Omar El-Hussein, the Dane of Palestinian origin named in the media as the perpetrator of two deadly shootings in Copenhagen at the weekend, had several brushes with the law before attacking a cultural centre and a synagogue. People who knew 22-year-old El-Hussein, including a former classmate who talked to AFP, described him as smart and helpful but that he also had a darker side. He had good grades at school, he had friends and he was a good classmate," Julie, a former schoolmate who asked for her surname to be kept secret, told AFP. El-Hussein was born in Copenhagen to Palestinian parents who fled to Denmark via a refugee camp in Jordan, according to the Danish daily newspaper Politiken.
02-22-2015, 05:32 PM
Suspected Copenhagen gunman: Petty criminal to cold-blooded killer
Omar El-Hussein, the Dane of Palestinian origin named in the media as the perpetrator of two deadly shootings in Copenhagen at the weekend, had several brushes with the law before attacking a cultural centre and a synagogue. People who knew 22-year-old El-Hussein, including a former classmate who talked to AFP, described him as smart and helpful but that he also had a darker side. He had good grades at school, he had friends and he was a good classmate," Julie, a former schoolmate who asked for her surname to be kept secret, told AFP. El-Hussein was born in Copenhagen to Palestinian parents who fled to Denmark via a refugee camp in Jordan, according to the Danish daily newspaper Politiken.
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