The designer vehicle, which was accompanied by two police officers assigned to his protection, hit a truck circulating in the opposite direction. Swedish police spread the hypothesis of a malicious act.
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Swedish Artist Lars Vilks, who lived under protection after drawing the Prophet Muhammad with a dog’s body in 2007, found death in a road accident in Sweden, Sunday, October 3rd.
The Swedish police confirmed at the France-Press agency (AFP) the death of the 75-year-old designer, and the two police officers to protect him, in a violent accident that occurred in the south of the country. She dismissed the hypothesis of a malicious act.
“This is the subject of an investigation as any accident from the road. As two policemen are involved, an investigation has also been entrusted to a particular parquet section,” said a spokesman for The local police. Asked on any items suggesting a track other than accidental, the latter replied that no: “The investigation would be oriented differently if it had been the case”.
The accident occurred Sunday afternoon on the E4 motorway, near the municipality of Markaryd when the car hit a truck circulating in the opposite direction. The two vehicles then caught fire “as a result of the collision”.
According to the daily life Expressn , the trivial police car, which rolled very quickly, crossed a safety slide for a reason still undetermined before hitting the heavy weight. The truck driver was hospitalized, according to the police.
Out of orders from an attack in 2015
After his dog’s drawing of dog, who followed the Danish caricatures of the prophet of Islam published in 2005, Lars Vilks lived under protection almost uninterrupted, because of numerous threats and aggression from Islamists.
His assassination was planned by American Colleen Larose, aka “Jihadjane”, who would have recruited Islamists for this purpose according to American justice, before being arrested in October 2009. In May 2010, two young brothers. Swedish original Kosovare are trying to burn his house with molotov cocktails. It was not there. In June 2010, he took a whim in a debate at the Swedish University of Uppsala who turns to Pugilat.
In September 2011, hundreds of people are evacuated with a Gothenburg building where the contemporary art biennale is inaugurated: the police, who has strong reasons to believe that Mr. Vilks will be attacked, stop four people .
On February 14, 2015, a young Danish of Palestinian origin had opened fire by trying to burst into a debate on freedom of expression in Copenhagen, organized after the deadly attack against the satirical weekly Charlie Weekly. Paris. Lars Vilks, headline of the meeting with the Ambassador of France, escaped unscathed, but a 55-year-old Danish director was killed. The assailant then had managed to kill a Jewish guard in front of the Copenhagen synagogue, before being shot at a face-to-face with the Danish police.
“I am not a fanatic racist, I do not have a political position. I am an artist who seeks the limits, who wants to find what you can do or not and where there may be a debate “, pleaded the designer with thick glasses.
“I try to keep my blood cold. The good side of things is that the people who have after me are probably poorly equipped, they are amateurs,” he confided to AFP eleven years ago.