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Danish police say a suspected gunman who attacked a free-speech debate and a Copenhagen synagogue was 22, born in Denmark and with a record of violence.

Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who has received death threats for depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog in 2007, was attending the free-speech debate and has said he believes he was the original target of the gunman.

"This is a game, where these people want to point out a few targets, which they then keep an intense interest for, and they scare everyone else, they then can remain some sort of threat against the whole people, with this idea," said Mr Vilks.

The alleged attacker was shot and killed on Sunday 15 February by police who were monitoring an address in the Norrebro district of the city. Danish media have named the suspect as Omar El-Hussein.

A film director and a synagogue guard were killed in the separate attacks. Five police officers were also injured.