Police underestimated threat, says cartoonist

17 February 2015, 3:30 pm

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A Swedish cartoonist believed to have been the target of one of the deadly weekend Copenhagen shootings says that Danish police underestimated the terrorist threat since January’s Paris attacks.

“The attacker had good weapons, he had better weapons than the police… There was an escalation since the Charlie Hebdo attacks (in Paris) and the Danes have not caught onto that,” Lars Vilks, who has been forced into hiding, tells AFP.

“They did not step up security on Saturday. It was the same as we had previously… they must consider whether they need to be better armed,” Vilks adds, referring to the cultural center in Copenhagen that was the focus of the first of the twin attacks.

— AFP