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A man has admitted to having established a copy of the sacred book of high and live Islam. social networks.

Martin Frost started the Qur’an pages near the Glyade of Light Memorial at the 22 victims of 2017 Manchester Arena bombardment, before setting fire.

He advertised it in advance and transmitted it on social networks on Saturday, burning the pages before leaving them to the ground and trampling them.

Metro He has chosen not to share images of the book that is burned, which is seen as a blasphemous act by Muslims, since they consider that the Qur’an is the literal word of God.

Frost, 47, was arrested shortly after. He appeared today in the Court of Magistrates of Manchester, where he admitted a crime of racially aggravated public order.

It was told to the court that the “trigger” of his actions was the death of his daughter in the Israeli conflict. He was also filmed holding an Israel flag before establishing pages of the Qur’an.

Robin Lynch, prosecuting, said Frost was surrounded by a multitude of followers when he began to start pages of the Qur’an.

An passerby tried to intervene, and Frost shouted: ‘This is what I think of your Koran. Islam does not take place in civil society.

Frost said that one of the pages that started from the book ‘talks about pedophilia’, according to the court, and lit it before throwing the rest of the book into the nearby river.

The defendant told the officers that he was demonstrating solidarity with another anti -islam activist in Sweden, which was recently Taken dead during a live broadcast After burning a Quran in 2023.

An impact statement of the victim of the person who tried to intervene said: ‘He was quite shocked, disgusted and offended.

‘I am Muslim. I still can’t believe someone doing this.

‘When he began to burn the Qur’an, my heart was about to leave. This is the biggest emotion I have felt. ‘

Zoe Earle, defending Frost, said: ‘He is extremely distressed by the anguish that has caused others as a result of this. You need more help and support.

‘What triggered what happened recently is that his daughter was killed. His death has had a significant impact on his mental health.

“Your mental health is clearly decreasing in the last six months.”

Frost, from Stretford, Greater Manchester, declared himself guilty of a single position of rankly or religiously aggravated harassment or alarm to Fahad Iqbal, by showing some writing, sign or other visible representation that was threatening, abusive or insulting, thus causing Another person or other harassment, alarm or anguish.

The court heard that Frost has 20 previous sentences for 47 crimes, but no nature similar to the crime of public order on Saturday.

Judge Margaret McCormack requested a report prior to the sentence before approving the sentence.

She told Frost, who was crying while standing at the dock, who regretted the loss of her daughter, but added: ‘The Qur’an is a sacred book for Muslims and treating him as you did is cause extreme anguish.

“This is a tolerant country, but we don’t tolerate this behavior.”

She rescued Frost with the condition that she does not publish anything else on social networks and will pass the sentence on April 29.

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