COPENHAGEN

An Islamic extremist can't summon the necessary fervor while making a video hailing the jihadi cause in a scene from "Timbuktu," an Oscar nominee for best foreign language film that is based on the militant takeover of the ancient city in Mali in 2012.
     

Tens of thousands of Danes have gathered for a torchlit vigil in Copenhagen to commemorate the victims of two shootings that shocked the nation and heightened fears of a new surge in anti-Semitic violence.
      

Two men have been arrested and charged with helping the attacker who killed two people in Copenhagen at the weekend, the BBC reported on Monday.

Danish police have accused the two men of providing the weapon to the gunman and helping him get rid of it. They are also charged with assisting the perpetrator to hide.

Two men were charged on Monday with helping the gunman who killed two people in twin attacks in Copenhagen at the weekend, a lawyer said.
      
"They are not charged with terrorism but they are charged with having helped the perpetrator get rid of a weapon and giving him a hiding place," the lawyer of one of the men, Michael Juul Eriksen, told AFP.
     

Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Feb. 16 urged France's Jews to stay in the country after a fresh call by the Israeli premier for European Jews to emigrate to Israel.
      
"My message to French Jews is the following: France is wounded with you and France does not want you to leave," Valls said.
      

A parade in the city of Braunschweig, Northern Germany, has been canceled due to a terror alert.

The spectacular event was due to begin at 12:20 local time (11:20 GMT), but "reliable state sources" became aware of a "concrete threat", according to DW.

President Klaus Iohannis strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on Saturday night and underlines Romania's support for the fight against terrorism, a press release by the Presidential Administration reads on Sunday.

Photo: (c) Alex Micsik / AGERPRES Photo

The Greek Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Sunday, condemning the terrorist attack that occurred yesterday in Copenhagen, during a debate on blasphemy and freedom of speech.

The statement reads:

"We categorically condemn and express our abhorrence of the armed terrorist attack that took place today in Copenhagen during a public event for freedom of speech.

Bulgaria is strongly condemning the attacks in Copenhagen which took [two] lives and wounded innocent citizens, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia has said in a statement.

Minister Daniel Mitov has described the events of Saturday as "yet another terror act targeting one of our supreme values - freedom of speech."

 Danish police said on Feb. 15 a gunman killed by officers after two fatal shootings in Copenhagen may have been inspired by last month's Islamist attacks in Paris.
      
The man, believed to be the sole perpetrator of what the Danish prime minister called "a cynical act of terror", was previously known to intelligence services, police said.