Third night of unrest in Sweden over far-right anti-Islam rally
“Southern
Sweden saw another night of unrest on Saturday over plans by an anti-Islam far-right political party to burn a Qur’an among other things.
Police said up to 100 mostly young people threw stones, set cars, tyres and dustbins on fire, and put up a barrier fence in the town of Landskrona after authorities moved a demonstration scheduled there by Danish party Stram Kurs to the nearby city of Malmö, about 45km (27 miles) to the south.
The situation calmed in Landskrona by late Saturday but remained tense, police said, adding no injuries were reported in the action.
Kim Hild, spokesperson for police in southern Sweden, had said earlier on Saturday that police
would not revoke permission for the Landskrona demonstration organised by party Stram Kurs
because the free-speech threshold for doing that is very high in Sweden.
The right of the protesters “to demonstrate and speak out weighs enormously, heavily and it takes an incredible amount for this to be ignored,” Hild told Swedish news agency TT.”