2024-01-07T16:58:58+00:00
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/ The Swedish Security Service decided, on Sunday, to keep the terrorist threat level high at level four on a five-point scale.
The security service stated in a statement reported by the Russian “RT Arabia” website that the reason for maintaining the high-risk security level is the “developments” that the country and the world are going through, in which “extremists who love violence participate and activities of external forces that threaten security are taking place.”
“Sweden’s image as an anti-Islamic state has contributed significantly to the increase in the terrorist threat resulting from violent Islamism,” said Charlotte von Essen, head of the security service. “Sweden continues to be viewed as a priority target. The threat comes from individual and group actors that can be controlled from outside the country.” “The country.”
The Swedish Security Service believes that although “the threat from violent Islamic extremism remains, the risk of attacks by right-wing violent extremism as well as by individuals operating on the basis of an anti-state ideology also remains,” according to von Essen. The dangerous security situation will continue for a long time.
Last summer, demonstrations took place in Sweden during which a copy of the Holy Qur’an was burned. This caused a sharp negative reaction from the population and authorities of Islamic countries, and on August 17, the terrorist threat level was raised to the penultimate level.