DANISH CAFÉ SHOOTING CALLED 'TERRORIST ATTACK'

Bullet holes in window of Copenhagen’s Krudttoenden Cafe GLOBAL JIHAD

DANISH CAFÉ SHOOTING CALLED 'TERRORIST ATTACK'

Dozens of shots fired at meeting hosted by man who drew Muhammad

Echoes of Charlie Hebdo rang through Denmark Saturday, as gunmen opened fire on a discussion of Islam and free speech at a Copenhagen café, killing one man and wounding three police officers.

The artist Lars Vilks, under the threat of death ever since publishing images of the Prophet Muhammad in 2007, was at the discussion, leading police on the scene to believe the shooting may have been an assassination attempt.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has further condemned the shooting as “a terrorist attack,” while Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has called it “a cynical act of violence” with all the signs of an assassination attempt and “act of terrorism.”

Dozens of shots were reported fired into the Krudttoenden Cafe in northern Copenhagen during a discussion called “Arts, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression,” according to Vilks’ website.

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Lars Vilks

Neither Vilks nor Francois Zimeray – the French ambassador to Denmark, who was also at the event – are among the injured.

The French government, still reeling from three days of violence in January that left 17 people dead after two Islamist gunmen attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo for publishing images of Muhammad, has been swift to respond.

French President Francois Hollande’s office has announced French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve will go to Copenhagen “as soon as possible.”

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, meanwhile, sent out a tweet: “Freedom attacked in #Copenhagen. Solidarity with the Danes. @BCazeneuve (French interior minister) is going there. France does not yield. #JeSuisCharlie.”

Danish police, meanwhile, have not yet confirmed the shooting was a “terrorist act,” according to the London Telegraph, but they are investigating it as though it may be.

Vilks has received numerous death threats and has lived under Swedish police protection since publishing drawings depicting Muhammad as a dog in 2007. In 2012, an American woman calling herself Jihad Jane was sentenced to 10 years in prison for plotting to kill him.

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