In the Swedish riots, three were injured against the far right
HELSINKI (AP) – Swedish police said they fired warning shots during a riot in an eastern city to disperse protesters angry at protests by a Danish anti-Islamic group in Sweden in recent days. Three people were slightly injured in the clashes.
A crowd of about 150 people threw stones at police and police vehicles and set cars on fire. Police said they responded to warning shots and “three people appear to be in trouble” and were hospitalized in Norrköping, which has about 130,000 inhabitants and is about 160 kilometers (100 miles) southwest of Stockholm.
“All three injured have been arrested on suspicion of a crime,” police said, adding that none of them had serious injuries.
An on-site photographer from the Swedish news agency TT said several riot police were seen transporting the wounded man to an ambulance.
The riot erupted after meetings with Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan and the burning of the Koran in several Swedish cities from Thursday.
Paluda and his Stram Kurs party had planned a demonstration in Norrköping on Sunday, but he never appeared in the city, Swedish media reported. Unrest was also reported in the nearby city of Linköping.
Paludan said on the party’s Facebook page that he decided to cancel Sunday’s protests in the two locations because the Swedish authorities in the region have “shown that they are completely incapable of protecting themselves and me. for the Danes and the other North. “
In addition to Norrköping and Linköping, unrest and violent clashes have been reported in Stockholm, Örebro, Landskrona and Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city, over the past three days.
On Friday night, violent clashes between protesters and protesters broke out in downtown Orebro ahead of Paludan’s plan to burn the Koran, injuring 12 police and setting fire to four police vehicles.
In Landskrona in southern Sweden, a few hundred mostly young people threw rocks and set fire to cars, tires and rubbish bins. They also erected a traffic jam boom on Saturday night. Similar unrest occurred in nearby Malmö, where, among other things, a city bus caught fire late Saturday.
Paludan, a Danish lawyer who also has Swedish citizenship, founded the Stram Kurs, or “Hard Line,” in 2017. The Party for Immigration and Anti-Islam says, “Stram Kurs is the most patriotic political party in Denmark.”