By Dara Doyle and Colm Heatley March 9 (Bloomberg) — Irish police arrested seven people in Cork and Waterford in connection with an investigation into a conspiracy to murder an individual in another country. Irish police have “been working closely with law enforcement agencies in the United States and in a number of European countries,” the police said in a statement today, without giving additional details. The arrests, which took place in counties Waterford and Cork, are in connection with an investigation into a conspiracy to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, RTE reported today, without saying where it got the information. Vilks depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog and Al-Qaeda offered $100,000 for the murder of Vilks in 2007, the broadcaster said. All those arrested are being detained under section 50 of the criminal justice act, which allows them to be detained for as long as seven days, a police spokesman who declined to be identified, said by phone. The arrested includes four men and three women, RTE said. To contact the reporter on this story: Dara Doyle at ddoyle1@bloomberg.net Colm Heatley in Belfast at cheatley@bloomberg.net
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Ireland Arrests Seven in Overseas Murder Plot Probe Linked to Cartoonist
