Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein
Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein (born September 11, 1992 in Vordingborg , Zealand , Denmark ; † February 15, 2015 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish Islamist terrorist of Palestinian origin ( palæstinensiskdansker ) who carried out the attacks in Copenhagen in 2015 .
Life
Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein (nickname: "Little Hussein vom Platz") was born on September 11, 1992 as the eldest son of an immigrant family from Palestine who had come to Denmark from a Jordanian refugee camp. He grew up with his younger brother in the predominantly migrant residential complex Mjølnerparken in Copenhagen's Nørrebro district .
School education
After the parents divorced, El-Hussein lived with his mother. From 2003 to 2004 he attended Rådmandsgades Skole (primary school) in Nørrebro. There were behavioral problems, so the mother was invited to the school for a consultation with El-Hussein's teachers. Since the mother also had difficulties bringing up El-Hussein, she decided to send him to her family, who lived in Jordan.
The headmistress and teacher tried to dissuade his mother from doing this because they did not think it would make sense to send a 12-year-old boy to a foreign country whose language he could hardly or not understand. They thought it would be better for the boy's development to leave him in his familiar surroundings. But the mother could not be changed. El-Hussein was sent to Jordan in 2006 and spent the next three years there.
According to his own statements (in court), he also went to school in Jordan before returning to Denmark in 2009. However, he never went back to school and, as a result, did not graduate from school.
Slipping into crime
The terrorist attack by El-Hussein on 14./15. February 2015 had a long "lead time". El-Hussein slipped into crime early. At the end of 2009 he - together with a Turkish accomplice who was four years his senior - was caught for the first time for several burglaries and was placed in custody. In several break-ins in Hellerup , Østerbro and Nørrebro, the two stole computers, televisions, cell phones, digital cameras, jewelry, watches and savings.
In February 2010, El-Hussein was released from custody. While he was waiting for the trial or the verdict, he continued his robbery with two more burglaries in May and October 2010 in Fredriksberg . In late 2010, he was arrested again by the police for these two break-ins. In March 2011, he and his accomplice were sentenced to one year in prison by a Copenhagen court for a total of twelve break-ins and a whole series of break-in attempts between December 2009 and December 2010. The court found it aggravating that El-Hussein had again committed burglaries while he was waiting for his trial or judgment. However, on July 2, 2011, El-Hussein was released from prison. The length of his detention was reduced because he had no criminal record.
Two years later - in 2013 - he was on trial again. A Frederiksberg court sentenced him to one and a half years in prison for burglary, car theft and dangerous physical harm. In addition to the various thefts, he had hit a person with fists in the entrance of a fitness center in June 2011.
On August 16, 2013, a Copenhagen court sentenced him to 21 days in prison, suspended for one year, for repeated violations of the weapons law (possession or carrying jack knives, daggers, etc.). But just three months later - on November 22, 2013 - he stabbed a 19-year-old several times with a knife in the subway for no apparent reason and seriously injured him. After two months of escape, he was finally caught by the police and sentenced in December 2014 by a court in Frederiksberg to just two years in prison for gross assault.
The original attempted manslaughter charge was reduced to gross assault after El-Hussein successfully pleaded cannabis use and severe anxiety. Because of his long detention and in anticipation of an appeal hearing, he was released and released on January 30, 2015.
Voksenundervisningscenter / VUC
Despite criminality and occasional involvement in the gang milieu, El-Hussein tried again in 2012 to steer his life back on track. He began an apprenticeship at the Voksenundervisningscenter / VUC (Center for Adult Education) in the Copenhagen suburb of Hvidovre, which should lead him to higher education.
"He was a very hard-working and talented student who did well professionally," said the rector Peter Zinkernagel on Danish television. The whole school was shocked that he committed the two terrorist attacks over the weekend. Classmates described him as aggressively quick-tempered and a loner on the one hand, but also as smart, sociable and someone who also had friends on the other. He mostly stuck to his Muslim classmates. A classmate told the newspaper “Politiken” that El-Hussein always made it very clear that he hated Jews. "He wasn't afraid to say out loud that he hated Jews," a former classmate told the Ekstrabladet . Time and again he had passionately discussed the conflict between Israel and Palestine with his classmates. From one minute to the next, he was completely blown away. However, nothing came of his graduation from the Center for Adult Education when he seriously injured a young person with several knife wounds in a Copenhagen S-Bahn in November 2013. As a result, he was expelled from school, which at the same time had shattered his plan to study at university.
