Updated 09:35 | Published at 09:15
A person who wants to hold a public gathering to burn Judaism’s holy book Torah and a Bible outside the Israeli embassy has been granted permission by the police, reports P4 Stockholm.
The burning will take place on Saturday outside the embassy in Stockholm.
According to previous information, a man in his 30s is behind the application. He is said to have stated that the demonstration is a response to the high-profile Koran burning outside Stockholm’s mosque at the end of June and “a symbolic gathering for the sake of freedom of expression”.
The burning of the Koran aroused great anger in the Muslim world and led, among other things, to large protests and the storming of the Swedish embassy in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad.
Israel’s ambassador to Sweden has said he is shocked and horrified by further book burnings.
“This is clearly an expression of hatred that must be stopped,” he wrote on Twitter in early July.