ARSON ATTACK ON LARS VILKS

Arson attack on Lars Vilks
Last night attackers tried to burn Muhammad cartoonist’s house down
COPENHAGEN May 15 2010
By Uwe Max Jensen, Sappho.dk
During the night of May 15 unknown perpetrators smashed a window in Lars Vilks’ house in Scania, Sweden, poured gasoline into the bouilding and proceeded to set fire to it.

By coincidence the artist spent the night with his girlfriend and escaped with his life.

After being alerted by the Swedish police, Vilks has returned to his house, where Sappho.dk contacted him at noon today.

“The place is swarming with police and I can talk no further right now,” Vilks told Sappho’s reporter. In the background one can hear policemen talking to each other.

Sappho is following the case and will soon have a man on the spot in Scania.

Lars Vilks’ blog is up and running again after being hacked following Islamicist attacks on him at Uppsala University last Tuesday.

In a comment to this latest attempt on Vilks’ life, the President of the Free Press Society Lars Hedegaard expresses his astonishment.

“How was possible for these murderers to gain access to Vilks’ house only a few days after a mob assaulted him at Uppsala University? What are the Swedish police and political class up to? As far as I know not a single Swedish politician has had a word to say about the attack in Uppsala. Is the truth that Swedish power-holders prefer to see Vilks killed in order to send a message to other critics of the Swedish multicultural idyll?”

“Now is the time to demonstrate practical solidarity. We can all do that by purchasing the drawing his would-be murderers are so angry about,” says Lars Hedegaard.

*****  UPDATE  *****

In Swedish, google translate makes some sense of it:

From The Montreal Gazette:

UPDATE from The Local.se

Arson attack on Muhammad artist’s home

Published: 15 May 10 17:39 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/26662/20100515/

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Police have launched an investigation into arson after the home in southern Sweden of controversial artist Lars Vilks sustained fire damage on Friday night.

Vilks was not at his home in Nyhamnsläge at the time of the attack. An acquaintance of the artist discovered the damage on Saturday morning. Windows had been smashed, there was minor fire damage to the front of the house and plastic bottles filled with petrol were found inside the property, local newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad reports.

Police said the house was empty and the fire had dissipated of its own accord. A forensic examination was carried out on Saturday morning.

“We’ve launched a preliminary investigation into arson,” police spokeswoman Sofie Österheim told news agency TT.

The embattled artist, who was physically attacked at a lecture theatre in Uppsala earlier in the week, said he was now considering moving from his home.

“I don’t think I can live here full time. It’s obvious this is a high risk area. I guess I’ll just be here at certain times,” Vilks told TT.

The artist left the house at 10.30pm on Friday and was not aware of the damage until the morning.

“It wasn’t all that bad from a purely material perspective. They’ve broken window panes and set fire to a curtain by sticking a hand through a window,” said Vilks.

“It’s not so pleasant but I’ve become hardened. I get threats all the time but it’s hard to assess what’s behind it.”

In this case, Vilks believed the perpetrators were amateurs.

“These are the kind of people who drive off with some petrol and try to start a fire. But one thing can lead to another.”

Vilks has had a $100,000 bounty on his head from an Al-Qaeda-linked group since the publication of his drawing of the Muslim prophet Muhammad as a dog in 2007.

TT/The Local (ne**@th******.se/08 656 6518)

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One Reply to “ARSON ATTACK ON LARS VILKS”

  1. If anybody should have a carry permit, it’s Lars Vilks. That’s ridiculous, of course, but in a just world, he would have two handguns strapped to his body and the full backing of the police, along with training on how to use them. In this world, however, with the ruling left wing politicians willing to do anything to secure the Muslim vote, I fear he will be left twisting in the wind with a big target on his back, just like Geert Wilders in the Netherlands. The very fact that the police didn’t have Vilks’ house staked out suggests very strongly that they wanted him dead, right? I would not be surprised if the police supplied the arsonists with the address, although they wouldn’t need to ’cause that charming police secretary with the lovely headscarf copped that a long time ago. And they keep winning and winning and winning…