STOCKHOLM — Swedish prosecutors on Thursday sought the arrest a young Syrian man for killing Salwan Momika, who repeatedly burned copies of the Quran in 2023 and sparked outrage in the Muslim world.

Momika, an Iraqi Christian, was shot on January 29 in an apartment in Sodertalje, south of Stockholm. He died soon after in hospital.

“We have a clear picture of the sequence of events, and following extensive technical investigations and a review of the collected surveillance footage, we have requested that a person be remanded in custody,” senior prosecutor Rasmus Oman said in a statement.

Oman added that “at present, the whereabouts of the suspect are unknown.”

A court hearing will be held on Friday.

According to documents filed with the Sodertalje district court, the suspect was a 24-y

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