Right-wing extremist Koran-burning demonstrations are causing concern in Sweden
During demonstrations on Friday, protesters and counter-protesters clashed in central Örebro. On Saturday, clashes occurred in the southwestern city of Malmö, which the Swedish police described as a “messy night” with many “disturbances in the form of fire and attacks on the police”, as well as Molotov cocktails and thrown stones. Vehicles, including a city bus, were set on fire. In a statementsaid the police that their goal was to maintain the “constitutionally protected freedom of opinion and meeting freedom” for the licensed congregation and counter-demonstrators.
On Sunday, Paludan wrote on social media that he would cancel demonstrations in Linköping and Norrköping – nearby cities in eastern Sweden – because the police had shown that they were “incapable” of protecting themselves and Paludan.
On the same day, three people in Norrköping were apparently hit by police bullets after the authorities fired warning shots when they tried to disperse protesters who were angry about the recent days’ demonstrations, the Associated Press reported. They “appear to have been hit by ricochets,” police said in a statement, adding that the three were not seriously injured but received medical attention.
In a Sunday interview with Aftonbladet, Minister of Justice Morgan Johansson says told the rebels To go home. “Johansson branded Paludan as a” right-wing extremist fool, whose only goal is to drive violence and division “but added that” Sweden is a democracy and in a democracy fools also have freedom of speech. “
2020 was Paludan convicted to three months in prison for, among other things, racism and slander.
In 2019, his party was close to entering the parliament in Denmark. Although Stram Kurs did not get a place that year, Denmark saw one in particular mainstream shift right on anti-immigration policy. In 2018, the nationalist and right-wing populist Sweden Democrats, a group of neo-Nazi origin, received about 18 percent of the votes in Sweden’s parliamentary elections. Its upswing was attributed by analysts largely to concerns about crime and migration.