Swedish flag. (Photo Facebook/Embassy of Sweden in Beirut)
BEIRUT — The Swedish Embassy in Lebanon told L'Orient Today on Thursday that an unknown man threw a Molotov cocktail at the embassy's headquarters on Wednesday evening without causing any damage or casualties. The perpetrator managed to escape, the spokesperson added, noting that incident occurred around 10 p.m.
On June 28, Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee in Sweden, burned some pages of a copy of the Quran in front of Stockholm's largest mosque. On July 24, two demonstrators set fire to a copy of Islam's holy book in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen. At the end of July, two men again set fire to a copy of the Quran in front of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm.
These acts have provoked a series of protests in Muslim countries around the world.
It was unclear if Swedish Ambassador Ann Dismorr was in the embassy at the time of the attack on Wednesday night. Dismorr recently returned to Lebanon, the embassy spokesperson said, having left on a "planned vacation" at the end of July.
At the end of July, hundreds of Hezbollah supporters gathered in the southern suburbs of Beirut and elsewhere in the country to protest the desecration of the Quran.