(Local) The riots that rocked Swedish cities over the Easter holidays were nothing to do with religion or ethnicity, but instead come down to class, the joint leader of Sweden’s Green Party has told the Local in an interview.
Ahead of a visit to the school in Rosengård that was damaged in the rioting, Märta Stenevi said that neither the Danish extremist Rasmus Paludan, who provoked the riots by burning copies of the Koran, nor those who rioted, injuring 104 policemen, were ultimately motivated by religion.
“His demonstration had nothing to do with religion or with Islam. It has everything to do with being a right extremist and trying to … raise a lot of conflict between groups in Sweden,” she said of Paludan’s protests.
