The 74-year-old cartoonist, who was with his five-year-old granddaughter, raised the alarm from a specially designed panic room.<\/p>\n
Police said the suspect, who had a permit to stay in Denmark, was shot in the knee and the shoulder, but his life was not in danger.<\/p>\n
Jakob Scharf, who heads the Danish intelligence service Pet, earlier said the alleged attack was “terror related” and that the suspected assailant had close contacts to a radical Somalian insurgent group, al-Shabab.<\/p>\n
He had been under surveillance for activities unrelated to Mr Westergaard.<\/p>\n
The shaken cartoonist told Danish news agency Ritzau: “I locked myself in our safe room and alerted the police. He tried to smash the entrance door with an axe, but he didn’t manage.
\n“He used insults, I don’t remember which, but it was bad language. He spoke poor Danish and he wound up saying he’d be back.”<\/p>\n
Mr Westergaard also told the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten, where the cartoon was originally published, that he had been taken to a safe location, but defiantly added he would be back.<\/p>\n
Fritz Keldsen, deputy chief superintendent of Aarhus city police, said officers had arrived at Mr Westergaard’s home “in strong numbers”, after receiving the emergency call. <\/p>\n