{"id":183687,"date":"2015-02-15T01:05:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T06:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/shots-fired-at-copenhagen-free-speech-event-reports.php"},"modified":"2015-02-15T01:05:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T06:05:25","slug":"shots-fired-at-copenhagen-free-speech-event-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/freedom-of-speech\/shots-fired-at-copenhagen-free-speech-event-reports.php","title":{"rendered":"Shots Fired at Copenhagen Free Speech Event: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Shots rang out Saturday afternoon at a cafe in Copenhagen,    Denmark, killing one person and wounding three police officers    during a freedom of speech event hosted by controversial    Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, police said. As a manhunt    continued for the lone shooter, Danish Prime Minister Helle    Thorning-Schmidt put the entire nation on high alert and    condemned the violence as a \"terrorist attack.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    \"We feel certain now that it was a politically motivated    attack, and thereby it was a terrorist attack,\" she told    reporters close to the site of the shooting. An event organizer    said that Vilks was present at the conference, but was not    injured. Vilks told The Associated Press by phone that he    believes he was the intended target of the attack, asking,    \"what other motive could there be?\"  <\/p>\n<p>    Early Sunday morning three people were also shot outside a    Copenhagen synagogue. One civilian victim later died and two    police officers were wounded, police said. The gunman escaped.    Police have not said that the two shootings are linked. They    are treating both shootings as terror attacks.  <\/p>\n<p>    The suspect in the cafe shooting fled after gunfire erupted    around 4 p.m. local time (10 a.m. ET) at Krudttoenden cafe in    the Osterbro district, Copenhagen police said in a     statement. A surveillance photo shows the suspect wearing    dark clothes and a scarf. Police said initial interviews    indicate only one person fired the shots, and had left the    scene in a dark-colored Volkswagen Polo that had been    carjacked. The car was later found.  <\/p>\n<p>    U.S. National Security Council spokesperson Bernadette Meehan    said the U.S. stands ready to help in the investigation. \"The    United States condemns today's deplorable shooting in    Copenhagen. We offer our condolences to the loved ones of the    deceased victim, and our thoughts are with those wounded in    this attack,\" she said in a statement.  <\/p>\n<p>      Forensic investigators are seen at the site of a shooting in      Copenhagen Feb. 14. A civilian was killed and three police      were wounded on Saturday in a shooting at a meeting in      Copenhagen attended by Lars Vilks, an artist who has received      death threats since publishing images of the Prophet      Mohammad.    <\/p>\n<p>    The TV2 channel said there were some 30 bullet holes in the    window of the cafe and at least two people were taken away on    stretchers. Two of the three police officers injured are    members of Denmark's national security intelligence agency,    PET. Police told NBC News that one person was killed but it was    unclear whether the victim, described as a civilian, died at    the scene.  <\/p>\n<p>    Inna Shevchenko, the leader of Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN,    tweeted that she was participating in a panel discussion at the    cafe when the shooting occurred. \"I didn't see anything. I    heard about 20 shots while speaking and then people started to    run,\" she wrote.  <\/p>\n<p>    Vilks has faced numerous death threats for caricaturing the    Prophet Muhammad in 2007. A Pennsylvania woman last year        got a 10-year prison term for a plot to kill Vilks. In    2010, two brothers tried to burn down his house in southern    Sweden and were imprisoned for attempted arson.  <\/p>\n<p>    The event that the 68-year-old artist was hosting Saturday was    called \"Arts, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression,\" according    to his     website. When the artist is in Denmark, he receives police    protection.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Visit link: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.nbcnews.com\/c\/35002\/f\/663303\/s\/43658924\/sc\/8\/l\/0L0Snbcnews0N0Cnews0Cworld0Cshots0Efired0Ecopenhagen0Ecafe0Efree0Espeech0Eevent0Ereports0En30A6316\/story01.htm\/RK=0\/RS=cbhqjnUY.S1khVoIMxeOp5PL9v4-\" title=\"Shots Fired at Copenhagen Free Speech Event: Reports\">Shots Fired at Copenhagen Free Speech Event: Reports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Shots rang out Saturday afternoon at a cafe in Copenhagen, Denmark, killing one person and wounding three police officers during a freedom of speech event hosted by controversial Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, police said. As a manhunt continued for the lone shooter, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt put the entire nation on high alert and condemned the violence as a \"terrorist attack.\" \"We feel certain now that it was a politically motivated attack, and thereby it was a terrorist attack,\" she told reporters close to the site of the shooting. An event organizer said that Vilks was present at the conference, but was not injured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/freedom-of-speech\/shots-fired-at-copenhagen-free-speech-event-reports.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[388391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-of-speech"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}