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Two Greeks arrested after making joke of “bomb in suitcase” at Copenhagen Airport

There is always a Greek somewhere in the world… Most of these Greeks we are proud of become famous due to extraordinary achievements in science and culture. But there are also these “other Greeks”, the “jokesters” who think the whole world is a joke and that making fun is the A and O of the Greek Plaka* Way. Now two of the Joker-Greeks are threatened with imprisonment for inciting fear after they made a joke that there was a bomb in the airport of Copenhagen, Denmark, last Wednesday. The airport was evacuated, flights were cancelled, public transport to the airport was halted and the two merry-go-round Greeks were arrested and thrown into jail. The incident came just hours after Danish police had raised the country’s threat level by one notch to the second-highest level because of the Paris attacks on previous Friday.

Copenhagen Airport bomb ‘jokesters’ jailed

The two Greek men behind Wednesday’s evacuation of a Copenhagen Airport terminal face charges of inciting fear and may also be hit with charges related to flight delays.

Two men who created a temporary panic at the Copenhagen Airport on Wednesday will be held in police custody for an additional 13 days, a Danish court ruled on Thursday.

The two men, both Greek nationals, told police that they were just kidding when one of them said that his suitcase contained a bomb.

“It appears that they thought they were a pair of comedians. It’s not certain that they think it is funny anymore after having slept in Vestre Fængsel [prison] last night,” Copenhagen Police spokesman Jakob Søndergaard told Ritzau news agency on Thursday.

The men, aged 33 and 65, are being charged with violating Article 266 of the Danish Penal Code, which deals with the incitement of fear through the threat of carrying out an illegal action.

Police said that the men could also face additional charges for causing delays at the airport on Wednesday. According to an airport spokesman, at least 14 flights were affected by the men’s actions.

According to police, the two men were checking in with one other individual when one of them set his suitcase on the luggage belt and said that it contained a bomb. A female airport employee told the men that it wasn’t appropriate to joke about such a thing, particularly in light of the terror attacks in Paris last week that left at least 129 people dead.

The worker then set off an alarm when the men attempted to keep the so-called joke going by saying that one of them was a wanted terrorist from the Paris attacks and then saying the word ‘Salaam’, Arabic for ‘peace’.

The evacuation lasted over two hours and halted public transport to the airport. The incident came just hours after Danish police raised the country’s threat level by one notch to the second-highest level after the Paris attacks” (full story TheLocal.dk)

The two Greeks were not even teenagers so that one could blame the careless age for the tasteless ‘joke’.

* κάνω πλάκα = playing tricks, making pranks, just kidding

As Albert Einstein said: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

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