A 40-year-old man is on Saturday night has been cut in the throat with a knife on Strøget in Copenhagen. The victim is not in danger, and a designated perpetrator is arrested.

It informs the central efterforskningsleder Søren Lauritsen.

"A man is cut in the neck. He is beyond death, but is receiving treatment at the national hospital. We have arrested another man whom we suspect of it here, and we are about to find out his identity," he says, shortly before the bell 21.

It was on the ground, which alerted the police about the stabbing around at 20. A short time later, the alleged perpetrator was arrested at the town hall square, after several witnesses to the stabbing had followed after him.

Persons who witnessed the stabbing, according to vagtchef Leif Hansen of the Copenhagen Police told that there was only a perpetrator and a chief.

"the Witnesses follows from the perpetrator, and it does that we (the police, the red.) can come directly to him. The sharp citizen was via phone contact with our control center and directs us forward to the offender."

"We'll get him in fact, when he throw the knife in a trashcan at Burger King," says vagtchef Leif Hansen.

He points out that it is an isolated incident between two people who know each Trbet other, but that the arrested Saturday night not have wanted to tell more to the police.

the Police is because of the episode to present Saturday night at Vimmelskaftet out for the number 22.

/ritzau/