut me up. | |
| 08:10 | I will continue to write and speak the truth as I see it | |
| 08:14 | and won’t be intimidated into shutting up. | |
| 08:21 | Lars Hedegaard, thank you for taking the time to speak with us. Goodbye. | |
| 08:23 | So let’s turn the clock back to this morning when the | |
| 08:26 | Islam-critical debater and chairman of Free Press Society | |
| 08:28 | Lars Hedegaard, whom we just talked to, was subject to an assassination attempt at his residence. | |
| 08:32 | The shooting incident took place in Pelargonie Road in Fredriksberg. | |
| 08:40 | where the perpetrator tried to shoot Lars Hedegaard. | |
| 08:43 | Hedegaard wasn’t hit. | |
| 08:46 | At 11:21 the police received a call about shots being fired at Lars Hedegaard. | |
| 08:50 | The incident started with LH’s intercom buzzing. | |
| 08:55 | He looked out the window and thought it was the postman, as the man was | |
| 08:58 | carrying a parcel and was dressed in a red postal worker’s jacket. | |
| 09:01 | But when Hedegaard opened the door, the person shot at his head but missed. | |
| 09:07 | Then Hedegaard counterattacked. | |
| 09:10 | There was a fight when Hedegaard saw that the perpetrator had a gun. | |
| 09:15 | Fortunately Hedegaard wasn’t hit and managed to close his door. | |
| 09:22 | The perpetrator ran away from Hedegaard’s residence, possibly into the zoo | |
| 09:27 | Police have been searching the area all afternoon. | |
| 09:30 | The motive for the assassination attempt is so far unknown, but it | |
| 09:34 | could be connected to Lars Hedegaard’s many years’ criticism of Islam. | |
| 09:38 | I see Islam as the greatest threat to our freedom today. | |
| 09:41 | In 2009 he was accused of making racist statements after | |
| 09:45 | this clip about Muslims was posted on a website. | |
| 10:01 | LH was found guilty in the District court but later acquitted in the High Court. | |
| 10:05 | Hedegaard is the chairman of the Free Press Society, | |
| 10:08 | which fights for the right to express oneself freely, | |
| 10:10 | and its members are shaken. | |
| 10:15 | It is terrible that our society has come to this: | |
| 10:18 | That an attempted murder is threatening (unclear) | |
| 10:20 | Well, my colleague is at police headquarters and I can see it’s a bit dark where you are, | |
| 10:26 | but we’d like to know: How far have the police got in their investigations this evening? | |
| 10:33 | They still have a long way to go before they can catch | |
| 10:36 | the suspect, according to what they have just said. | |
| 10:40 | They don’t have any significant trace of the perpetrator. It’s possible that they | |
| 10:46 | do have something in the way of DNA, fingerprints, etc., but as for now they can’t be sure. | |
| 10:53 | So we ask all Copenhagen people to be on the lookout for this man | |
| 10:57 | of about 25 years of age, possibly wearing a postal worker’s jacket. | |
| 11:02 | Sorry, Claus, I can’t really see you right now. | |
| 11:07 | On the other hand we have a description of the man, | |
| 11:12 | about 25 years old, 175 to 180cm tall, foreigner, | |
| 11:19 | thick stubble on the chin, red postal jacket and light shoes. |
For previous posts on the assassination attempt, see the Lars Hedegaard page.
Notice the dhimmitude of the interviewer. She is astonished that another kuffar should be prepared to attack the uber-mensch who attempted to kill Mr. Hedegaard.
The same dhimmitude is to be found in the reports by the BBC and The Guardian, where Mr. Hedegaard is portrayed as a criminal who has provoked this response from the Ummah.
If he’d have been a muslim they would have portrayed Mr. Hedegaard as the victim rather than falsely portray him as a criminal.