Anxiety over her daughter spoke louder. But Mahdi al-Wazani grabbed his cell phone and began filming in an attempt to deter the shooter. This is a story with a happy ending, one afternoon that turned out to be tragic.
It was a Sunday like many others for 34-year-old Mahdi Wazani. As a family, have a meal at one of the restaurants in Fields, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Until the panic around him resolved, with Shooting in the mall.
“I was in the restaurant area, upstairs in Fields, with my family, when we heard people screaming and running for an exit. I asked my brother to gather the children so we could leave,” he told the Danish press.
But suddenly, Mehdi realized that his two-year-old daughter was not there. While searching for her, he crossed aisles with the shooter, who authorities confirmed was a 22-year-old Dane. The first reaction was to start shooting, so that the suspect – who was dressed in hunting clothes – would not shoot. They were face to face.
“He laughed and said it wasn’t real shots, maybe he was trying to trick me into getting close. He shot the windows and broke them. I think five or six times, but I haven’t seen him hit anyone,” he recalls.
The police appeared shortly thereafter, after issuing an alarm at around 5:30 p.m. The suspect exited the shopping center and was arrested outside. The authorities indicate that it caused many deaths and injuries, although there are no concrete figures.
You will find out her daughter’s past. The girl was locked in a room with another family member for several hours. I was afraid something would happen to him. I didn’t feel anything else while I was in front of him. I had to find it. Then I started filming to make sure I would score if he wanted to shoot me.”
Since 2015, Denmark has not experienced such an attack. At the time, the author, also 22, killed a man in a debate organized by a cartoonist of Muhammad and another man at a synagogue in central Copenhagen. Contrary to what happened on Sunday, the police shot him.
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