Mr Westergaard avoided injury by sheltering in a panic room at his home in the city of Aarhus.

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Mr Westergaard was at home with his five-year-old granddaughter Stephanie at the time.

BBC: Denmark cartoon trial: Kurt Westergaard attacker jailed

Westergaard remains under police protection and does not know whether it will continue.

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During the trial, the court heard that Geele broke into Mr Westergaard's house in Aarhus on New Year's Day 2010, smashing the door down.

BBC: Denmark cartoon trial: Kurt Westergaard attacker jailed

Emile Westergaard, who specialized in health care investing, says he had no trouble raising funds for a new firm, Tokum Capital Management, to pursue the same strategy he had at Amaranth.

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The paper identified the cartoonist as Kurt Westergaard.

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"Of course I fear for my life after the Danish Security and Intelligence Service informed me of the concrete plans of certain people to kill me, " Westergaard said in a statement posted on the newspaper's Web site.

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