A total of 26 detainees and more than twenty police officers injured was the balance of the riots recorded between Friday and Sunday in various parts of Sweden
Rasmus Paludan, a 40-year-old Danish lawyer, caused chaos on these holidays – not only in the Christian world, but also for the Muslim world – with a provocative campaign calling for “burning the Koran” and where a bus ended up burning. neighboring Sweden.
A total of 26 detainees and more than twenty police officers injured was the balance of the riots recorded between Friday and Sunday in various parts of Sweden. The aforementioned bus was burned, stones and Molotov cocktails were thrown at the riot police, several cars were damaged and urban furniture was destroyed in six Swedish cities.
The trigger was Paludan’s call to burn a copy of the holy book of Islam in each of his announced acts, a religion that, in his opinion, should be outlawed, as well as non-Western immigration.
It is not the first time that this lawyer and politician calls this type of act. In March 2020, he was intercepted in Berlin, where he had announced one of his “burnings” in the multi-ethnic neighborhood of Neukölln, with a high proportion of Muslim population. He did not get off the plane, because the Berlin police prevented him, but he returned to Copenhagen in the same plane. A few months earlier, the Swedish authorities prohibited her from entering his territory for similar reasons.
The prohibition at that time was revoked, as Paludan claimed his dual Swedish-Danish nationality. The condition of Swedish citizen now served him to lead his campaign for that country. He toured Malmö, the Swedish city connected to Denmark through the longest bridge in Europe -7.8 kilometers-. He then went on to Stockholm and Norrköping, south of the capital. In each of these cities, as well as in other parts of Sweden where he did not even attend, incidents broke out between his followers and protesters of the opposite sign protesting his presence in the country.
Paludan has tried, without luck, to jump into the Danish parliamentary spectrum on several occasions and at the head of different right-wing formations, some of which he was expelled for his radicalism. In 2017 he founded his own party, Stram Kur (Firm Course). Even with that platform he has not managed to get out of marginality, but he has achieved some notoriety and raised a notable stir on social networks with provocative videos and proclamations. His purpose now is to extend his campaign to Sweden, where legislative elections are held next September.
From the Arab world his campaign has been condemned as a “serious offense”, which also coincides with the holy month of Ramadan. Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, Kuwait and Qatar have protested, on a diplomatic level or through their spokesmen, for this “public incitement” to hatred of Muslims.
Especially harsh was Tehran’s reaction to the Swedish ambassador, who was shocked at previously authorized acts, “under the pretext of freedom of expression and with the support of the Swedish police.”
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