PAMAS G1 pistol

The PAMAS G1 pistol is the firearm ballistics identified as the weapon used in the January 26, 2007 shooting of three police colleagues. Its later presentation at a press conference turns it into a concrete piece of evidence in the investigation: the link to the shooting is confirmed, but the weapon’s own history remains unknown.

Identification and Physical Description

At the press conference, Terje Ploug displayed a heavy semiautomatic pistol and identified it as a PAMAS G1, a variant of the more widely known Beretta 92. He described it as an automatic, semi-heavy weapon produced for the French Gendarmerie Nationale. Its serial number had been filed off, eliminating a key means of tracing its provenance.

Connection to the 2007 Shooting

Terje Ploug stated that ballistic investigations had confirmed the pistol was used in the shooting of three colleagues on January 26, 2007. The victims were Anker Høyer, who was killed; Hardy Henningsen, who suffered lasting physical damage; and Carl Mørck, who was shot. More than seven years later, Ploug said the police were in possession of the weapon connected to all three crimes. Carl’s reaction to its display registers the continuing weight of the attack for those who survived it.

Investigative Significance and Limits

The ballistic match gives the pistol a decisive evidentiary role in connecting it to the 2007 attack. It does not, however, establish where the weapon came from or who possessed it before the shooting. Terje Ploug explained that several such pistols had disappeared from military arsenals over the years, while the filed-off serial number made this particular weapon’s history impossible to determine. At the same press conference, Lars Bjørn said that separate nail-gun murders in Schiedam, Amager, and Sorø were likely connected; the pistol’s established role concerns the earlier shooting of the three police colleagues, not those nail-gun cases.