According to the English Wikipedia's timeline,

# October 28:
* Danish police are notified by a number of Muslim organizations, claiming that the intention of the publication of the cartoons has been to "mock and deride" the Muslim faith, something the Danish penal code prohibits (§ 140).

In another thread I have investigated what Spanish Criminal Law says about this issue, and the related court cases (there is a second court case that I want to summarize later today).

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman