(GB News) A man has been arrested after appearing to burn a Koran in central Manchester this afternoon.
The man, 47, was arrested on suspicion of a “racially aggravated public order offence” following an incident near the city’s Glade of Light Memorial, a Greater Manchester Police spokesman told GB News.
The 47-year-old remains in custody after the incident next to the memorial — which commemorates the victims of the 2017 Manchester Arena terrorist attack.
The “burning” was live-streamed on social media just days after Salwan Momika, a Swedish anti-Islam activist who burned the Koran in 2023, was shot dead in an apartment near Sweden’s capital Stockholm on January 29.