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ENGLAND FALLS TO THE MUSLIMS AS FRANCE AND SWEDEN HAVE - ‘Too Many Muslims’ — Ukrainian Refugees Fleeing War Scared of Living in Multicultural England
Jihadist Hacks Christian to Death with Machete in Spanish Church
ROME — A Moroccan illegal immigrant attacked Christians in two Spanish churches with a machete Wednesday, killing one and wounding at least four more.
Around 7:00pm, the 26-year-old assailant entered San Isidro church in Algeciras, southern Spain, where he attempted to force the faithful present to convert to Islam and then attacked the parish priest with his machete, gravely wounding him in the neck.
During the course of the attack, the Islamist reportedly shouted “Allahu akbar” and “Death to Christians.”
One eyewitness, Jesús Torres, said he heard the shouting and went running to the church where he found Father Antonio Rodríguez, the parish priest, “lying face down on the ground with his head bleeding.”
Neighbours place candles and flowers as tokens of grief in the Plaza Alta, Algeciras, where the lifeless body of a sacristan fell after the attack in his church on January 26, 2023 in Algeciras, Spain. The attack of a 25-year-old Moroccan citizen in the church of Nuestra Señora de La Palma and in the church of San Isidro de Algeciras has left pain and consternation among its neighbors. (Nono Rico via Getty Images)
Following the first aggression, the jihadist entered a second nearby church, Nuestra Señora de la Palma, as Mass was being celebrated.
On entering, the man began destroying various sacred objects with his machete and proceeded to climb onto the altar, where he was confronted by the sacristan, Diego Valencia, who tried to stop him.
The aggressor responded by stabbing Valencia in the abdomen. When Valencia tried to flee and left the church, the attacker followed him and finished him off with a machete blow to the head.
According to Spain’s Ministry of the Interior, shortly after the assault police disarmed and apprehended the assailant and he is currently in police custody.
Investigators have identified the man as “Yassin K” and are treating the incident as terror-related. They are also trying to determine whether the man was acting alone or as part of an Islamic terror organization.
A photographer records the memorials placed in the Plaza Alta, Algeciras, where a sacristan fell after the attack in his church on January 26, 2023 in Algeciras Cadiz, Spain. (Nono Rico via Getty Images)
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez sent his “deepest condolences” to the family of the sacristan who died in this “terrible attack.”
For its part, the local Muslim community in Algeciras denounced the incident as a “brutal and vicious attack.”
The mayor of Algeciras, José Ignacio Landaluce, has blamed the Ministry of the Interior for failing to deport the man prior to the attack, since he was known to be in Spain illegally but was not expelled from the country because of “administrative red tape.”
Landaluce has insisted on the need to streamline the bureaucracy “to be more effective.”
FOR MUSLIM MEN, DECLITTED MUSLIM WOMEN, AND WOMEN PERIOD ARE NOTHING MORE THAN BREEDING DOGS.
RAPE BY MUSLIMS, TYPICALLY GANG RAPE, IS A STAGGERING PROBLEM FOR COUNTRIES THAT INVITED THE MUSLIM INVASION THINKING THEY WOULD PROVIDE 'CHEAP' LABOR.
AS IS THE CASE OF THE MEXICAN OCCUPATION OF AMERICA, THAT 'CHEAP' LABOR IS STAGGERINGLY EXPENSIVE.
Sweden has one of the world’s worst recorded rape rates. In 2018, the state broadcaster SVT revealed that 58% of men convicted in Sweden of rape and attempted rape over the previous five years were born abroad. Some of the most brutal rape cases have involved Muslim or African immigrants.
Meanwhile, the Swedes themselves should recognize that
their naive dream of integrating Muslim migrants is incapable
of being realized, not for want of trying on the part of the
indigenous Swedes, but because of the attitudes of the
Muslims themselves, who are in no hurry to be employed, but
are happy to pocket whatever they are offered by the welfare
state, aid which they regard as a kind of proleptic Jizyah. It
would be folly for the Swedes to blame themselves for this
state of affairs. In fact, much the same outcome can be
observed in all the European countries where large numbers
of Muslims have been allowed to settle. But Sweden’s elites
have been particularly naïve, and allowed into their country,
during the last two decades, immigrants who now make up
close to 20% of the current population (and the Sweden-born
children of migrants make up another 12%).
Afghan Migrant Convicted of Murder was ‘Asking Out 14-Year-Old Girls’ – Report
An Afghan migrant that has now been convicted of multiple murders is said to have asked out a number of “14-year-old girls” while posing as a child in Britain.
Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, who has now been convicted of the murder of Thomas Roberts on March 12 last year, is said to have lied about his age to UK authorities, allowing him to attend school in Britain as a 14-year-old despite being an adult man.
It is reportedly the third murder Abdulrahimzai has been convicted of, with a Serbian court finding the migrant guilty in absentia of killing two men with an automatic Kalashnikov rifle in 2018.
According to a report by The Times, Abdulrahimzai managed to evade the Serbian authorities in the aftermath of the double murder, fleeing to the UK where he claimed he was a 14-year-old boy who required asylum.
Although the Afghan was reportedly an 18-year-old adult male at the time he entered the country, authorities were unable to question him, with Home Office guidelines at the time instructing officials that they could only treat him as being an adult if his appearance and demeanour “strongly suggested” he was aged 25 or over.
A process was reportedly undertaken to try and ascertain Abdulrahimzai’s real age, though this process was repeatedly dragged out by the migrant, who is said to have delayed his communication with authorities over the matter.
As a result — like a number of other adult migrants within Britain’s asylum system — Abdulrahimzai was reportedly handed over to a foster family, and allowed to attend school with other 14-year-olds.
“Not only was he around kids, he was asking out 14-year-old girls,” one mother of a child who is said to have attended school with the migrant told The Times.
“It’s wrong. It is absolutely petrifying,” she continued. “This man was classed as a child in care and the school had a duty of care to accept him. Their hands were tied.”
“The fault lies with the local authorities who put my children at risk,” she went on to say. “Where is the duty of care, not just to the pupils but to the staff?”
According to the British broadsheet, the true extent of Abdulrahimzai’s age and criminal background — which also included a conviction for drug dealing in Italy — only came to light after he stabbed Thomas Roberts to death in 2022.
The incident reportedly occurred after a brief argument between the two men that was reportedly started by Abdulrahimzai, with the migrant said to have stabbed Roberts twice during the dispute, which was over an electric scooter.
During a police investigation into the killing, a dental examination was conducted on Abdulrahimzai — who was claiming to law enforcement officers that he was 16 — which discovered that he was really 21 years old.
Aftera two-week trial a jury at Salisbury crown court took twelve hours of deliberation to conclude that Abdulrahimzai was guilty of Roberts’ murder.
“You started the conflict, and throughout you were the threatening aggressor,” judge Paul Dugdale told the migrant during sentencing. “In seconds you took the life of a thoroughly decent man, with a bright future who was loved greatly by so many people.”
“Your momentary act of extreme, senseless violence has left a family with a tragic loss that they will feel for the rest of their lives,” he went on to say.
He then handed Abdulrahimzai life in jail, with a minimum sentence of 29 years.
Ukrainian refugees displaced from their war-torn homeland have said that they feel scared in England as there are “too many Muslims” in multicultural cities like Birmingham.
An exposé report released this week from the British state-owned Channel 4 broadcaster on the status of the integration of Ukrainian refugees in the UK revealed that some of those forced to flee their country as a result of the war with Russia were shocked and even frightened by the ethnic makeup of the parts of England they found themselves living in, namely the paucity of native English people.
“Just over a hundred thousand Ukrainians have sought refuge in the UK – the vast majority of them women and children. But not all of them have found it easy to settle into a country where the ethnic diversity and cultural values are very different from what they’ve been used to back home,” the broadcaster reported.
Speaking to Channel 4’s communities editor Darshna Soni, a Birmingham woman who opened her house to a refugee under the Homes for Ukraine scheme, said that the refugee mother told her that she wanted to leave the area as it was dangerous because there were “too many Muslims and too many people with different skin colours”.
The Ukrainian mother also was fearful of sending her son to the local school in which the “majority of children happened to be black and Asian” and because there were “not enough white kids”.
“We hadn’t necessarily taken into consideration the cultural differences,” the Birmingham homeowner said.
“The majority of my neighbours are Muslims. A lot of them are Kashmiris or Pakistanis, Indians and they’re wonderful people and you just felt, if you just would sort of give them the time perhaps we’d come to the same conclusion,” the woman added.
The public broadcaster then interviewed Oksana, a refugee who said that she had come from the “best part of Kyiv (Kiev) to the worst area of Birmingham,” and that she was concerned over potential Islamic terrorism.
Channel 4’s Darshna Soni told the refugee that “lots of people here would feel very offended” because she was implying that Birmingham was not safe because it was racially “mixed”.
