One man was killed and three police officers were wounded today aftergunmen stormed a building in Copenhagen, Denmark, where controversial Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks and his supporters had gathered, police and witnesses said.
Vilks is said to be okay. Helle Merete Brix, the founder of the Lars Vilks Committee, told CNN that she and Vilks ended up in a storage room holding hands. The committee was created to support Vilks after his 2007 cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed angered many in the Muslim world.
The attack comes just over a month after the massacre at the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had come under fire for publishing cartoons of Mohammed.
Today's attack was immediately condemned as a terrorist attack by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
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Vilks is said to be okay. Helle Merete Brix, the founder of the Lars Vilks Committee, told CNN that she and Vilks ended up in a storage room holding hands. The committee was created to support Vilks after his 2007 cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed angered many in the Muslim world.
The attack comes just over a month after the massacre at the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had come under fire for publishing cartoons of Mohammed.
Today's attack was immediately condemned as a terrorist attack by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
Get complete coverage of breaking news on CNN TV, CNN.com and CNN Mobile.
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