A person stole a Koran from a mosque near the French city of Lyon and set it on fire at the weekend, religious leaders and a police source said on Tuesday.

The Koran Man Who Burned Quran in Stockholm Is Killed The action by Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant, set off protests across the Muslim world in 2023. He had received death threats, his lawyer said.

Credit: Crown Prosecution Service. The burning of a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London amounted to a religiously aggravated public order offence, a judge has found.

A student wears a graduation cap with a verse from Koran written on it during the Commencement Ceremony at Columbia University in New York on May 21, 2025. JEENAH MOON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images ...

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Giving his verdict, Judge McGarva said: “Your actions in burning the Koran where you did were highly provocative, and your actions were accompanied by bad language in some cases directed toward ...

The cost of defending freedom can come at a much higher price than the £240 fine received by Coskun. The Swedish Koran burner, Salwan Momika, was murdered in Stockholm earlier this year.

A man suspected of stealing a Koran from a mosque near the French city of Lyon and then burning it was arrested on Tuesday evening, the public prosecutor's office said.

Hamit Coskun arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court, central London, where was convicted of a religiously aggravated public order offence after burning a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in ...

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