Attackers paint swastikas inside Stockholm mosque

Unidentified attackers burst into a Stockholm mosque, just after morning prayers, spray-painting swastikas and hate speech on the walls and throwing firecrackers, police said.

 

Unidentified attackers burst into a Stockholm mosque, just after morning prayers, spray-painting swastikas and hate speech on the walls and throwing firecrackers, police said.

All of the worshippers had left the mosque in Bredäng in southern Stockholm at the time of the attack except one, and he was shaken but unharmed, mosque officials told Swedish news agency TT.

Attackers sprayed the words “kill Muslims” on the walls next to swastikas. Police said they were investigating the incident as vandalism and a hate crime. No arrests had been made several hours after the attack.