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Violent riots continue in the Rosengård district of Malmö on Friday night. Hundreds of people are blocking streets and throwing stones at the police and rescue services in the area. Several image fires also started overnight. The police testify about property damage to both the police and the rescue service vehicles.
– As it seems now, we do not have the situation under control, says Rickard Lundqvist, press spokesman for the police in the southern region of TT shortly before eleven thirty at night.
The police believe that there are several violent disturbances in the district and several people have been arrested. Rickard Lundqvist has no information on people injured at this time.
The violence has arisen from the burning of the Koran outside Rosengård that same day.
– At the moment, a lot of violence is directed against the police, says Rickard Lundqvist.
He also says that the police are still actively working on the ground to defuse the situation. Something they tried to do all Friday night.
No entry
Danish right-wing extremist Rasmus Paludan was arrested on the same day at the border with Sweden and denied entry into the country. He would have participated in a plaza meeting organized by the street artist and provocateur Dan Park, who had previously been convicted of incitement to an ethnic group.
The plan was, among other things, to burn a bacon-wrapped Quran, something Paludan had done several times before in Denmark. Rasmus Paludan was also banned from entering Sweden for two years on Friday.
Following the announcement, an unauthorized demonstration took place at Stortorget in Malmö, where three people were arrested on suspicion of inciting an ethnic group after kicking the Koran. No one has yet been arrested for the burning of the Koran, which was organized by the far-right Danish party Stram Kurs. According to the police, it was the burning of the Koran that sparked the violent riots in the district.
Imam Samir Muric has reacted to the night’s riots and writes on Facebook: “I throw in the towel. I am free from this. I have nothing to do with these people. I am ashamed. The Swedish people do not deserve this.”
Security considerations
Already on Wednesday, the police decided to stop the meeting in the Danish politician’s square. The administrative court got on the police line on Friday and denied him permission for the meeting, for security reasons. One reason for denying permission was for reasons of order and security, the court writes in a press release, referring to the fact that the threat “appears to be so serious that a restriction on freedom of assembly and demonstration is justified.”
However, according to the police, a planned burning of the Koran was never mentioned in the original application; the organizer instead mentions that they want to “talk about the consequences of Islamization in the Nordic countries” outside the Islamic Center in Rosengård in connection with Friday prayers at the mosque.
However, the planned event has raised strong sentiments and concerns, and 18 Muslim congregations and associations in the city have together announced plans to incite incitement against ethnic groups.
Protesters throw cobblestones at the police in Rosengård. Photo: TT
Of course it is a far-right Danish party with a controversial leader in Rasmus Paludan, who has burned the Koran wrapped in bacon.
The party, founded in 2017, wants to ban Islam and the mass deportation of Muslims.
Rasmus Paludan was sentenced earlier this summer to three months in prison for, among other things, defamation.
Paludan was punished for a racist statement about Muslims in connection with a demonstration in Frederikssund. He was also found guilty on 13 other charges, including endangering a person’s life.
Paludan has also been previously convicted of violating section 266 b of the Danish Penal Code, also known as the racism section.
At the beginning of June this year, Danish police shot a man in the leg, as the man threatened Rasmus Paludan with a knife in connection with a demonstration. Paludan was not injured in the incident.
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