The artist Lars Vilks (75) and two police officers died in a traffic accident
Lars Vilks died in a traffic accident in Sweden on Sunday. Here he is pictured in connection with a portrait interview with A-magazine in 2016. Photo: Tom Kolstad
The controversial artist Lars Vilks and two police officers from the Swedish police’s personal protection group died in a traffic accident on Sunday.
Vilks is known for, among other things, that in 2007 he drew the Prophet Muhammad as a dog in 2007. Since then, he has lived under strict police protection. Al-Qaeda responded by promising a $ 100,000 reward to the person who killed Vilks.
Collided with truck
Sunday.
– It is with horror and great sorrow that I receive the message that our two colleagues and person we protected, died this afternoon,
sier National Police Chief Anders Thornberg. The accident happened at Markaryd, which is a town in Kronoberg County in Småland.
It is unclear how the accident happened . The driver of the truck has been transported to hospital and is being treated there.
several times 7 75 years old Vilks has lived with police protection since he drew the Prophet Muhammad as a dog in 2007, two years after the so-called caricature controversy.
In connection with the collision, both vehicles started to burn heavily. It is still unclear how the accident happened, but there is currently no indication that anyone else is involved. Several times Vilks has been subjected to attempted murder and death threats.
(2010 In 2010, his house was set on fire and two brothers were convicted of the crime. That same year, a man blew himself up in central Stockholm after inciting the murder of Vilks. In 2010 he was assaulted while giving a lecture at Uppsala University. Vilks was not seriously injured. Later that year, seven people were arrested in Ireland for plotting an assassination attempt on the artist. In 2011, three men arrested in Gothenburg, and later charged with plotting to kill Vilks. They were acquitted. Bm In February 2015, Vilks was subjected to a terrorist attack in Copenhagen, when he was participating in a debate meeting about art, blasphemy and freedom of speech. Vilks was unharmed from the attack, but the Danish documentary filmmaker Finn Nørgaard was shot and killed, and three policemen were injured. In March 2015, he received the Danish Press Freedom Society’s Sapphop Prize for his work for freedom of expression.
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