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Footage shows the moment the car of the head of an anti-Islam group in Norway crashes into traffic after he burned a copy of the Koran outside a mosque.
Lars Thorsen, head of the group Stop Islamization of Norway (SIAN), was driving to the capital Oslo on Saturday afternoon when the attack happened.
Footage recorded by activists from the anti-immigration group Alternativ Media shows the Mercedes B-Class car crashing into the activist’s SUV, spinning it on the road and then flipping it upside down.
The five occupants of the SUV, including Thorsen, suffered minor injuries and one of them had to be taken to hospital.
The driver of the Mercedes and a passenger, both women, were arrested for willful bodily harm.
Police later said the driver and her female passenger, who has not been named, had been present minutes earlier when Thorsen and his supporters burned copies of the Islamic holy book outside a mosque on the outskirts of Oslo.
The police said that after the extremist’s discriminatory actions, fights and insults started among the crowd.
So the radical SIAN protesters had taken the car and left, but were followed by a group of people and alternative media activists.
In the recorded footage, the woman can be seen driving the car reaching Thorsen on the E6 motorway heading towards Oslo from Mortensrud.
The woman rams his car several times and then pulls up in front trying to get Thorsen to stop, road piracy style.
Thorsen passes him but then loses control and falls and overturns in a ditch on the side of the road.
Footage after the incident shows Thorsen and his companions crawling out of the car, in some cases breaking the windows.
The police arrested the driver of the vehicle that caused the collision with charges of serious bodily injury.
Her passenger was arrested a day later and has also been charged with complicity in causing grievous bodily harm.
The NRK network reported that Thorsen had applied for permission to burn the Koran on Saturday, but this was denied by the police due to the risk of riots.
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