A Danish court on Monday found four men guilty of plotting to attack the office of a newspaper that published a cartoon caricaturing Prophet Muhammad seven years ago.
Kurt Westergaard's cartoon depicting the Prophet wearing a turban bomb was among a dozen such controversial drawings published by the Danish newspaper 'Jyllands-Posten' in 2005. The images infuriated Muslims across the world, while terrorists threatened to attack the newspaper for publishing the cartoons.
Four Muslim residents of Sweden were arrested in December 2010 hours before they were about to carry out an attack which prosecutors say that targeted to kill "as many people as possible inside the paper's offices."
Delivering the verdict, Justice Katrine Eriksen told the court in Copenhagen that the accused are guilty of terrorism, a charge that makes them punishable upto 16 years' imprisonment.
Munir Ben Mohamed Dhahri - a Tunisian -- and Sabhi Ben Mohamed Zalouti, Munir Awad, and Omar Abdallah Aboelazm - all Swedish citizens - denied the charges.
In February last year, a Danish court sentenced a Somali man living in Denmark, who attacked the home of Westergaard over caricaturing the Prophet, to nine years' in jail.
Two Danish citizens of Somali origin, suspected of planning a terrorist attack in the country to avenge the publishing of the controversial cartoon, were arrested in the country last week.
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