Salwan Momika, Iraqi immigrant who started Protests in Sweden and several Muslim countries When he burned the Qur’an In Stockholm, he was killed in 2023, the Swedish Prosecutorial Administration said on Thursday morning.
Police said they had arrested five people and that a murder investigation had been launched.
Mr. Momika was supposed to appear in Stockholm District Court on Thursday morning. He was supposed to receive a verdict on charges related to Kurranian burning, which encouraged international anger in 2023, and to other demonstrations later that year in which he repeated the law.
The shooting happened late Wednesday in Sodertalja, a city near Stockholm.
The authorities did not say if they believe that the murder was associated with Burn of the Qur’an, but Ulf Kristsson, a Swedish Prime Minister, said the country’s security service is looking at the murder.
“Obviously there is a risk that there is a connection with a foreign force,” Mr. Kristersson told reporters. Mr. Momike’s defender Anna Roth said he had received death threats.
“He was pretty convinced that he would kill sooner or later,” Mrs. Roth said in a telephone conversation on Thursday.
Mr. Momika paid the Qur’an during Eid al-Adha, a great Islamic vacation, outside the mosque in Stockholm. He was born and grown up with a Christian, but later said he was an atheist, Mrs. Roth said. By burning the Qur’an, he said he was trying to raise awareness of the harassment and killing of Christian minorities by the Islamist in some parts of the Muslim world.
“I warn the Swedish people at the dangers of this book,” Mr. Momika said through a megaphone outside the mosque.
The response of the Muslim world was fast and angry, with much of the criticism aimed at Swedish authorities for not stopping Gora.
In Iraq, several hundred people Storm was a Swedish embassy in Baghdad and place its parts. Iraq expelled the ambassador to Sweden and sent his ambassador to Sweden to withdraw from his embassy to Stockholm.
Egypt called the Qur’an Burning “a shameful act. “And Morocco recalled his ambassador to Sweden, his state news agency reported.
The Swedish authorities at the time condemned Mr. Momika’s actions, but police approved a permit for his planned demonstrations after the Swedish court ruled that he would be banned from speaking freedom.
The permission, however, did not allow him to burn the cases, and Mr. Momika was subsequently charged with agitation against an ethnic or national group in four incidents of hitting, imprisoning and burning the Qur’an. He also gave speeches with derogatory statements directed against Muslims and Islam, according to the indictment.
“The fact that statements are made in the big square and wider is a prerequisite for stimulus on racial hatred,” said Anna Hankkio, a Swedish prosecutor who initially filed charges against Mr. Momika. “It is in the district court to evaluate whether the burning of the Qur’an can be considered by encouraging against a group of people.”
Later that summer, Mr. Momika burned the Qur’an again, according to the indictment.
The Qur’an Burnings – and the resulting horror and anger from the Muslim world – caused discussions in Sweden, who struggled with whether to allow such protests.
Before Mr Momika burned the Holy Book, Swedish authorities denied other anti-Kuran protests, citing concern about disorders in the public order. After burning, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the action of Islamophobic Mr. Mamin, and officials warned that such protests could influence national security policy in the country. The domestic safety agency briefly raised the threat of terrorism to its most difficult mark.
Salwan, who joined Mr. Momiki in some protests and was also charged with burning the Qur’an, was a co -accused in a case that he should be decided on Thursday. He is now ready to receive a verdict on February 3.
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