The police reported on her website that four police cars were burned and at least four police officers and a private person were injured as protesters flew stones and large groups attacked police creeps and strawmed fences. The demonstration, which had received permission from the police, was organized by Rasmus Paludan, leader of the Danish far-right political party Hard Line. The police dismantled the demonstration to calm down the situation and later in the evening he said that most antisoders abandoned the area. Some counter-protests against the planned Paludan protests, some of which were canceled, turned violent in Swedish cities this week. The Swedish news agency TT reported that violence broke out in Stockholm’s Rinkeby suburb after Paludan set fire to a copy of the Koran there earlier on Friday. Police said some of the officers taken to the hospital had, among other things, suspicious fractures in their hands. (Report by Anna Ringstrom · Edited by Sandra Maler)
