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Sweden identifies suspect in Quran-burner murder case

A suspect has been identified in the murder of an anti-Islam campaigner in Sweden in January.

Axar.az informs, citing Reuters, “We have a good picture of the sequence of events and after extensive technical investigations and review of obtained surveillance footage,” the prosecutor said in a statement. “At present, the suspect’s whereabouts are unknown.”

The statement did not name the suspect.

Court documents obtained by Reuters showed the suspect was a 24-year-old Syrian man who lived in Sweden at the time of the murder. It said Quran-burner Salwan Momika had been shot three times and the killing “had been preceded by careful planning.”

A detention hearing was set for Friday in a district court - a procedure under Swedish law prior to the issuance of an international wanted notice for the suspect.

Momika, an Iraqi refugee who frequently burned and desecrated copies of the Quran at public rallies, was shot dead in a town near Stockholm hours before the verdict in a trial where he stood accused of “offences of agitation against an ethnic or national group.”

Date
2025.10.16 / 14:12
Author
Axar.az
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