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Today’s dawn was marked by riots in Malmö, Sweden, with some 300 people protesting that far-right supporters had burned a copy of the Quran and were involved in clashes with the police.
Police in the city, the third largest in Sweden, in the south of the country, announced today that 10 to 20 people have been arrested and several police officers have suffered minor injuries.
The detainees “have been released,” said a police spokesman, Patric Fors.
The first incidents occurred in the early hours of Friday afternoon and worsened around 9 pm local time (8 pm in Lisbon).
The protesters threw objects at the police and set fire to the garbage after “hours before a Koran was burned in the area,” explained Rickard Lundqvist, a police spokesman, quoted today by the Swedish newspaper Expressen.
TT news agency
TT news agency
Also according to the press, a group of people linked to the Danish far-left party Stram Kurs (Hard Line) met at an industrial estate in Malmö and burned a copy of the holy book for Muslims.
A video published by the press shows several people kicking a Quran, but it is not clear that they are the same people or the same book.
Six of the participants were arrested on suspicion of “hate speech,” police said.
These incidents come a day after the leader of the Hard Line, Rasmus Paludan, was expelled from Sweden and declared ‘persona non grata’, barring him from entering the country for two years.
Rasmus Paludan intended to arrive in Malmö for an anti-Muslim demonstration, but his entry into Sweden was denied for “security reasons”, an order he did not follow, as he was detained in Lernacken, near Malmö.
