A civilian was killed and three police were wounded on Saturday in shooting at a meeting in Copenhagen attended by Lars Vilks, an artist who has received death threats since publishing images of the Prophet Mohammad.
Danish police confirmed one civilian had been killed in the shooting and said the two suspects had fled in a car after the attack on the gathering, which had been billed as a debate on art and blasphemy.
Danish police are investigating the shooting as a "terror act", police spokesman Jorgen Skov told journalists.
Danish news agency Ritzau said both Vilks and the French ambassador, who was also attending, were both unharmed, but that three police had been wounded.
Sweden's security police said Swedish bodyguards were with Vilks at the time of the shooting.
Just over a month ago, 17 people were killed in France in three days of violence that began when two gunmen burst into the Paris offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, opening fire in revenge for its publication of satirical images of Prophet Mohammad.
He has received numerous death threats and has lived under the constant protection of the Swedish police since 2010. Two years ago, an American woman who called herself Jihad Jane was sentenced to 10 years in prison for plotting to kill him.
French President Francois Hollande said Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve would go to the Danish capital as soon as possible.
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