Three people were injured by gunfire in violent clashes in Sweden today between law enforcement officials and demonstrators protesting against a farright group that boasts of burning the Koran during its public rallies. Norrköping police reported several warning shots. “Three people appear to have recovered and are currently being treated in hospital,” he wrote in a statement. The three injured, whose condition is unknown, are “in custody, suspected of a crime,” it said.
This is the second such clash in Norrköping in four days. For the first time, a counterdemonstration was directed against a rally by the antiimmigration and antiIslam group Hard Line, led by extremist Rasmus Paludan. Today, opponents took to the streets again for yet another farright appointment that Paludan eventually resigned. In Norrköping, four people were arrested among the approximately 150 participants in the demonstration, which police say involved stones being thrown at officers and vehicles being set on fire.
The history For three nights in Sweden, it came during a series of demonstrations and antimarches following antiIslamic actions promoted by a farright group that burned a copy of the Koran and threatened to do so again. The BBC reports. Violence broke out on the outskirts of Stockholm, but also in Malmö, Linköping and Norrköping. In the Rosengrad district of Malmo, police dispersed a crowd of protesters who had set fire to a bus. Rightwing extremists from the Stram Kurs (Hard Line) movement, led by extremist Rasmus Paludan, met in the city. Vehicles were set on fire and some protesters threw stones at police. In recent days there have been further clashes between police and demonstrators in Sweden. At least 16 police officers were reportedly injured and several police vehicles destroyed in the unrest that followed the farright group’s demonstrations on the outskirts of Stockholm and in the cities of Linköping and Norrköping. The head of the Swedish National Police, Anders Thornberg, emphasized the brutality of the action, which also resonated beyond the country’s borders. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry ordered the Swedish chargé d’affaires to Baghdad and warned that the affair could have “serious repercussions” on relations between Sweden and Muslim communities in general. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh protested to the Swedish government, saying he held it “responsible” for the “deliberate repetition of acts against Islam” that “hurt the feelings of Muslims in this country and in the world.” . Demand “an immediate, strong and clear response to those at fault”.
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