COPENHAGEN :Somali man charged in attack on Danish cartoonist

The Somali man at the centre of the attempted murder of a Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard who was behind caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. has denied the charges.
The young Danish-Somali held by police for the attempted killing of Kurt Westergaard, along with a local police officer, appeared in Arhus on a remand hearing—carried on a stretcher—and denied all of the charges against him.
Prosecutors say the 29-year-old man, who cannot be named under a court order, broke into Mr Westergaard's home carrying an axe, but the man admitted that he broke into house with an illegal weapon when he appeared before the judge on wednesday. The house is in Aarhus, Denmark's second largest city, 125 miles northwest of Copenhagen
Westergaard, who has been the target of several death threats since depicting the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban, has been under round-the-clock protection by Danish police since February 2008.


TheAfricanvoices Team
Nairobi