The day Denmark resembled a police state.
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A small corner of normally, tranquil, peaceful, happy, laid back Denmark, resembled a police state this week. Scores of officers armed with assault rifles backed up by masked special forces in camouflaged gear surrounded Copenhagen’s Vestre Cemetery. They were burying Dan Uzan, the Jewish security guard, shot dead outside Copenhagen’s main synagogue by a radical Islamist gangster following his murderous attack a few hours earlier on a free speech forum. The funeral took place as right leaning politicians proposed a five point plan to improve security and counter the radicalisation of young Muslims, and Queen Margrethe the Second urged immigrants to strive to integrate. Here’s our correspondent Malcolm Brabant