Denmark shooter may have been inspired by Paris attacks — police

Police in Denmark say two attacks in Copenhagen Saturday night may have been inspired by a series of Islamist attacks in Paris a month earlier, AFP reports.

A gunman shot and killed a Danish filmmaker at a free-speech event honoring an artist who has drawn the Prophet Mohammad, before turning his gun on a synagogue in the Danish capital. Two people were killed in the attacks.

The man, who was killed in a shootout with police earlier Sunday, “may have been inspired by the events that took place in Paris a few weeks ago,” Jens Madsen from the Security and Intelligence Service tells reporters.

The gunman has not been identified.

In Paris last month, two brothers shot and killed 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Two days later, a third gunman killed four Jewish men at a kosher supermarket in the capital.