A consignment of smuggled drugs in banana boxes ended up at a Danish supermarket instead of on the streets.

The men arrested on suspicion of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings were two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin, Danish police have revealed.

Danish police said today that they have arrested several people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings which sparked uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.