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Are you free to demonstrate if people can show up and assault you while the police tell you it’s not their responsibility to help?
Clarification: You don’t need a permit to demonstrate in Sweden. They can still go and burn the Koran if they want to. Not getting a permit just means the police won’t help you out with diverting traffic etc etc. Police will only give permit if they can guarantee public order, and following recent events they don’t think they can for this demonstration. That in itself can be seen as a failure, but they’re still free to demonstrate, the police just won’t help them.