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3 February 2011
Last updated at 06:33 ET
A Somali man who broke into the home of a Danish cartoonist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad has been convicted of terrorism.
Mohamed Geele, 29, was shot and wounded by police after the attack last year on Kurt Westergaard, 75, who avoided injury by sheltering in a panic room.
He was acquitted of attempting to murder a policeman.
Geele had denied the charges, telling the court in Aarhus he was only trying to frighten the cartoonist.
A judge is expected to pass sentence on Friday.
Mr Westergaard's cartoon of a turban bomb was one of 12 published in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 that prompted protests among Muslims around the world.
He first went into hiding but then decided to live openly in a heavily fortified house in Aarhus, Denmark's second city.
Axe and knife While acquitted of attempting to murder a policeman, Geele was found guilty of aggravated assault.
During the trial, the court heard that Geele broke into Mr Westergaard's house in Aarhus on New Year's Day 2010, smashing the door down.
Mr Westergaard was at home with his five-year-old grand-daughter Stephanie at the time.
Geele, who was armed with an axe and a knife, screamed "You must die!" and "You are going to Hell!", the cartoonist told the court.
He locked himself in his panic room - a reinforced bathroom - leaving Stephanie alone in the living-room because his attacker was "after me, not the people around me".
The little girl, who was unhurt in the attack, testified that she had thought Geele was a thief and had asked him to go away.
Geele tried to get into the bathroom, hacking at the door with his axe, but fled when he heard police sirens.
Still armed, he was shot and wounded by police arriving at the scene, who then arrested him.
The convicted man is suspected of links to the Somali Islamist movement Al-Shabab.
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Mohamed Geele, 29, was shot and wounded by police after the attack last year on Kurt Westergaard, 75, who avoided injury by sheltering in a panic room.
He was acquitted of attempting to murder a policeman.
Geele had denied the charges, telling the court in Aarhus he was only trying to frighten the cartoonist.
A judge is expected to pass sentence on Friday.
Mr Westergaard's cartoon of a turban bomb was one of 12 published in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 that prompted protests among Muslims around the world.
He first went into hiding but then decided to live openly in a heavily fortified house in Aarhus, Denmark's second city.
Axe and knife While acquitted of attempting to murder a policeman, Geele was found guilty of aggravated assault.
During the trial, the court heard that Geele broke into Mr Westergaard's house in Aarhus on New Year's Day 2010, smashing the door down.
Mr Westergaard was at home with his five-year-old grand-daughter Stephanie at the time.
Geele, who was armed with an axe and a knife, screamed "You must die!" and "You are going to Hell!", the cartoonist told the court.
He locked himself in his panic room - a reinforced bathroom - leaving Stephanie alone in the living-room because his attacker was "after me, not the people around me".
The little girl, who was unhurt in the attack, testified that she had thought Geele was a thief and had asked him to go away.
Geele tried to get into the bathroom, hacking at the door with his axe, but fled when he heard police sirens.
Still armed, he was shot and wounded by police arriving at the scene, who then arrested him.
The convicted man is suspected of links to the Somali Islamist movement Al-Shabab.
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