Three police officers were wounded in a shooting incident Saturday at a Copenhagen, Denmark, event organized by supporters of Lars Vilks — the Swedish cartoonist whose portrayals of the Prophet Mohammed angered many in the Muslim world — Danish media reported.
French diplomat Francois Zimeray, who was at the event, tweeted that he is “still alive in the room,” though the status of others, including Vilks and the attackers, was not immediately known.
The attack occurred just over a month after the massacre at the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had come under fire for its publishing cartoons of Mohammed. Depictions of Mohammed are considered offensive by many Muslims.
Vilks was a target before Charlie Hebdo for his 2007 cartoon of Mohammed with the body of a dog — an animal that conservative Muslims consider unclean.
In a CNN interview later that year from his home in rural Sweden, Vilks said the drawing was a calculated move meant to elicit a rection.
“It should be possible to insult all religions in a democratic way,” he said then. “If you insult one (religion), then you should insult the other ones.”