COPENHAGEN, Feb 10: The Jyllands-Posten editor who commissioned controversial cartoons has been sent on holiday after suggesting he would print Iranian cartoons of the Holocaust.

“The Editors have told Flemming Rose to take a vacation because no one can understand the kind of pressure he has been under,” Jyllands-Posten editor Carsten Juste told Berlingske Tidende newspaper.

The chairman of the foundation which owns the newspaper, Asger Noergaard Larsen, had earlier refused calls to sack Mr Juste and Mr Rose, saying he fully backed the management and that there is no crisis at the newspaper.

“I think you could say that the violence in the Middle East and the boycott of Danish goods looks like a crisis, but we do not have a crisis,” Larsen told Berlingske Tidende. —Reuters