Riots during the Easter weekend

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Several violent riots during the Easter weekend

Violent riots have taken place in Linköping, Norrköping, Stockholm and Örebro as a reaction to the Danish right-wing extremist party Stram kurs announcing that they would hold a meeting in the towns.

Today, a Koran burning has been planned in Landskrona, but the police have forced the organizer to move it to another location.

Nils Stahle

SVT

6 min

Worried at Koppargården in Landskrona on Saturday afternoon.

Photo: Johan Nilsson / TT

Nils Jönsson

SVTReporter

11 min

Stenorsvägen in Landskrona at 3 pm on Easter Eve.

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Ylva Esping

SVT

12 min

Police and counter-protesters clash at Koppargården in Landskrona on Easter afternoon, reports TT.

Rasmus Paludan, party leader of the Danish right-wing extremist party Tight Course, had received permission for a rally in Landskrona, but the police moved the rally on Saturday.

Photo: Johan Nilsson / TT

Linda Fridh

SVTreporter

19 min

Stones have been thrown at a police bus.

Ylva Esping

SVT

25 min

Masked people set fire to garbage cans at Stenorsvägen in Landskrona on Easter afternoon.

Photo: SVT

Linda Fridh

SVTreporter

27 min

Burning rubbish bins together with the building fence block Stenorsvägen in the Silvergården area and motorists are forced to turn around.

- You hear continuous bangs and see a plume of smoke in the air, says SVT Helsingborg's reporter Minna Korsgren on site in Landskrona.

Ylva Esping

SVT

29 min

Masked men have pulled out and set fire to rubbish bins on Stenorsvägen in Landskrona.

Burning garbage cans block the road.

Ylva Esping

SVT