Oksana bluntly replied that her view was not from a position of ignorance, and that she had in fact “read police statistics”, had read news reports in English, and had heard “so many dangerous stories” from locals about Islamic terrorism and violence.
Over the past half-century, but particularly in the past 25 years, England as a whole and specifically urban hubs such as Birmingham, the nation’s second-largest city, have seen radical changes to the demographic makeup of the population. Much of this followed former Labour Party Prime Minister Tony Blair’s decision to open up the country to mass migration,a policy which was said by a former Blair advisor to be intended to “rub the Right’s nose in diversity”.
According to the once-in-a-decade Census conducted in 2021, Birmingham joined the likes of London, Manchester, Leicester, and Luton in becoming a minority-majority city, with ethnic minorities making up 51.4 per cent of its population. The white population in the city, meanwhile, fell from 78.5 per cent in 1991 — the last census conducted before Blair — to just 48.6 per cent in 2021.
The city has also become steadily more Muslim, with the latest census finding that 29.9 per cent of Birmingham residents described themselves as Muslim, compared to 21.8 per cent in 2011. In September, the city saw an outbreak of sectarian violence on its streets between groups of Muslims and Hindus following similar clashes in the multicultural city of Leicester.
The Ukrainian refugees are not alone in feeling unsafe in Birmingham, with a poll in 2018 ranking the city as the most dangerous in the UK, with 42 per cent of residents expressing fear of walking its streets, even during the day time.
That same year, a local man toldThe Guardian newspaper: “Stabbings happen unfortunately all the time”, adding: “Nowadays Birmingham is dangerous, especially the city centre.”
Amid the ongoing migrant crisis in Britain seeing hotels across the country filled to the brim with illegal migrants while their asylum claims are processed, private landlords are reportedly set to be offered long-term leases from the government to house the overflow of migrants.
Next week, the Lincolnshire County Council will reportedly consider a move towards expanding the migrant hotel scheme to private landlords in the county, who will be offered fiuve-year leases by controversial government contractor Serco, as well as paid repairs and maintenance of their properties in exchange for housing migrants, at taxpayer expense.
Currently, there are eight hotels and venues closed in the area because they have been filled to capacity with mostly young, single, male migrants, with the county regularly hitting the 500 migrant maximum over the past year.
The move, according to the Lincolnshire Echo, comes as national funding surrounding the migrant housing scheme is set to change. At present, local counties do not receive direct funding per asylum seeker they house, however, a measure set to go through parliament would see them receive some £3,500 per bed occupied by a migrant.
Under the scheme, local areas would only be expected to take in a number of migrants equivalent to 0.5 per cent of its local pollution, which would equate to around 500 for Lincolnshire. Yet, residents have already apparently had enough of the programme, with some in Skegness accusing local officials of turning their coastal town into a “dumping ground” for migrants.
Commenting on the plan to pay landlords, former editor of The Sun newspaper Kelvin MacKenzie told GB News’ Laurence Fox that it will likely serve to increase costs in the rental market, which he noted is already “through the roof” in much of Britain.
“What does that mean for the rents for everybody else because that’s an amount of housing which has disappeared and not available to the indigenous group?” he questioned.
“This is an opportunity for the Conservative party to lead and were they to solve it… they would get a reward at the polling booth,” MacKenzie added.
At present, there are around 40,000 migrants being put up at taxpayer expense in at least 419 hotels across the country at a cost of up to £7 million per day. With the government expecting an additional 65,000 illegal boat migrants to land in Britain this year, those figures are likely to continue to rise.
In December, Prime Minister Rishsi Sunak said that his government would seek to end hotel the accommodation programme for migrants and begin distributing them to military installations, holiday camps, and student accommodations.
However, there was no indication as to when this supposed ‘getting tough’ action would take place, or indeed that the government was actually intending on housing them in private residences.
In addition to the implications for rental prices, the plan also is fraught with security pitfalls, given that the Home Office has already admitted to losing track of hundreds of migrants staying at supposedly “secure” hotels and therefore are unlikely to be able to keep track of migrants in homes spread out through the country.
