{UAH} MARTYRS OR MASS MUDERERS: DANISH ANGER: ATTENTION HANNAH OGWAPITTI

Denmark

Anger over 'martyrs' exhibition for Brussels and Paris bombers

Exhibit will include works on Ibrahim and Khalid El-Bakraoui, Brussels
suicide bombers, and Foued Mohamed-Aggad, one of the Bataclan
attackers
Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui have been identified by Belgian police
as the Brussels suicide bombers.

A Copenhagen art exhibit planning to portray two of the Brussels
suicide bombers and one of the Paris Bataclan attackers as "martyrs"
has been reported to police for encouraging terrorism.


In an exhibit partly inspired by Tehran's Martyrs' Museum, a Danish
group of artists plans to include brothers Ibrahim and Khalid
el-Bakraoui, who detonated bombs in the deadly Brussels attacks on 22
March, and Foued Mohamed-Aggad, who blew himself up at Paris music
venue Bataclan on 14 November.

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The installation will have the look of a museum, using images of the
"martyrs", replicas of their belongings and plaques to explain who
they are.

The suicide bombers will be featured alongside historical figures
considered to have died for their cause, such as French heroine Joan
of Arc and Greek philosopher Socrates, said Ida Grarup Nielsen of
artist collective The Other Eye of The Tiger.

"A guide will talk about Foued Mohamed-Aggad and the events at the
Bataclan, during which the room will also be (filled) with sound and
light," said.

The story would be told "more from his point of view," she said.

The el-Bakraoui brothers would not be included in the guided tour but
photos of them and replicas of their belongings would be put on
display, including a black leather glove believed to have been worn by
Ibrahim el-Bakraoui to conceal a bomb detonator.

The exhibit is scheduled to go on display from 26 May until 10 June in
a former abattoir in Copenhagen's trendy Meatpacking District.

The venue is home to a theatre group whose artistic leader, Christian
Lollike, courted controversy in 2012 by staging a play based on the
manifesto of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.

"Our exhibit is really about describing the term 'martyr' from as many
different angles as possible and through history," Nielsen said.

Everyone is "the hero of (their) own story," she added.


Danish gunman Omar El-Hussein, who killed two people in twin attacks
in Copenhagen in February last year, would not be part of the exhibit
since it was unclear whether he had been willing to die for his
beliefs, she said.

The 22-year-old was killed in a shootout with police hours after
killing a security guard outside the city's main synagogue.

A local member of the ruling Venstre party, Diego Gugliotta, on Monday
reported the event and its organisers to police for "encouraging
terror".

Portraying international terrorists as heroes could push some people
to "take the last step and join a terror organisation," he wrote on
Facebook

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