Exhibition of caricatures of the Prophet finished shooting – BBC Russian

• May 4, 2015

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The building, which hosted the exhibition, was guarded by the police and security services.

The building in the suburbs of Dallas, the United States, where an exhibition on the results of the competition of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the unknown opened fire.

Two armed firearms attackers were killed in a shootout with the police. One of the guards was wounded.

The police blocked the building of the Curtis Center Kalvella in Garland, where an exhibition, and asked the participants for their own safety, do not go out.

Among the participants of the meeting – known for his anti-Islamic views of Dutch politician Geert Wilders .

He later said on Twitter that, indeed, shots rang out in the street, but he was safely out of the building.

One of the witnesses told the Associated Press that he heard about 20 shots , sounded, apparently from a passing car. After that rocked two separate shots.

As reported by Reuters, two armed men in a car drove up to the entrance to the conference center where the event was already coming to an end and dug fire on the guard, wounding him in the leg . To help him come to police returned fire and killed two of the attackers.

The conference was made famous for his anti-Islamic views of Dutch politician Geert Wilders

event is conducted by “American initiative to protect freedom,” announced the award of 10 thousand dollars for the best cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.

These cartoons offensive to many Muslims.

newspaper Dallas Morning News reported that opponents of the exhibition and competition of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed accused the organizers of the attack on Islam. However, organizers of the event said that the only exercise their right to freedom of expression.

Police said the dead were not identified at the site, and it is not clear whether they were linked in any way with those that was against the exhibition.

The meeting was told in telephone interview with BBC BBC that the exhibition was held under heightened security and guarded by lots of police and uniformed special forces SWAT.

In 2006, the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has led to mass demonstrations.

In January, 2105 as amended by the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, also published cartoons of the Prophet, were Islamists killed 12 of its employees.

The conference organizers said that defending freedom of expression