After being chased down the highway, the leader of a grupo antiislam from norway was the subject this Saturday of a spectacular aggression while he was in his car, minutes after burning a Koran in a suburb of Oslo.
Norwegian police confirmed that they arrested two people, including the driver of a vehicle who is accused of having voluntarily collided with the 4×4 of Lars Thorenthe leader of the radical group “Stop the Islamization of Norway” (SIAN), until it overturned.
The five passengers in the 4×4 were slightly injured and one of them had to be taken to hospital, according to police.
In a video posted on facebook and recorded by supporters of his, Lars Thoren and other activists are seen driving to Mortensrud, a suburb of Oslo where a large Muslim community lives.
The activists then place a Koran in the middle of an intersection and set it on fire, provoking the inhabitants of the area, who try to put out the flames.
The scene gives rise to protests and several people gather in the area, such as a woman, who grabs the burned book and begins to insult the anti-Muslim militants, before getting into a gray Mercedes and occupying the passenger seat, the agency reports. AFP.
At that moment, the activists’ camouflaged 4×4 leaves the scene, but seconds later it is overtaken by the gray Mercedes, which collides with it, slightly, on the access road to the highway.
But, after having tried to stop the 4×4 by following it closely, the Mercedes accelerates and begins to chase the off-road vehicle at high speed, until colliding with it in the middle of the E6 motorway and causing it to overturn.
The video was recorded live for several hours on Facebook and it shows the supporters of the radical militants helping the five passengers, who were able to get out of the car with difficulty, until the arrival of the police.
“We have reason to believe that the SIAN vehicle was intentionally run over,” Oslo police said in a statement.
The driver, prosecuted for “intentional collision and attempted aggravated violence”, was arrested, as well as the passenger.
The incident came a week after a shooting in central Oslo, which investigators called an “act of Islamist terrorism”.
The practice of burning Korans in neighborhoods with a strong Muslim population has spread among far-right anti-Islam militants in Scandinavia in recent years.
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