{"id":64098,"date":"2025-01-30T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=64098"},"modified":"2025-01-30T15:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:10:33","slug":"momika-who-burned-quran-in-sweden-shot-dead-ahead-of-court-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/momika-who-burned-quran-in-sweden-shot-dead-ahead-of-court-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Momika, who burned Quran in Sweden, shot dead ahead of court verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"

STOCKHOLM (Reuters): An Iraqi refugee and anti-Islam campaigner, Salwan Momika was shot dead in Sweden hours before he was due to receive a court verdict following a trial over burning the Holy Quran,<\/a> and five people were arrested over the shooting on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Salwan Momika, 38, was shot in a house in the town of Sodertalje near Stockholm, public broadcaster SVT reported, citing unnamed police sources.<\/p>\n

Momika had burned copies of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, in public demonstrations in 2023 against Islam.<\/p>\n

A Stockholm court had been due to sentence Momika and another man on Thursday in a criminal trial over “offences of agitation against an ethnic or national group,” but said the announcement of the verdict had been postponed.<\/p>\n

A police spokesperson confirmed a man was shot dead in Sodertalje, but gave no other details.<\/p>\n

The other defendant in the same court case was giving interviews on Thursday and posted a message on X, saying: “I’m next”.<\/p>\n

The Security Service said that police were leading the investigation but “we are following the development of events closely to see what impact this may have on Swedish security,” a spokesperson told Reuters.<\/p>\n

Swedish media reported that Momika was streaming live on TikTok at the time he was shot. A video seen by Reuters showed police picking up a phone and ending a livestream that appeared to be from Momika’s TikTok account.<\/p>\n

Sweden in 2023 raised its terrorism alert to the second-highest level and warned of threats against Swedes at home and abroad after the Koran burnings, many of them by Momika, outraged Muslims and triggered threats from jihadists.<\/p>\n

While the Swedish government condemned the wave of Koran burnings in 2023, it was initially regarded as a protected form of free speech.<\/p>\n

Sweden’s migration agency in 2023 wanted to deport Momika for giving false information on his residency application, but couldn’t as he risked torture and inhumane treatment in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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