Police on Wednesday arrested five people suspected of planning to attack the Danish newspaper that outraged Muslims in 2005 with blasphemy. Denmark's PET security police said the suspects had planned to enter a Copenhagen office block housing several newspapers including offices of the daily Jyllands-Posten to "kill as many as possible of those around".
"On the basis of the investigation, it is the PET's assessment that the detainees were preparing a terror attack against a newspaper, which according to the PET's information was Jyllands-Posten," it said. "It is likewise the PET's view that the attack was due to be carried out in the coming days."
Jyllands-Posten was the newspaper that first published the blasphemous cartoons, provoking protests against Danish and European interests in the Middle East, Africa and Asia in which at least 50 people died. The Danish justice minister said those detained had a "militant Islamic background" and called the plan the most serious such attempt in Denmark so far.