The storming of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad may affect the police’s risk assessment for today’s planned Koran burning outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm.
– If we receive new information during the journey, there will be changed conditions to which we adapt, but at the moment I have no knowledge that we have a different resource intake than before, says Stockholm police spokesperson Mats Eriksson.
The police make continuous assessments of the situation and which risk factors can affect safety.
It is the same people who carried out the Koran burning outside a mosque in Stockholm earlier this summer who are behind Thursday’s planned Koran burning. The police have been in contact with them but do not want to say who else they have spoken to.
– Who we collaborate with depends on the arrangement, but I won’t go into which ones. We cooperate with the people, authorities and organizations we consider necessary, says Mats Eriksson.