the five suspects released

The five people arrested after the murder on Wednesday in Sweden of Salwan Momika, who had sparked manifestations of anger in Muslim countries in 2023 by burning copies of the Koran in public, were released, the prosecutor in charge of ‘affair.

“Suspicions have been weakened and I no longer see any reason to keep these people in a state of arrest”said Prosecutor Rasmus Öman in a press release, while specifying that suspicions were not completely dismissed and the investigation continued.

These five people had been arrested on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, a few hours after the bullet murder of Salwan Momika, Iraqi refugee of 38 -year -old Christian confessions.

Acts of desecration of the Koran

Momika was killed Wednesday evening in a residential building in Sodertälje, 40 km southwest of Stockholm, when he was live on social networks. His murder may have been filmed.

“It was perfectly aware that a large -scale threat weighed on him. His head was put at prices, as he said himself “said his lawyer Anna Roth to the Swedish agency TT Thursday.

Relations between Sweden and several countries in the Middle East had deteriorated in the summer of 2023 due to the acts of desecration of the Koran perpetrated by Salwan Momika and his acolyte Salwan Najem.

At the end of June 2023, Momika had trampled on a copy of the Koran before burning a few pages, in front of the largest mosque in Stockholm. He had desecrated the Koran at least four times, and had appeared in trial with swim for “Agitation against an ethnic group”.

The judgment of the two men, who was to be rendered on Thursday, was postponed.