(European Conservative) The shooting this week of 38-year-old Iraqi Christian refugee Salwan Momika might be linked to a foreign power, Stockholm officials have claimed.
Muslim demonstrations erupted across Europe and beyond in recent years as a result of the anti-Islam campaigner’s burning of the Quran. He was shot dead in Södertalje on Wednesday while livestreaming on social media.
The killing came amid what the Wall Street Journal described as “a surge in gang violence in Sweden, which foreign actors have exploited to recruit agents to attack perceived opponents on Swedish soil.”
Five people have been arrested in connection to the shooting, and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Thursday that “there is obviously a risk that there is a connection to a foreign power.”
