OFF THE WIRE
Police are calling the find 'extraordinary' (File photo: Katie Rice)
A routine stop last night by police on Copenhagen's Åboulevard revealed a stash of explosives and weapons.
A kilo and a half of plastic explosives, detonators, three shotguns, three rifles, ammunition and parts of police uniforms were found in a bag in the trunk of the car.
The driver, a 27-year-old, from Brøndby, has a prior record though for not for offenses this serious.
Police say the weapons may have been intended for use by motorcycle gangs, but the man has no known connection with gang activity.
"It's a rather extraordinary find," Claus Vinther from Copenhagen police told Politiken. "He has all the ingredients to make a bomb. It's just a matter of rigging it together."
The car was stopped by police for having a crack in the windshield but after smelling cannabis within the vehicle, they chose to search it.
The man's home in Brøndby has been searched and he is being questioned today but has so far declined to tell police why he was in possession of the illegal material.
According to the police, the amount of explosives found in the car was enough to demolish two cars in a single blast.
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