This year, the police have spent roughly SEK 43.5 million on guarding the Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan, leader of the far-right party Stram Kurs.
For example, the police effort in connection with the so-called Easter riots in Sveaparken in Örebro, where 71 police officers were injured, cost around SEK 800,000.
When Paludan returned after some time, the police had changed tactics and staffed up with, among other things, police horses, a helicopter and a borrowed water cannon.
The bill then landed at SEK 2.2 million, says Ekot.
But the efforts have also forced the police to re-prioritize, which has gone beyond ordinary activities as, among other things, crime prevention work has had to take a back seat, according to the radio.
Rasmus Paludan's election tour
The riots started during the Easter weekend in connection with the fact that Rasmus Paludan wanted to burn Islam's holy book, the Koran, during his election tour in Sweden.
Paludan visited, or announced that he would visit, Linköping, Norrköping, Örebro, Landskrona, Malmö and the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby, which was followed by violent riots with vandalism and violence mainly directed at the police.
During the summer, eight men were sentenced for the riots in Sveaparken in Örebro, with a prison sentence of between two and six years.
Today, Monday, another trial begins, this time against three men who have been charged with gross sabotage against blue light operations, writes Nerikes Allehanda.