Sweden has arrested five people on suspicion of preparing an attack linked to the burning of a copy of the Koran in January

Swedish intelligence announced on Tuesday the arrest of five people on suspicion of preparing a "terrorist attack" in Sweden in response to the Swedish-Danish extremist Rasmus Paludan's burning of a Quran in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm in January.

"The current case is one of several that the Swedish Security Service has been working on, in relation to the burning of the Qur'an," Susanna Trehorning, deputy head of the counter-terrorism unit at the ISA, said in a statement, noting that the suspects are linked to "Islamic extremism" in the world. .