(AFP) Swedish police said Wednesday they had granted a permit for a protest outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, with media reporting the organisers planned to burn the Muslim holy book.
The protest, scheduled for Thursday, comes just weeks after a man set fire to pages of the Koran outside Stockholm’s main mosque — leading to widespread outrage and condemnations around the world.
Stockholm police told AFP they had granted a permit for a “public gathering” outside the Iraqi embassy, but did not wish to give further comments on what the protesters were planning.
According to news agency TT, the organisers had written in their application that the protesters wanted to burn the Koran and the Iraqi flag, and told the news agency that the same two people who participated in the June protest would be staging the new one.
