Three people were injured as police fired warning shots at rioters in the eastern city of Norrkoping. The unrest had started after a far-right politician threatened to burn a copy of the Quran.
Highlights
- Police fire warning shots at rioters in city of Norrkoping in eastern Sweden.
- Rioters had gathered after far-right politician threatened to burn copies of the Quran.
- Sweden’s Justice Minister Morgan Johansson tells rioters to “Go home, immediately” Similar clashes in recent days have caused damage and injuries in several Swedish cities.
- Rasmus Paludan’s anti-immigration and anti-Islamic Stram Kurs (Hard Line) movement has sparked days of violence triggered by far right-wing politician’s threats to burn the Quran, Islam’s holy book during extremist rallies in Sweden’s capital and southern city of Malmo.
- The violence broke out for the second time in the city of Linkoping.