By Harriet Alexander
6:15PM GMT 14 Feb 2015
One dead in shooting at a Copenhagen cultural centre, where a meeting about freedom of speech was being held - organised by a Swedish artist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad. Latest here
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• 40-yr-old Danish man killed in shooting at cultural centre
• Three policemen reported injured
• French ambassador to Denmark inside but unharmed
• Meeting about freedom of speech was being held at the time
• Gathering organised by controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks
• Lars Vilks caricatured Prophet Muhammad in 2007
18.23 More from David Chazan in Paris.
The French prime minister, Manuel Valls, tweeted: "Freedom attacked in #Copenhagen. Solidarity with the Danes. @BCazeneuve (French interior minister) is going there. France does not yield. #JeSuisCharlie
18.15 DANISH POLICE SAY THEY DO NOT KNOW IF COPENHAGEN SHOOTING INCIDENT WAS A "TERRORIST ACT" BUT ARE INVESTIGATING IT AS ONE
17.50 Two suspected assailants escaped by vehicle after Copenhagen attack: police
17.44 More from Inna Shevchenko:
17.35 Among those inside was Inna Shevchenko, an activist with feminist group Femen.
She said they are all now at a police station.
17.31 The victim was a 40-year-old Danish man, police have said.
17.30 Copenhagen police confirmed to the Berlingske newspaper that the suspects wore black and spoke Danish.
The meeting was held under tight security, with delegates subject to searches as they entered the building.
17.27
17.22 Some reports suggest that the getaway car - the VW Polo - has been found abandoned, not far from the cultural centre.
17.13 ONE CIVILIAN DEAD AFTER SHOOTING INCIDENT IN COPENHAGEN - POLICE
17.12 These are the latest images from the cultural centre, showing how the attackers attempted to storm their way in.
17.01 More from Paris.
David Chazan reports that the French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, will go to Copenhagen "as soon as possible," the office of President Hollande announced.
The French foreign minister has condemned what he said was "a terrorist attack".
16.55 The debate resumed after the shooting, according to one of the organisers.
Helle Merete Brix told TV2 News:
QuotePeople actually reacted very calmly, and the meeting continued. We could not get away, so we continued our discussion.
She said that she and the Swedish cartoonist hid in the cold store of the cultural centre.
QuoteI was in a cold room and kept hold of Lars Vilks' hand. He was very cool.
We stood and told each other bad jokes.
His bodyguards did a tremendous job.
It is a dramatic and unpleasant reminder of what we are up against in these times.
16.49 The French ambassador, Francois Zimeray, has given a dramatic account of the attack to AFP news agency.
QuoteThey fired on us from the outside. It was the same intention as (the January 7 attack on) Charlie Hebdo except they didn't manage to get in.
Intuitively I would say there were at least 50 gunshots, and the police here are saying 200.
Bullets went through the doors and everyone threw themselves to the floor. We managed to flee the room, and now we're staying inside because it's still dangerous.
The attackers haven't been caught and they could very well still be in the neighbourhood.
16.46 This is the latest image from the scene.
Copenhagen shooting
16.42 Danish police are searching for a VW Polo, registration number AT 25 919.
This tweet, from a local journalist, reads: "WANTED IN COPENHAGEN : Police are looking for a VW Polo with registration AT 25 919 after shots fired on Osterbro".
Osterbro is a district in central Copenhagen.
16.36 Helle Merete Brix, one of the organizers of the event, told The Associated Press that Vilks was present at the event but not injured.
QuoteI saw a masked man running past. A couple of police officers were injured.
I clearly consider this as an attack on Lars Vilks.
16.34 Lars Vilks, the Swedish artist, has described himself as "a constant target".
16.32 A reminder that the French ambassador to Denmark was attending the discussion.
From Paris, our correspondent David Chazan reports:
Three Danish policemen have been wounded by shots fired at the cultural centre where a blasphemy debate was being held, the French TV news channel BFM reported
16.25 Mr Vilks spoke to The Wall Street Journal about the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and said that he refused to hide away in fear.
QuotePolice protection doesn’t offer a 100% guarantee as we saw with Charlie Hebdo but it goes pretty far. I don’t have to lie awake at night listening for odd sounds.
He has to plan outings in advance because he “can’t go anywhere without a police escort,” he said.
QuoteIt’s tricky for me to be spontaneous.
Mr Vilks said he agrees that ridiculing religion in itself doesn’t have a value—“you need to have a point.” But he rejects the idea that artists and satirists should tread more carefully in their criticism of Islam.
QuoteAlmost the entire Muslim world is subject to a theological rule that has a strange outcome when it comes to human rights. You can’t ignore that.
Then you’re talking tactics, how should one go about to change that.
Some say, you should be very careful, but that’s just postponing the problem. Sooner or later you have to explain what you’re criticising.
16.23 The event featured Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who in 2007 drew an image of the Prophet as a dog on a traffic circle.
As a result, Al Qaeda in Iraq placed a $150,000 bounty on his head, and protests broke out across the Middle East _________________ --
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
Governments from around the world admit they’ve used the bully’s trick … attack first, and then blame the victim:
The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister
The Turkish Prime Minister admitted that the Turkish government carried out the 1955 bombing on a Turkish consulate in Greece – also damaging the nearby birthplace of the founder of modern Turkey – and blamed it on Greece, for the purpose of inciting and justifying anti-Greek violence
The British Prime Minister admitted to his defense secretary that he and American president Dwight Eisenhower approved a plan in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and blame it on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime change
The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see this)(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred). And watch this BBC special
As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in the 1960′s, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
2 years before, American Senator George Smathers had suggested that the U.S. make “a false attack made on Guantanamo Bay which would give us the excuse of actually fomenting a fight which would then give us the excuse to go in and [overthrow Castro]“.
And Official State Department documents show that – only nine months before the Joint Chiefs of Staff plan was proposed – the head of the Joint Chiefs and other high-level officials discussed blowing up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in order to justify an invasion of that country. The 3 plans were not carried out, but they were all discussed as serious proposals
The NSA admits that it lied about what really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 … manipulating data to make it look like North Vietnamese boats fired on a U.S. ship so as to create a false justification for the Vietnam war
A U.S. Congressional committee admitted that – as part of its “Cointelpro” campaign – the FBI had used many provocateurs in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and falsely blame them on political activists
A top Turkish general admitted that Turkish forces burned down a mosque on Cyprus in the 1970s and blamed it on their enemy. He explained: “In Special War, certain acts of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy to increase public resistance. We did this on Cyprus; we even burnt down a mosque.” In response to the surprised correspondent’s incredulous look the general said, “I am giving an example”
The German government admitted (and see this) that, in 1978, the German secret service detonated a bomb in the outer wall of a prison and planted “escape tools” on a prisoner – a member of the Red Army Faction – which the secret service wished to frame the bombing on _________________ www.lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org www.rethink911.org www.patriotsquestion911.com www.actorsandartistsfor911truth.org www.mediafor911truth.org www.pilotsfor911truth.org www.mp911truth.org www.ae911truth.org www.rl911truth.org www.stj911.org www.v911t.org www.thisweek.org.uk www.abolishwar.org.uk www.elementary.org.uk www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/2149 http://utangente.free.fr/2003/media2003.pdf
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