JBY ROBERT SPENCER11
“Verdict: Koran burning must be allowed,” translated from “Dom: Koranbränning borde tillåtits,” Expressen, June 12, 2023:
It was wrong for the police in Stockholm to stop Koran burnings outside the Turkish and Iraqi embassies in February. That was the view of the Administrative Court, and the Court of Appeal is also coming to the same conclusion.
“The Court of Appeal considers that the order and security problems referred to by the Police Authority do not have a sufficiently clear connection to the planned gatherings or their immediate surroundings to refuse permission,” says Court of Appeal president Stefan Holgersson, who presides over the case, in a press release.
Koran burning denied
It was in mid-February this year that the police denied two Koran burnings in a short time outside the Turkish and Iraqi embassies. The applications for permission to organize public gatherings to burn copies of the Koran were made by an association and a private individual, after far-right politician Rasmus Paludan had held his Koran burning outside the Turkish embassy the same month.The rejected applications were appealed, but the police stood their ground and said that there is a risk of terrorist acts if Koran burnings are allowed and carried out.
The police justified their decision to deny Koran burnings by the fact that Säpo made a security assessment that the threat picture against Sweden has been affected by previous Koran burnings and that the risk of attacks increased if future Koran burnings were allowed.
The administrative court concluded that there was no legal support for denying permission. In a press release in April this year, they wrote:
“The Administrative Court does not consider that the circumstances that have formed the basis of the Police Authority’s decision are sufficient to deny the permits in the two cases in question. The police authority’s decision must therefore be annulled”.
The police authority appealed the sub-instance’s decision to the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal’s judgment has now come in the current cases – and follows the same line as the Administrative Court.
The decision can be appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court.
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