Attacked by a car, minutes after publicly burning one Koranin the suburbs of Oslo at Norway received by the head of an extremist, anti-Islamic organization in Norway after a spectacular manhunt.
Norwegian police in a statement say they have arrested two people, including the driver of the vehicle that deliberately rammed into Lars Toren’s 4×4 and overturned it. Toren is the head of the radical organization Stop the Islamization of Norway (Sian).
According to the same information, the five passengers of the vehicle were slightly injured. One of them, according to the Athens News Agency, had to be taken to a hospital.
In a video posted on Facebook, Lars Toren and other members of his organization first drive to Mortensrud, an Oslo suburb with a large Muslim community. Finger-picked anti-Islamists burn a Koran at an intersection, prompting a backlash from residents, who try to put out the flames.
A small crowd quickly gathers and protests are heard, mainly from a woman who grabs what’s left of the burning book, encouraging Toren’s group. He then gets into a silver Mercedes as passenger.
The 4×4 of the anti-Islamic activists is leaving. But a few seconds later, the Mercedes arrives and knocks it, lightly, onto the side of the road that leads to the freeway. After attempting to stop the SUV by zig-zagging, the Mercedes accelerates and eventually hits it at high speed, overturning it.
“We have every reason to believe that Sian’s car was deliberately crashed,” police said in a statement.
The driver and her passenger were arrested.
Many far-right, anti-Islamic activists in Scandinavia, such as Danish-Swedish Rasmus Palundan, have in recent years made a habit of burning Korans in neighborhoods where many Muslims live. These challenges, which they portray as “freedom of expression”, often lead to incidents with counter-protesters, as happened recently in Sweden over the Easter weekend.
Source: News Beast
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