Kim Hild, a police spokeswoman in southern Sweden, said police would not revoke permission for a planned demonstration by the Danish right-wing Stram Kurs party in the southern town of Landskrona on Saturday because the threshold was too high in Sweden. who values freedom of speech. The right of protesters “to protest and speak out is very important and it takes an incredible amount to ignore it,” Hildt told Swedish news agency TT. Police said, however, that the rally would be moved to another unknown location, according to TT. Stram Kurs leader Rasmus Paludan was also planning a Koran burning in Landskrona, the agency said. Hilde said police were preparing for the demonstration and possible violence with additional resources “given what has happened in recent days” in the Nordic country. Two days of riots in various Swedish cities and towns, sparked by the Stram Kours demonstration, culminated in violent clashes in Orebro late Friday that injured 12 police officers and set fire to four police vehicles. Videos and photos of chaotic scenes in Orebro show police cars burning and protesters throwing stones and other objects at riot police. Clashes have also been reported in recent days in Stockholm and in the cities of Linkoping and Norrkoping – all locations where the Stram Kurs was either planning or holding demonstrations. Paludan, a Danish lawyer who is also a Swedish citizen, set up the Stram Kurs or “Hard Line” in 2017. The party’s anti-immigration and anti-Islam agenda states that “The Stram Kurs is the most patriotic political party in Denmark “.
