“He wasn’t someone who could kill people. He stabbed a guy, OK, but it was only in the leg. When we fight, we stab, but always in the leg, not to kill. I’ve stabbed ten or eleven people. I know he didn’t have the money to buy an automatic gun. Here it costs 50,000 kroner (nearly £5,000).”

– “Benny,” an Arab from Copenhagen friendly with terrorist gunman Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein.