Global Courant
ANKARA
A hate speech investigation was launched against the Iraqi-born attacker who burned the Quran in front of a mosque in Sweden’s Södermalm district on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm applied to the Swedish authorities to prevent such attacks.
Anadolu correspondent said that the attacker of Iraqi origin, who tore up a few pages of the Qur’an in which he had put bacon in and burned, and who introduced himself as “secular”, claiming that his aim was to “criticize Islam”, died. A journalist named “Atheist” praised the far-right Islamophobic Rasmus Paludan, who had previously committed the burning of the holy book, and saw Islam as a threat to Swedish values.
After the attack, the Swedish police launched a hate speech investigation against Islamophobes.
The Turkish Embassy in Stockholm, like previous similar actions, took the necessary steps before the Swedish authorities to prevent the attack.
In this context, the Embassy contacted the embassies of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) members Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Morocco, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Palestine in Stockholm, and sent a joint message to prevent the incident. Ambassador Jan Knutsson to Swedish Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, National Police chief Anders Thornberg, parliament speaker Andreas Norlen and Prime Minister’s Chief Foreign and Security Adviser Henrik Landerholm.
The previous applications regarding the burning of the Qur’an in front of the Stockholm Embassies of Turkey and Iraq were rejected by the Swedish police, but this decision was annulled by the court.
Swedish police did not reject the activist’s application today.
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