Historic 400-year-old Copenhagen Stock Exchange building burns down

Dozens of police officers have canvassed the city center and cordoned off areas around the 400-year-old building next to Parliament.

Firefighters have also conducted “large-scale” deployments. “We are in the process of deployment,” Danish emergency services indicated in statements to the newspaper ‘Jyllands-Posten’ before saying. main tasks will be The “rescue and extinction” ones.

Historic buildings that do not currently house a stock exchange, but It is the headquarters of the Danish Chamber of Commerce.It was under construction at the time of the incident.

“It is a terrible fact, the stock market is on fire,” the chamber wrote in a message on social networks.

Pedestrians have been asked not to proceed towards this area. for now No victims have been reported And the reasons are investigated.

«Horrible pictures of the stock market this morning. Denmark’s 400-year cultural heritage is in flames,” the culture minister lamented in a message on his X profile.

Jakob Engel-Schmidt also assessed passers-by or building staff are cooperating to save internal elements.

“How inspiring it is to experience how stock exchange employees, good people from the emergency services and the residents of Copenhagen cooperate to save artistic treasures and iconic images from a burning building.”