Images of Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who died on Sunday 3 October 2021 in a car crash along with two police bodyguards. Seventy-five-year-old Vilks lived under almost continuous police protection due to numerous threats and attacks from Islamists after his 2007 caricature depicting Mohammed as a dog was published in a Swedish newspaper. In 2015 Vilks escaped unharmed after a young Danish man of Palestinian origin opened fire at a debate on freedom of expression in Copenhagen, organised after the deadly attack on the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. A 55-year-old Danish film director and a guard at Copenhagen synagogue were both shot dead by the gunman, who was himself killed in a stand-off with Danish police. PROFILE OF LARS VILKS