Like Eric Zemmour, like Michel Houllebecq, the French writer and essayist Laurent Obertone is alarmed about the future of France. He sees the country as a likely victim of the Great Replacement. By this is meant the replacement of the indigenous Europeans by non-European migrants. More specifically, in France the worry is that the French will be demographically overwhelmed by millions of Muslim migrants and their large families. Laurent Obertone considers the bleak possibility of a civil war in France in an article from November 2022, but of course nothing has changed in the intervening months: “‘The more time passes, the less reversible the situation will be,’ says prominent author Laurent Obertone on risk of civil war in France,” by Olivier Bault, Remix News, November 17, 2022:
Renowned French author Laurent Obertone presents a bleak future of a France in conflict in his books, but he says that such a reality is not far from fiction.
An exclusive interview with French journalist, essayist, and novelist Laurent Obertone, author of the prophetic bestseller novel “Guerilla – The day everything went up in flames” (in French: “Guérilla – Le jour où tout s’embrasa”) and of several essays on the violent and totalitarian drift of French society (“La France Orange Mécanique” – Clockwork Orange France, “La France Big Brother” – Big Brother France, etc.). Following its big success in France, the novel “Guerilla” has also been translated into German, Italian, Hungarian, and Japanese, and will soon be published in Spanish
You are the author of several bestsellers in France, including the famous “La France Orange mécanique,” published in 2013, which documents insecurity in France based on local press publications that are rarely picked up at the national level. You then published, among other titles, the novel “Guerrilla” in 2016. This novel takes place over three days in a France sinking into civil war after yet another violent incident between thugs and police in an “ethnic” suburb. These are undoubtedly your two most often quoted works and the most vilified by the French political and media mainstream, but many see the first one as a realistic assessment of the current situation and the second one as a plausible prognosis for the future. Very recently, while reacting to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin’s comments on the share of foreigners in crime, you said: “The path we are following today is one of chaos.” So, in your opinion, nothing has changed in France since the publication of “La France orange mécanique” and “Guerilla”?
Unfortunately, things have gotten pretty bad. Violence against persons has continued to rise sharply, reaching a record of 900 assaults per day, including 120 assaults involving bladed weapons. This is according to the Interior Ministry’s figures. Although they only take into account crimes for which complaints are filed, they still show 220 daily cases of sexual violence in France on average. Homicides and attempted homicides have been rising sharply in recent years. After decades of mass immigration, France has never had so many people in jail and so many illegal aliens on its territory.
The president of the republic in your novel “Guerrilla,” who gets brutally assassinated by thugs while trying to mediate, was very reminiscent of François Hollande, but he could just as easily remind us of Emmanuel Macron. The latter’s former Minister of the Interior Gérard Collomb, who warned against the risk of civil war because of mass immigration when he resigned in 2018, has criticized the welcoming of the Ocean Viking [a ship that rescues would-be immigrants in the Mediterranean and brings them to France] and its illegal immigrants in an interview for the Le Point weekly, saying that “by welcoming the Ocean Viking, we open a breach.” In this interview, he describes President Macron as being very much in favor of welcoming so-called “migrants,” i.e., illegal immigrants. Do you really think that the reception of the Ocean Viking opens a new breach and is a step further toward chaos in France?”
The Ocean Viking is just a drop in the bucket: In 2021, there were 121,554 applications for asylum filed, as well as 279,925 residence permits and 733,070 visas issued. That is well over a dozen Ocean Vikings per day. And all this in a perfectly legal way, without counting the irregular [illegal] immigrants who are very rarely deported. The French administration has been organizing such mass immigration for quite a long time, despite the fact the French people never wanted it and despite its consequences in terms of security, social cohesion, or standard of living being dramatic and incalculable.
Isn’t it encouraging, though, that a former interior minister is now sending out the same message as you?
“His courage comes too late. He now admits that he preferred to let a dangerous situation fester rather than risk telling the truth and therefore – it is he who says it – getting Marine Le Pen elected. This is exactly what prevents any debate and any serious political reaction to insecurity and immigration: There is permanent blackmail with the threat of the “far right,” leading in the end to realistic French people remaining silent so as not to be accused of “playing into the hands” of the National Rally.[Marine Le Pen’s party] Our elites have given up on the truth and prefer to lie to their people. Since they are unable to fulfill the basic missions of the state, their legitimacy is in question.
Trials were held this year in relation to the Paris and Nice terrorist attacks of 2015 and 2016, and it looks like there are fewer such attacks in France, or at least there are no longer large attacks with such death tolls. Don’t you think that France is winning the fight against Islamic terrorism? Or do you rather think that the threat of radical Islam and its jihadist-terrorist form, which we see playing an important role in the outbreak of the civil war described in your novel “Guerrilla,” remains at the same level?
