Killer jihadi was inspired by Hebdo: Fanatic shot dead after Copenhagen horror was trying to kill Muhammad cartoonist - weeks after being released from prison for knife attack

The jihadi who killed two people before being gunned down by Danish police yesterday was inspired by the Charlie Hebdo atrocity in Paris.

Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein was shot at a train station in Copenhagen after he opened fire on armed officers in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The 22-year-old fanatic murdered film director Finn Norgaard, 55, while indiscriminately firing an automatic rifle at a free speech debate at a cafe on Saturday afternoon. 

His intended target was thought to have been the controversial Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who has previously depicted the prophet Muhammad as a stray dog. Mr Vilks escaped unscathed.

Some ten hours later the gunman shot Dan Uzan in the head at a synagogue holding a bat mitzvah celebration for 80 people. 

Mr Uzan, 37, an economist at the Danish treasury, had been acting as a volunteer security guard for the event.

Two police officers, who were at the synagogue to provide extra security following the earlier cafe shooting, were shot in the arms and legs. Three others were injured in the earlier attack. All are expected to survive.

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