The Swedish embassy in Iraq was temporarily repatriated to Stockholm for security reasons, the Swedish Foreign Ministry announced on Friday, a day after the legation was burned down by protesters.
“Security is a priority. The deployed personnel arrived in Sweden on a regular flight,” a ministry spokeswoman said.
On Thursday, Salwan Momika, a 37-year-old Iraqi refugee in Sweden, desecrated the Koran in front of the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, trampling on it. In June, he had already defiled it.
At the end of June, the same man burned several pages of the Muslim holy book in front of a mosque in the Swedish capital.
In response to the fact that the Swedish police had authorized this act, supporters of the influential Iraqi religious leader Muqtada al Sadr They demonstrated in Baghdad on Thursday, storming the Swedish embassy and setting it on fire just before dawn.