Salwan Mamika, an Iraqi immigrant who left Enormous protests When he burned a Koran In Stockholm in 2023, was killed, the Swedish prosecution Authority announced on Thursday morning.
Police said they had arrested five people and a murder investigation had been launched. Thursday, Mr. Mamika appeared before the district court of Stockholm on charges related to the 2023 incident, which led to demonstrations in Sweden and in the Muslim world.
Stockholm police, who refused to confirm that Mr. Mamika had been killed, said that there was a late shootout in Sodoutalje, a city near Stockholm, and that a man had died. The accusation authority then confirmed that Mr. Mamika was this man.
Mr. Mamika’s defense lawyer Anna Roth said he had received death threats. The authorities did not say if they thought that the murder was linked to the fire by Mr. Mamika of the Koran.
Mr. Mamika, a Christian, had put the Koran on fire during Eid al-Adha, a large Islamic party, outside a mosque in Stockholm. He said he was trying to raise awareness and murder of Christian minorities by Islamists in certain parts of the Muslim world.
“I will have the Swedish people of the dangers of this book,” said Mamika through a megaphone outside the mosque.
The response from the Muslim world was rapid and furious, with a large part of the criticisms of the Swedish authorities for not having stopped burning.
In Iraq, several hundred people stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad And define parts on fire. Iraq expelled Sweden’s ambassador and ordered his Sweden ambassador to withdraw from his embassy in Stockholm.
Egypt called the Koran Burning “A shameful act. “And Morocco recalled its ambassador to Sweden, His state news agency reported.
The Swedish authorities had condemned Mr. Mamika’s actions at the time, but the police granted a permit for his demonstration provided after a Swedish court judged that the prohibition of his encroach on the right to freedom expression.
The permit, however, did not allow him to burn objects, and Mr. Mamika was then accused of agitation against an ethnic or national group in four kicks, to embark and burn a Koran. He also made speeches with derogatory statements directed against Muslims and Islam, according to the indictment.
“The fact that declarations are made in a large place and disseminated is a prerequisite for incitement to racial hatred,” said Anna Hankkio, a Swedish prosecutor who initially brought the accusations against Mr. Mamika. “It is up to the district court to assess whether the Koran fire can also be considered an incentive against a group of people.”
Later that summer, Mr. Mamika again burned corans again, according to the indictment.
The burns of the Koran – and the horror and indignation that resulted in the Muslim world – triggered debates in Sweden, which had trouble allowing these demonstrations.
Before Mr. Mamika burns the sacred book, the Swedish authorities had denied other anti-quran demonstrations, citing concerns concerning the disturbance of public order. After the fire, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs called for the action of Mr. Mamika Islamophobic, and those responsible have warned that such demonstrations could affect the country’s national security policy. The internal security agency briefly raised its threat of terrorism to its most severe designation.
Salwan Najem, who joined Mr. Mamika during certain demonstrations and was also accused of having burned a Koran, was co-defendant in the case which was to be decided on Thursday. He should now receive his verdict on February 3, said the district court of Stockholm in a declaration.
Thursday, Mr. Najem expressed his fear, Publish a link on X To a story about the murder of Mr. Mamika.
“I’m next,” he wrote.
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