Sunday, February 15, 2015

Muslim 'lone-wolf' fatally shoots at a free speech meeting in a café and a synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark


Early today, two shootings within hours of each other left two people dead and five wounded. A gunman stormed a cafe where Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks and his supporters had gathered for a free speech forum, killing a 40-year-old man and wounding three police officers before fleeing, police said.

Helle Merete Brix, founder of the Lars Vilks Committee, created two years ago in support of the Swedish cartoonist whose portrayals of the Prophet Mohammed angered many in the Muslim world said that security personnel on site moved her and others to safe areas after shots rang out.

In the later incident, shots were fired at a synagogue when a person approached and shot dead a security officer who had been placed there after the first incident.

Police later reported killing a 'person of interest' in a shootout near the Nørrebro train station; it turned out the same person was responsible for both attacks. Two police officers were wounded -- one in an arm, the other in a leg, police said. Their injuries weren't life-threatening.

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