STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s security service, SAPO, will raise its assessment of the terrorist threat to the nation to the second-highest level, daily Dagens Nyheter (DN) reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources.
The threat level will be raised to level 4 from 3 on a scale of 1-5, DN reported.
SAPO in a statement said it would hold a news conference regarding national security later on Thursday. The security service did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Sweden and neighbouring Denmark have recently seen a string of protests in which copies of the Koran were burned or otherwise damaged by anti-Islam activists, prompting outrage in Muslim countries and fears of attacks at home.
(Reporting by Simon Johnson, editing by Terje Solsvik and Louise Rasmussen)
