A man who repeatedly burnt the Quran was shot dead hours before he was due to receive a court verdict following a trial over desecrating the Holy Quran, and five people were arrested over the shooting on Thursday.
Swedish police on Thursday said five people had been arrested over the fatal shooting of an Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings. The five were arrested in connection with the incident late on Wednesday and ordered detained by a prosecutor, Swedish police said on their website. They did not say if the shooter was among those detained. The incident occurred indoors and when police arrived they found a man who had been “hit by shots and the man was taken to the hospital,” the statement said. Salwan Momika, 38 years old , was shot in a house in the town of Sodertalje near Stockholm, public broadcaster SVT reported, citing unnamed police sources.
Whole Story of Salvan Momika :
Momika had originally planned to stage his Stockholm protest in February 2023, but police denied him a permit citing security concerns. Moreover they approach the court and that ruling was overturned in court, clearing the way for his demonstration .Speaking to newspaper Aftonbladet in April 2023, Momika stressed that his intention was not to cause Sweden any trouble. His June protest drew condemnation faces serious reaction from the Muslim world, including from Turkey which at the time was blocking Sweden’s NATO membership.Iraqi protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad twice in July 2023, starting fires within the compound on the second occasion. However Momika and co-protester Salwan Najem were in August Charged with agitation against an ethnic group on four occasions in Summer 2023.Stockholm’s district court was due to deliver its verdict in the case the very morning after Momika was killed.Later the same day, prosecutors dropped the charges.Momika had received a slew of death threats over his protests, which were livestreamed on his social media. Furthermore, In March 2024, Momika left Sweden to seek asylum in Norway, telling AFP that Sweden’s freedom of expression and protection of human rights was “a big lie”. Norway deported him back to Sweden only weeks later.