Violent incidents broke out during the night in the town of Malmo, in southern Swedenafter rallies denouncing the intention of an extreme right-wing organization to burn a copy of the Koran, police announced today.
“There were fires at various points during the night in Malmo,” police said in a statement.
Garbage bins, a bus and a car were burned, they explained. Many lawsuits have also been filed for property vandalism.
The episodes broke out after a rally of the anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic “Hard Line” led by the Danish Rasmus Palundanwhich is currently organizing a tour in Sweden resulting in many clashes between police and protesters in several Swedish cities.
Palutan’s rally on Saturday was moved from a Landskrona neighborhood to a car park in Malmo, a large neighboring city, to avoid clashes.
However, protests erupted in various parts of Malmo, with some throwing stones at police.
“The situation calmed down around 3 in the morning, there were some fires but the violence has stopped”said police spokeswoman Kim Hold on public radio SR, saying no members of the police force were injured.
The day before yesterday, Good Friday of the catholics, Police cars were set on fire in the city of Orebro, in the southern part of the country. There were also riots with stones in the capital Stockholm.
About 12 police officers were injured.
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