STOCKHOLM, Jan 30 — A man who repeatedly burnt the Quran in 2023 in Sweden, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead south of Stockholm, investigators said...
Investigators said that five people had been arrested murder of 38-year-old Salwan Momika. — AFP picas a first-time user . Exclusively for Malay Mail readers: Use codeSTOCKHOLM, Jan 30 — A man who repeatedly burnt the Quran in 2023 in Sweden , sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead south of Stockholm, investigators said Thursday, adding that five people had been arrested.
A Stockholm court had been due to rule Thursday whether Momika, a Christian Iraqi, was guilty of inciting ethnic hatred but said it had postponed its ruling until February 3 as a result of his death. According to the charge sheet, the duo desecrated the Quran, including burning it, while making derogatory remarks about Muslims — on one occasion outside a Stockholm mosque.Iraqi protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad twice in July 2023, starting fires within the compound on the second occasion.
In October 2023, the Swedish Migration Agency revoked his residency permit, citing false information in his original application, but he was granted a temporary one as it said there was an “impediment to enforcement” of a deportation to Iraq.In March 2024, Momika left Sweden to seek asylum in Norway, telling AFP that Sweden’s freedom of expression and protection of human rights was “a big lie”.
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