Copenhagen police said Sunday they believe a man shot dead by officers was the sole perpetrator of two fatal attacks in the Danish capital.
Police said video surveillance indicated the man was behind an attack at a panel discussion about Islam and free speech in which one man died on Saturday and the shooting of another man outside Copenhagen's main synagogue early Sunday.
"We believe the same man was behind both shootings and we also believe that the perpetrator who was shot by the police action force at Noerrebro station is the person behind the two attacks," Torben Moelgaard Jensen told a press conference.
Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist whose controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed sparked worldwide protests in 2007, had been among the speakers at the Krudttoenden cultural centre when a man opened fire.
A 55-year-old man was killed when the gunman sprayed bullets at the cultural centre, while a young Jewish man was gunned down outside the synagogue.
Copenhagen police said Sunday they believe a man shot dead by officers was the sole perpetrator of two fatal attacks in the Danish capital.
Police said video surveillance indicated the man was behind an attack at a panel discussion about Islam and free speech in which one man died on Saturday and the shooting of another man outside Copenhagen’s main synagogue early Sunday.
“We believe the same man was behind both shootings and we also believe that the perpetrator who was shot by the police action force at Noerrebro station is the person behind the two attacks,” Torben Moelgaard Jensen told a press conference.
Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist whose controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed sparked worldwide protests in 2007, had been among the speakers at the Krudttoenden cultural centre when a man opened fire.
A 55-year-old man was killed when the gunman sprayed bullets at the cultural centre, while a young Jewish man was gunned down outside the synagogue.
