Salwan Momika, a Iraqi man who burned the Qur’an in Sweden, killed in a shooting | News about religion

Five people arrested for killing while the Swedish Prime Minister said the shooting could be associated with a foreign force.

Iraqi refugee in Sweden was killed several hours before the judgment of the court on the repeated burning of the Qur’an in demonstrations against Islam last year.

Police announced on Thursday that they had committed five arrests regarding the killing of a 38-year-old Salwan Maticswho was allegedly shot in a house in the town of Sodertalja near Stockholm the previous day.

“I assure you that safety services are deeply involved because there is obviously a risk that there is a connection with a foreign force,” said Ulf Kristersson’s Swedish Prime Minister’s premiere conference at a press conference.

Vice Prime Minister Ebba Busch condemned the murder.

“It is a threat to our free democracy. It must encounter the full strength of our society,” she wrote on X.

Stockholm district court, who was supposed to judge on Thursday whether Momika and co -defendant Salwan were wrong for “agitation against an ethnic or national group,” he said he had delayed his verdict on February 3 as a result of a former former death.

According to the list of charges published in August, the couple was cut by the Qur’an, including the ignition, at the same time gave derogatory remarks about Muslims – on one occasion outside the mosque in Stockholm.

Prosecutor Rasmus Oman confirmed that the investigation was opened in Momika’s murder. “We are in very early stages … collecting a lot of information,” he said.

Several media reported that the shooting may have been broadcast live on social media.

Police replied late Wednesday to call for a shooting in an apartment building where Momika lived in the town of Sodertalja, finding a man who “hit shots”.

The video watched by Reuters news agency showed that police raise the phone and end up a live stream that looked like Momike’s Tiktok account.

Anger

In 2023, Sweden raised its “terrorism” alert to the second highest level and warned of the threats of the Swedes at home and abroad after the Qur’an Burnings rested many Muslims around the world.

Iraqi protesters He responded with a storm to the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad twice in July 2023, starting with a fire within the junction on another occasion.

Momika, who has lived in Sweden since 2018, was facing a possible deportation of 2023 because of the allegedly provided fake information about his application for stay.

However, the Swedish migration agency eventually assigned him a temporary license after deciding to risk the torture and inhumane treatment in Iraq.

In March 2024, Momika left Sweden to seek asylum in Norway, saying that the Swedish freedom of expression and protection of human rights was a “great lie”.

But Norway deported him to Sweden a few weeks later.