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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 12:35 AM Dec 2014

Swedish marchers denounce Christmas Day arson attack on mosque

AFP

Several hundred marchers turned out in a Swedish town on Friday to denounce an arson attack on a mosque that injured five people on Christmas Day as the traditionally tolerant country confronts the rising influence of the extreme right.

A firebomb was thrown through a closed window of the mosque in the central city of Eskilstuna on Thursday, injuring five of the nearly 70 worshippers inside, two of whom remained in hospital on Friday.

Answering calls by the Together for Eskilstuna Facebook page to denounce the attack, a large group of people converged on the damaged mosque to show their support.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/26/swedish-marchers-christmas-arson-mosque-eskilstuna

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