Stockholm, Sweden | AFP | A plan by a far-right group to publicly burn copies of the Koran sparked violent clashes with counter-protesters on Saturday night, police said Sunday.
“There were fires in various places overnight in Malmö,” security forces said in a statement.
Several containers were set on fire, as well as a bus and a car.
There are about 20 complaints of vandalism and some people were slightly injured, police said.
The incidents erupted after a rally by the “Hard Line” anti-immigration and anti-Islam movement led by Danish-Swedish citizen Rasmus Paludan, who is on a tour of Sweden that has led to several clashes, and police and counter-protesters in the last days.
On Thursday and Friday, about 12 police officers were injured in clashes with participants in counter-demonstrations against Paludan.
Several protests broke out on Saturday in different neighborhoods of Malmö where protesters threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the police.
Paludan indicated that he wants to demonstrate in two other Swedish cities, but these marches did not receive police authorization.
