Twenty-six people have been arrested following violent incidents in Sweden on Sunday between security forces and protesters protesting against a far-right rally that wanted to burn the Koran, police said today.
“The night was calm after yesterday’s riots in Navestad (in the city of Norrkπινping, in southwestern Sweden),” a district where many Muslims live, police said. “Police have detained eight people on suspicion of involvement in violent riots,” he added.
In the neighboring town of Linkκέping, where incidents also took place, 18 people were arrested.
Episodes broke out in both cities on Sunday for the second time in four days.
On Thursday, protesters rallied against the Danish-Swedish anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim “Hard Line” movement Rasmus Palundan.
Yesterday they protested again to protest another rally of the movement, which was finally canceled by Paloudan.
In Norrkπινping, police fired warning shots, injuring three people by the bullets fired.
Paludan, who has been convicted in Denmark of racist insults and intends to run in Sweden’s parliamentary elections in September, has been touring Sweden for the past few days, going to Muslim neighborhoods to burn the Koran.
In Malm., Where a Koran was burned on Saturday, episodes broke out on Sunday night for the second consecutive day, while a fire broke out in a school.
Paludan rallies, in which the Koran is burned, provoked the reaction of Arab countries.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry called on the Swede in Baghdad to protest, calling it a “provocative act against Muslims and an insult to their sanctuaries.”
Saudi Arabia also “condemned the actions of some extremists in Sweden and their provocations against Muslims,” the country’s SPA news agency reported.
SOURCE: AMPE
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