One year after a Danish-born gunman killed a filmmaker and a Jewish security guard in twin attacks in Copenhagen, the country will on Sunday honor the victims amid tight security, AFP reports.
On February 14, 2015, Omar El-Hussein, a 22-year-old Dane of Palestinian origin, opened fire with an automatic weapon on a cultural center where Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks - reviled by Islamists for portraying the Prophet Mohammed as a dog in 2007 - was among those attending a conference on "art, blasphemy and freedom". Danish filmmaker Finn Norgaard, 55, was killed and three policemen were wounded. After managing to escape, the assailant shot a 37-year-old Jewish security guard, Dan Uzan, in front of a synagogue, also wounding two police
officers.
El-Hussein, seemingly inspired by the attacks on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, was killed a few hours later in a shootout with police in the immigrant-heavy Norrebro district.