Windows at the Immigration Service were smashed and a total of nine vehicles in several different districts were torched during the night in Copenhagen.

The first indication of vandalism came just after midnight when eight windows at the Immigration Service on Ryesgade in Østerbro were smashed, and red paint was lobbed at the building.

A couple of hours later police received reports of burning vehicles – two of which are owned by the DONG Energy company. A total of nine vehicles were torched across the city, according to Police Spokesman Henrik Suhr, who adds that in some cases it is possible that one vehicle was torched but fire spread to other vehicles.