AP Interview: Danish cartoonist says attacker was a lone madman
By APMonday, January 4, 2010
Danish cartoonist says attacker was a lone madman
COPENHAGEN — The Danish artist whose controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad enraged Muslims says police cannot protect him from attackers who act spontaneously.
Kurt Westergaard tells The Associated Press he believes he is being targeted by Muslim extremists because he stands by his cartoon and insists he has “not done anything wrong.”
The 74-year-old artist says he was shocked by Friday’s attack during which a Somali man broke into his home armed with an ax.
Westergaard said Monday police cannot protect him 100 percent from “the terrorist type” who acts spontaneously and is “not part of a conspiracy.”
Police shot the Somali man in the hand and knee, and he was later charged with attempted murder.
The man cannot be identified due to a Danish court ban.