“The fears of the intelligence community have not waned. Many people are listed as “risky” and apart from listing them, we are just waiting to see what happens. There are many isolated acts, committed by allegedly “disturbed” persons. These incidents make less noise in the media, but in the long run, they make just as many victims. And this “insecurity,” which translates into multiple “gratuitous” lynchings or attacks with bladed weapons, is a form of ordinary, trivialized terrorism that makes many of our cities dangerous.
In his book “Tout ce qu’il ne faut pas dire” (Everything you must not say) published the same year as “Guerilla,” gendarmerie general Bertrand Soubelet wrote: “In the large urban areas of France, there are stocks of illicit weapons that are the remnants of the wars in Central Europe (in the Balkans). What frightens us, the gendarmes, is that those stocks of weapons, which are lying dormant at the moment, will one day get into the hands of determined and organized people.” Since 2016, have the French authorities acted to recover these stocks of weapons, or are they still in the hands of these “rebellious, misguided children who have lost their way and are in need of guidance,” and among whom “the jihad does its business,” as they are described by General Soubelet?
“The French state is only strong with the weak, with those who fear its wrath, the police, and the justice system. This is absolutely not the case with these [Muslim] gangs and in the suburbs, which are breeding grounds for criminals and jihadists. Obviously, they have no respect for firearms legislation, which is only designed to disarm honest citizens, as honest citizens are the only real threat to our rulers.
In “Guerilla,” the French army does not intervene, or at least not massively, to restore order. This is because it is feared that the troops of immigrant and/or Muslim origin will join the mobs of armed “youth” who hate France and the “Gallic” French. Is this what you think would happen in the event of a civil war in France? Has the French army’s lack of cohesion deteriorated to such a point?
“This is a major fear of the military commanders, who have to deal with a lot of sectarian tensions in the army’s ranks. But the army is above all made unable to act by the moral prohibitions that bind our elites: it is morally unthinkable to send in the troops against our neighborhoods and the criminals who thrive there, who are often of French nationality and who have been presented to us for several decades as “victims of society.” Even the police have orders to restrict their pursuits and to avoid certain neighborhoods so as not to set fire to the powder.
President Macron and his current minister of the interior now want to intensify the distribution of “migrants” throughout the country, including in rural areas. Such migrant centers also play a role in France’s three-day descent into civil war described in your novel “Guerrilla.” It is a civil war against which many leading politicians, including Presidents François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron, have warned. How do you explain the fact that the French political class complains of the consequences but cherishes their causes so much?
What can be their motives?
“There is an old economic belief: The more people there are, the more the country’s GDP will increase, so there will be more pieces of the cake to share. Some business bosses are very keen on low-cost labor. But the most profound belief is moral: Our elites, still colonial in mentality, are convinced that human beings from all over the world are interchangeable, that all you have to do is give anyone a good school, welfare benefits, and a city park to make them good French citizens, even better than our dusty natives. This is obviously a fantasy: Countries are the products of peoples, not the other way around. But, as we have said, it is the nature of Utopians not to be bothered with such realities.
After the horrendous murder of Lola, that 12-year-old girl who was raped, tortured, and murdered by an Algerian woman who had been left free to move around despite a deportation order, you said that if nothing is done now, nothing will ever be done. One month later, do you see some positive change? Is anything being done now?
“Absolutely not. There are new victims all the time. Immigration is not questioned, and neither is the justice system. We all know very well that deportation orders are not going to be enforced any better than before. The talk is mostly about new ways to accommodate migrants. The more time passes, the less reversible the situation will be. Unless there is an economic or social accident, French society will continue its drift toward fragmentation and regression.
Oh dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, irrevocably dark.
But is Laurent Obertone wrong? Who could take issue with anything this French Cassandra, a vox clamantis in deserto, has just said? And what will it take for the French state, that listing ship of fools, to right itself in time?
In 2019, a Pakistani migrant was arrested for sexually assaulting a female off-duty police officer aboard the RER express train in the city, while last year another migrant, from Tunisia, was arrested after trying to shove another person under a train while allegedly yelling “Allahu Akbar.”
After all, when was the last time you saw an American academic discuss the Muslim persecution of Christians, or Iran’s treatment of religious minorities, or the inconsistency of Iranian authorities in persecuting Christians while complaining about “Islamophobia”? That’s right: never. That’s not what they do in the Antifa indoctrination factories known as universities these days; they’re too busy recording video messages applauding Iranian propaganda. ROBERT SPENCER
Here, one cannot help but remark how utterly different Pope Benedict and his successor, Pope Francis, are in their approaches to Islam. Whereas Benedict knew that without agreement on a first premise—namely, the (rational) nature of God—“dialogue” with Muslims would achieve nothing, Francis has become the champion of dialogue, and all apparently for show—rationalism and reality be damned.
