The 2016 Copenhagen terror plot was foiled in November 2016 when a Syrian refugee Dieab K. tried to enter Denmark, but was refused entry and sent back to Germany where he was apprehended and found to be carrying bomb making materials and knives.
[3] After being refused entry into Denmark, his backpack was confiscated by the authorities and he continued by train to the refugee shelter in Biberach, where he was shortly thereafter apprehended.
[4] In December 2017, the Syrian asylum seeker residing in Sweden was jailed for planning to attack random victims with a knife in Copenhagen in Denmark.
[1] According to the judge, Dieab K. was completely under the influence of the Islamic State and that he methodically was following a plan for the terrorist attack.
[5] In April 2019 the 30-year-old, now 32, was sentenced by Københavns Byret for having brought bomb making materials on a trip from Sweden in cooperation with the 21-year-old.