COPENHAGEN: Danish security agencies were under scrutiny Tuesday over the weekend shootings that sent jitters through Europe, after intelligence officials acknowledged the suspected gunman had been flagged up as being at risk of radicalisation.

The Danish intelligence agency said the prison service had raised concerns about Omar El-Hussein, a 22-year-old Dane of Palestinian origin with a history of violence, but that there was no evidence he had been planning attacks.

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