Danish police suspect a free human hunt in a death threat case

The Danish police interrogated and released two suspects traveling in a Swedish car that had been the subject of a large manhunt on Friday.

The two men were arrested after being seen acting to suggest an imminent attack, police said.

This comes amidst a continuing investigation into death threats, police said local police said.

The authorities briefly closed the transport links to and from the largest Danish island of Denmark in their search.

Chief police inspector Jorgen Bergen Skov told reporters that the police were responding to a "worst case scenario".

"The Volvo was located nearby, and its close behavior of people at risk … indicated that an attack was about to happen," he said.

Police now say that people in the Volvo are linked to criminal activities but are not linked to the specific death threats being investigated, the Politiken newspaper reported.

Chief Inspector Skov said two separate investigations were under way, adding that there was no threat to the general public.

The black Volvo had been rented in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, and then stolen at Malmo Airport, located in Sweden, across the Oresund Strait and from the Danish capital, Copenhagen.

Danish Justice Minister Soren Poulsen thanked the police for the way she conducted Friday's search, Politiken reported.