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The government have promised a solution by 6 AM tomorrow. Public
transport is completely up-and-running by then and the highway roadblocks will
be lifted so the traffic can flow through as normal. He's looking at his new ROLEX
watch. In principle, he never uses the car or the watch on his phone. He loves his
watches and he has many in his collection.
Tom stares at his newly acquired Rolex. He hasn’t worn it to work yet,
with the Tag Heuer being the work-watch. The Rolex watch has cost over
150,000 kr.; he wears it as a symbol of all his hard work. The steadily increasing
high salary, which only he, Bjørn and Olina has in the agency, is the means that
makes purchases like this possible.
As he’s looking at his timepiece, he realizes he doesn’t have much time,
and for a rare occasion he is totally in line with the rest of the organization, the
Danish police and state – time is fleeting. He is pondering on he and Bjørn are
going to promise to the entire nation, that the threat is no longer there. It should
very well correspond with the reality of the situation. It must be as set in stone,
that the agency guarantees security. This means that before 3 AM tonight night,
they give strong evidence, which indicates that the attacks are directly targeted
at the agency and the Danish police - not civilians.
For the last two days, the news reports from where the attacks have taken
place have been running constantly on all TV channels both in Denmark and
abroad. Reports from the crime scenes, a slew of experts, witnesses, journalists,
politicians and of course various leaders from both the police and the military
have spoken out, but still without saying anything concrete.
Earlier in the day, there had been violent clashes in Nørrebro, a small area
of Copenhagen, when a petty right-wing radical, who has been making anti-
Muslim comments for the past few years, decided to throw a protest. He chose
today to carry out an illegal demonstration. This led to violent clashes between
outraged citizens and the district's ethnic minority. The politician believed that
the country was exposed to a Muslim conspiracy that was now attacking the
country from within. The police had to use teargas, sticks, as well as firing
several warning shots to disperse the protesters and the angry mob. They made
a lot of arrests. Although it had been a violent protest, it didn’t received close to
the media attention that the right-wing radical had hoped for, on the contrary,