{"id":252493,"date":"2022-04-21T05:50:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T05:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252493"},"modified":"2022-04-22T06:55:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T06:55:05","slug":"third-night-of-unrest-in-sweden-over-far-right-anti-islam-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252493","title":{"rendered":"Third night of unrest in Sweden over far-right anti-Islam rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A city bus burns on the streets of Malmo<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Associated Press \u2013 April 17, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Unrest broke out in southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/sweden\">Sweden<\/a> late on Saturday despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Qur\u2019an among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure.<\/p>\n<p>Scuffles and unrest were reported in the southern town of Landskrona after a demonstration scheduled there by the Danish right-wing party Stram Kurs party was moved to the nearby city of Malm\u00f6, 27 miles south.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of Stram Kurs numbering up to 100 mostly young people threw stones, set cars, tires and dustbins on fire, and put up a barrier fence that obstructed traffic, Swedish police said. The situation had calmed down in Landskrona by late Saturday but remains tense, police said, adding no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>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 the Stram Kurs party, because the free-speech threshold for doing that is very high in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>The right of the protesters \u201cto demonstrate and speak out weighs enormously, heavily and it takes an incredible amount for this to be ignored\u201d, Hild told Swedish news agency TT.<\/p>\n<p>Since Thursday, clashes have been reported also in Stockholm and in the cities of Link\u00f6ping and Norrk\u00f6ping \u2013 all locations where Stram Kurs either planned or had demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday evening, violent clashes between demonstrators and counter-protesters erupted in the central city of \u00d6rebro ahead of Stram Kurs\u2019 plan to burn a Qur\u2019an there, leaving 12 police officers injured and four police vehicles set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/17\/third-night-of-unrest-in-sweden-over-far-right-anti-islam-rally\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of what actually provoked the unrest, political violence and civil unrest are now a regular feature of life in Sweden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":252495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252506,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252493\/revisions\/252506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/252495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}