2011 Gothenburg terrorism plot

The 2011 Gothenburg terrorism plot was an alleged plot to commit a terrorist attack on a party celebrating the opening of the 2011 Gothenburg International Art Biennial in a Röda Sten Contemporary Art Space on September 11, 2011.
Police evacuated 400 partygoers from the art gallery and initially arrested four men suspected of plotting a terror attack nearby.
Suspicions of Islamist motivation were aroused by the fact that the alleged attack was said to have been planned of the 10th anniversary of the 2001 September 11 attacks.
Vilks' Muhammad cartoons inspired suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly to commit the 2010 Stockholm bombings. An email received by Swedish media before the Stockholm suicide bombing read, in part:""Now your children, daughters and sisters will die in the same way our brothers and sisters die. Our actions will speak for themselves. As long as you don't end your war against Islam and degradation against the prophet and your foolish support for the pig Vilks."
Vilks was the target of the 2015 Copenhagen shootings. All three were carrying knives while they were arrested.

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