![]() ![]() Police said Wednesday they had called in reinforcements from across the country to maintain order.Īn AFP correspondent said several police cars were already parked near the mosque early Wednesday. “I want to protest in front of the large mosque in Stockholm, and I want to express my opinion about the Qur’an… I will tear up the Qur’an and burn it,” Salwan Momika, 37, wrote in the application, a copy of which was obtained by AFP. The request for the Wednesday demonstration was made by the same private individual who had his previous request blocked. ![]() The appeals court in mid-June ruled that police were wrong to ban those, saying “the order and security problems” referenced by the police did not have “a sufficiently clear connection to the planned event or its immediate vicinity.” ![]() Police then banned two subsequent requests for protests involving Qur’an burnings - one by a private individual and one by an organization, outside the Turkish and Iraqi embassies in Stockholm in February. Turkiye, which has blocked the bid due to what it perceives as Stockholm’s failure to crack down on Kurdish groups it views as “terrorists,” took particular offense that police had authorized the January demonstration. Police had at the time cited security concerns, following a burning of the Muslim holy book outside Turkiye’s embassy in January which led to weeks of protests, calls for a boycott of Swedish goods and further stalled Sweden’s NATO membership bid. ![]()
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