Army chief: Defence weapon used to murder

It has emerged that mordvåbnet in a case relating to the killing of 47-year-old man, was one of the Defence guns.

This confirms a major general and commander of the Army, Kenneth Pedersen to DR.

- We know that it is one of our weapons of the mark Neuhausen. How it ended up in the hands of the soldier, I do not know simply do not. The weapon is located in a våbenkammer, when they are not being used to it, they will be used for, he says.

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He points out, however, that even with a rigid security procedure, there is a need for trusted persons, who have the responsibility for the keys and the codes for the different våbenrum.

As one of the weapons appears as a murder weapon in a drabssag, has now been put a police and auditørundersøgelse in time. It must assess whether there has been error in the Defence and handling of the weapon.

- It is deeply tragic that this happened, and we must see whether we can do something to tighten security. Of course you can't make a 100 percent secure system, but we shall see how far we can get. And that we will take starting point in the investigation, which is ongoing, says generalmajoren.

the Matter began to roll in the morning, when the police got a notification that a 47-year-old man had been shot. Later on Friday afternoon was a 42-year-old charged with the killing.

He refuses the guilty in the killing, but claims to be guilty of violence resulting in death. According to police the motive for the murder to be jealousy.