Four men pled not guilty on Friday as they went on trial in Denmark over a suspected plot to massacre the staff of a newspaper that first published caricatures blasphemous to Islam.
The four — three Swedish nationals and one Tunisian resident of Sweden — face charges of “attempted terrorism” over what prosecutors say was a plot to “kill a large number of people” at the Jyllands-Posten daily’s offices in Copenhagen.
Jyllands-Posten published a dozen cartoons that triggered violent and sometimes deadly protests around the world. A machine gun, a revolver and 108 bullets and reams of duct tape were found in the men’s possession when they were arrested on December 29, 2010.
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