Muslim men charged in relation to death threats against cartoonist

TWO Muslim men were brought before a special sitting of Waterford District Court last night in relation to an ongoing probe into alleged death threats against a Swedish artist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog.

Algerian Ali Charafe Damache and Abdul-Salam Mansour Al-Jehani from Libya were brought before a special late night court sitting. Damache was charged with sending a menacing text message, while Al-Jehani was charged with an immigration offence.

Damache, whose address was given as John Collins House, High Street, Waterford, was charged with sending a message of a menacing nature on a phone on January 9.