Sweden arrests five suspects over terrorist attack plan

Swedish authorities arrested on Tuesday five suspects of planning a terrorist attack in three Swedish cities.

The Swedish security services believe that the Islamist attackers are linked to  Islamist extremism networks on an international level. The Swedish security agency claims that “this is a retaliation attack to the incident of the burned Quran.”

 In January, far-right Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan burned a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish embassy in stockholm.

The incident triggered international outrage of the muslim community, various protests were called for in front of swedish embassies in Turkey, Iran and other Muslim nations

Turkish president Erdogan is now demanding Sweden to change their laws. According to Swedish law, burning a holy book is legal since it falls under the right of freedom of speech. 

Susanna Trehörning, Deputy Head of the Counterterrorism Unit at Säpo said that “threats targeting Sweden are significantly increasing after what happened.”