Extremist remarks during his detention
During his detention, El-Hussein caught the prison staff's attention through numerous extremist statements. He spoke openly about his wish to fight for the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) in Syria . Because of this, the prison authorities put his name on a list of radicalized inmates. A corresponding report was made to the Danish domestic intelligence and security service - PET ( Politiets Efterretningstjeneste ).
The attack
In the attacks on participants in a discussion event in a cultural café on the subject of "Art, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression" with the Swedish Mohammed cartoonist Lars Vilks and on the Great Synagogue in central Copenhagen, he killed two people between February 14 and 15, 2015 seriously injured five others. The murder victims were Danish director Finn Nørgaard and Dan Uzan, a synagogue guard. El-Hussein was caught by Danish security forces on February 15, 2015 in Copenhagen and killed in an exchange of fire.
Nameless grave
The body of Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein was buried after Friday prayers in the Muslim cemetery of Brøndby on the outskirts of Copenhagen. According to the police, almost 500 people attended the ceremony. The grave was not marked with his name.
Individual evidence
- ↑ An allusion to his height (1.88 m) and Blågårds Plads, a place in the Copenhagen district of Nørrebro, which was frequented by criminal young people with a migration background. ABC News February 17, 2015: Bio of Copenhagen Gunman Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein
- ↑ Information February 18, 2015: Omar begyndte som indbrudstyv (Omar began as a burglar) + picture
- ^ Rheinische Post February 24, 2015: The assassin from the Danish Kreuzberg
- ↑ faz.net February 23, 2015: Attack in Copenhagen. In the shadow of terror
- ↑ Der Spiegel February 16, 2015: Attack in Copenhagen: The hatred of Omar El-Hussein
- ↑ faz.net February 16, 2015: Assassin El-Hussein. The Facebook jihadist
- ↑ Advice on February 18, 2015: Omars skoleleder: Vi prøvede at tale moren til fornuft
- ↑ Nyherderne TV 2 February 20, 2015: Skoleleder: Forbyd genopdragelse i hjemlandet
- ↑ According to El-Hussein's own statements in court, he returned to Denmark in August 2010. The fact is, however, that he was back in Denmark (at the latest) in December 2009, as in the course of the court hearing he admitted to having committed several break-ins in December 2009 s. Nyherderne TV 2 February 17, 2015: Overblik: Se mistænkt attentatmands long synderegister
- ↑ Nyheder February 17, 2015: Skoleleder: Vi forsøgte at tale Omar og hans mor til fornuft
- ↑ Nyherderne TV 2 February 17, 2015: Overblik: Se mistænkt attentatmands long synderegister
- ↑ Information February 18, 2015: Omar begyndte som indbrudstyv
- ↑ Nyherderne TV 2 February 17, 2015: Overblik: Se mistænkt attentatmands long synderegister
- ↑ Nyherderne TV 2 February 17, 2015: Overblik: Se mistænkt attentatmands long synderegister
- ↑ taz February 16, 2015: "With him the fuse was short"
- ↑ faz.net February 16, 2015: Attacks in Copenhagen. Suspected shooter angry at Israel
- ↑ Der Spiegel February 17, 2015: Paris, Toulouse, Copenhagen: What connects the assassins
- ^ Danish Ministry of Education: The General Adult Education Program
- ^ Adult vocational training in Denmark
- ↑ Overview of the Danish Education System ( Memento of the original dated May 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Die Welt February 16, 2015: "Before jail, he was a really cool guy"
- ↑ Die Welt February 16, 2015: "He was a very hardworking and talented student"
- ↑ faz.net February 16, 2015: Assassin El-Hussein. The Facebook jihadist
- ↑ faz.net February 16, 2015: Assassin El-Hussein. The Facebook jihadist
- ^ The Guardian February 16, 2015: Copenhagen shooting suspect Omar el-Hussein - a past full of contradictions
- ↑ faz.net February 16, 2015: Assassin El-Hussein. The Facebook jihadist
- ↑ faz.net February 16, 2015: Assassin El-Hussein. The Facebook jihadist
- ↑ Der Spiegel February 16, 2015: Attack in Copenhagen: The hatred of Omar El-Hussein
- ↑ faz.net February 16, 2015: Attacks in Copenhagen. Suspected shooter angry at Israel
- ^ Die Presse February 20, 2015: Nameless grave for assassins
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | El-Hussein, Omar Abdel Hamid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish terrorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1992 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vordingborg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 2015 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |