Sweden: Salwan Momika, Iraqi man who burned Quran, killed in shooting

Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]

“An Iraqi refugee in Sweden has been killed hours before a court ruling on his repeated burning of the Quran in anti-Islam demonstrations last year. Police announced on Thursday that they had made five arrests in connection with the murder of 38-year-old Salwan Momika, who was reportedly shot in a house in the town of Sodertalje near Stockholm the previous day. … The Stockholm District Court, which had been set to rule Thursday on whether Momika and co-defendant Salwan Najem were guilty of ‘agitation against an ethnic or national group,’ said that it had postponed its verdict to February 3 as a result of the former’s death. According to the charge sheet issued in August, the pair had desecrated the Quran, including burning it, while making derogatory remarks about Muslims – on one occasion outside a Stockholm mosque.” (01/30/25)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/30/iraqi-man-who-burned-quran-in-swedish-protests-shot-dead