Raymond Ibrahim, author of Defenders of the West, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Turkish Govt’s Anger as Qur’an Burnt in Protest Outside Embassy in Stockholm
The Turkish government has responded with outrage after anti-Islamisation campaigner Rasmus Paludan went ahead with his planned Qur’an burning protest in Stockholm on Saturday.
The burning of the Qur’an outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm on Saturday afternoon, one of dozens of such protests performed in European countries in recent years by strict anti-Islamisation campaigner Rasmus Paludan, went ahead on Saturday in the face of warnings by the Turkish government to Sweden that the event should be banned. A large police presence looked on as the book was set alight and eventually dropped to the ground.
As well as Paludan having been physically attacked for his protests in the past, there was also a counter-protest of pro-Erdogan Turks present, Reuters reported.
The Turkish government, which under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has drifted from being one of the most successfully secularised post-Islamic states in the world to having a de-facto Islamist stance, had warned the Swedish government in grave tones about the importance of banning the protest from taking place. Sweden is presently applying to join the NATO defence alliance, and Turkey as a member has the power to veto their acceptance.
News that the burning of the Qur’an had gone ahead in Sweden were met with counter-protests in Istanbul, with a group of around 200 gathering outside the Swedish embassy to shout slogans, make the now-familiar one-fingered salute, and burn the Swedish flag, so reports Reuters. The Turkish government said: “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the vile attack on our holy book … Permitting this anti-Islam act, which targets Muslims and insults our sacred values, under the guise of freedom of expression is completely unacceptable.”
The issue of the book burning is particularly focussed on the Swedish government by Turkey because Paludan, who points to the often violent response to his Qur’an burnings — and even ‘Qur’an throwings‘ — as evidence of his claim that Muslims can be intolerant and incompatible with Western values, applied to the Swedish government for permission to undertake the protest. This, in Ankara’s view, gave Stockholm a chance to block the protest which they chose not to take.
The demonstration came nearly a year after Paludan and his group Stram Kurs (Hard Line) carried out a series of other Qur’an burning protests across Sweden over Easter, which led to extensive rioting in multiple cities and attacks on police by outraged Muslims.
Rasmus Paludan burns a Koran outside of the Turkish embassy on January 21, 2023 in Stockholm, Sweden. Swedish authorities granted permission to a series of protests for and against Turkey amid the bid to join NATO, with far-right Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan – a controversial figure in Sweden – set to stage a Koran burning outside the Turkish embassy, as well as pro-Erdogan and pro-Kurdish groups protesting simultaneously. (Photo by Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images)
Rasmus Paludan burns a Koran outside of the Turkish embassy (Photo by Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images)
Several media outlets and independent journalist gather to see Rasmus Paludan stage a Koran burning (Photo by Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images)
A report released earlier this month claimed that Swedish police lacked both the manpower and the competency to deal with the riots, which saw hundreds of officers injured and many officers reporting mental health issues after being deployed to deal with the rioting.
Some officials later testified during a trial for one of the individuals who participated in the violence that they feared they were going to be killed during the riots.
Relations between Turkey and Sweden are already low, after months of considerable demands from Ankara for Stockholm to deport critics of Erdogan and alleged Terrorists to Turkey in return for the country accepting their bid to join NATO. There have been protests specifically on this issue. In early January, an effigy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was hung outside Stockholm city hall.
While Turkish officials demanded an investigation into the incident, Swedish prosecutors stated that no crime had been committed and no investigation would take place.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY – JANUARY 21: A protest against the burning of the Qur’an in Sweden is held in front of the Swedish Consulate on January 21, 2023. A group held a protest in front of the Swedish Consulate in Istanbul, protesting against the burning of the Quran in front of the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm by Rasmus Paludan, the leader of the Danish far-right Stram Kurs party. The Swedish flag was also burned during the protest. (Photo by Hakan Akgun/ dia images via Getty Images)
A protest against the burning of the Qur’an in Sweden is held in front of the Swedish Consulate on January 21, 2023 (Photo by Hakan Akgun/ dia images via Getty Images)
A protest against the burning of the Qur’an in Sweden is held in front of the Swedish Consulate on January 21, 2023 (Photo by Hakan Akgun/ dia images via Getty Images)
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