A manhunt was underway, on the morning of Sunday, February 15, to find the perpetrator or perpetrators of the attacks that left two dead and five wounded.
Sunday morning The police said it had opened fire near the Noerrebro station, killing one. His identity is unknown.
- Where were the attacks?
The first shooting took place at the cultural center in Østerbro Krudttønden at north of the historic city center of Copenhagen. It held a conference on “Art, blasphemy and freedom of expression”, in homage to Charlie Hebdo .
A few hours later, the center-synagogue city was under fire. A man hit by several bullets in the head died on Sunday. Two policemen were also wounded by gunfire. The alleged gunman fled on foot. No other element in this case has been published
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For now, the Danish police said it was too early to link both cases.
- Who was present during the attack of the cultural center?
Dozens of people were in the room at the time of the shooting, said Inna Shevchenko, the leader of Femen, Twitter. She spoke to evoke freedom of expression when she heard “about 20 shots.” “And people began to run. “
The Ambassador of France, François Zimeray, was present at the rally as” keynote speaker “(” keynote speaker “) according to the Quai d’Orsay. Lars Vilks, a Swedish artist already threatened to have caricatured Muhammad, also attended the meeting.
- How did the shooting?
Many first shots, as can be heard on the audio recording of the BBC were heard at 15 h 30. A shooter, hidden, has introduced into the inlet of the cultural center where the meeting was held. Unable to enter the room itself, where access was filtered through a metal detector, he started firing shots, and these police immediately responded. The man ran away.
“They shot at us from the outside. It was the same for Charlie Hebdo, except that they were not able to enter “, told the French ambassador, who quickly tweeted from inside the room it was “alive.”
- Y-has there been casualties?
A man in his forties was killed outside the building. Three police officers who provided security for the building have meanwhile been injured groin respectively, leg, and shoulder. Two of them were bodyguards of the intelligence service of the Danish Police (PET) which protected Lars Vilks, a Swedish artist.
Police confirmed that their days are not in danger .
The attack has not been claimed but, according to police quoted by the Danish press is Lars Vilks who could be the target of the shooting. Helle Merete Brix, one of the organizers of the debate, said she “considered that it was clearly an attack on Lars Vilks’ .
in 2007 had drawn cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog that had earned her living under police protection since. The Iraqi branch of al-Qaida, in particular, was threatened with death.
Evacuated in the cold room at the first shots, Lars Vilks was unhurt in the attack.
Read also: Who is Lars Vilks supposed target of the attack in Copenhagen
- Who is the author of the attack
After searching for two men for several hours, PET, Danish intelligence agencies now believe that the assailant acted alone.
The vehicle he would have used to escape was found without its occupant, in the neighborhood of the attack.
“A man of 25-30 years, about 1.85 m, athletic build and Arabic appearance, but with a lighter skin than normal and with straight black hair “ is sought, in the words of police official statement, which then issued a photograph of the suspect, taken from a CCTV camera who recorded 20 minutes before the shooting.
- Is it an attack?
The attack was not claimed, but the former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt says that it is an attack.
“Everything indicates that the attack on the firearm was a Østerbro attempted political assassination, and therefore an act of terrorism. “
The French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius also condemned ” with the greatest firmness “ the ” terrorist attack “.
- Is there a link to the Mohammed cartoons of the “Jyllands-Posten” and “Charlie Hebdo”?
On 30 September 2005 the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten was published twelve cartoons of Mohammed to raise the issue of self-censorship among Danish cartoonists. This publication marked the beginning of a crisis that peaked in early 2006, with protests in several Muslim countries.
Kurt Westergaard, the author of the caricature of Mohammed with a turban shaped bomb, which was the subject of several assassination attempts, lives under permanent police protection. This is in solidarity with the Danes several newspapers, including Charlie Hebdo , had in turn published the Mohammed cartoons in the following months.
The drawing that earned Lars Vilks death threats he had been released in 2007.
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