The younger of the two defendants, who was 16 years old at the time of the incident, denies any terrorist offenses.
He is wearing a white shirt, tucked into a pair of suit trousers with a black belt, and is looking down at the table as the prosecutor reads out the indictment in Copenhagen's district court.
"My client denies terrorist crimes and attempted terrorist crimes, but he admits to possessing five hand grenades and throwing two of them," says his defense lawyer Jakob Buch-Jepsen.
Not bad luck
According to him, the goal was not to hit the Israeli embassy. It was a house nearby that was also hit by the hand grenades.
It was not bad luck that it was that building that was hit, says Buch-Jepsen.
The elderly Swede defendant is wearing a black hoodie and a black down vest. He looks straight ahead in the courtroom, towards the prosecutor, as his defense attorney Kåre Pihlmann takes the floor.
"I'll keep it brief. My client denies the accusation," says Pihlmann.
The two Swedes, who are now 18 and 21 years old, are suspected of throwing hand grenades that exploded at a residential building near the embassy in October 2024.
Connection to Iran
The younger of them is also accused of shooting at a window at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm the day before the attack in Copenhagen, an incident that will be dealt with in a separate trial in Sweden.
SVT's "Upppdrag granskning" has revealed that the attack on the Israeli embassies was carried out by the Foxtrot network on behalf of Iran. Prosecutor Søren Harbo does not want to comment before the trial who allegedly ordered the attack.
He believes the penalty is very high.
"Two hand grenades explode on a terrace belonging to a family with children and the family was at home. That alone makes this completely insane," says the prosecutor.
