STOCKHOLM: A controversial Swedish cartoonist believed to have been the target of one of the deadly Copenhagen shootings said Tuesday that Danish police had underestimated the terrorist threat since January’s Paris attacks.

“The attacker had good weapons, he had better weapons than the police,” Lars Vilks, who has been forced into hiding since the weekend shootings, told AFP.

“There was an escalation since the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris and the Danes had not caught onto that,” he said.

Vilks was among those attending an event at a cultural center attacked on Saturday by a gunman who also targeted a synagogue in a rampage that left two people dead and five wounded.

The assaults came just weeks after the Paris attacks last month by gunmen on the Charlie Hebdo weekly and a kosher supermarket that left 17 people dead.