Cartoonist targeted in Denmark attacks goes into hiding

COPENHAGEN // Two men suspected of helping the gunman behind deadly attacks in Copenhagen were jailed for 10 days on Monday, accused of helping the attacker to evade capture and get rid of a weapon. At a four-hour custody hearing, prosecutors had asked the judge to place the suspects in four weeks of solitary confinement. Michael Juul Eriksen, defense attorney for one of the suspects, said the men deny the allegations.

The gunman himself, who has been described by authorities as a 22-year-old Dane with a history of violence and gang connections, was killed in a shootout with police early on Sunday. Denmark’s security service said he may have been inspired by last month’s terror attacks in Paris that killed 17 people.

Two people were killed in the attacks, which began on Saturday, including a Danish filmmaker attending a free speech event and a Jewish security guard shot in the head outside a synagogue. Five police officers were wounded in the attacks.

Denmark’s red-and-white flag flew at half-mast from official buildings across the capital on Monday. Mourners placed flowers and candles at the cultural centre where documentary filmmaker Finn Noergaard, 55, was killed and at the synagogue where Dan Uzan, a 37-year-old security guard, was gunned down.

There was also a smaller mound of flowers on the street at the location were the gunman was slain.

Meanhwile, the prime ministers of Denmark and Sweden were expected to join thousands of people at memorials in the Danish capital on Monday evening.

* Associated Press