Some 26 police and 14 members of the general public had been injured, the spokesperson stated, including that police had arrested 26 people, together with 4 minors, in Linköping and Norrköping the place the violence started on Friday.
There could be "extra to return" as police analyse footage, the spokesperson added.
The riots erupted in a number of of Sweden's southern cities after burnings of the Koran by Rasmus Paludan, chief of the Danish far-right Stram Kurs (Onerous Line) social gathering.
Paludan deliberate and carried out the anti-Muslim demonstration, posting an image of himself on social media with a burning Koran and declared intentions of burning extra.
Police "do not know for certain but" if the riots started as a protest to the anti-Muslim rally led by Paludan, the spokesperson stated, including that the police had been "wanting into why and who." CNN has reached out to Stram Kurs for remark.
Within the metropolis of Norrköping, three individuals wanted medical consideration after being hit by police bullets throughout clashes between police and protesters.
"Three individuals appear to have been hit by ricochets and are actually being cared for in hospital. All three injured are arrested on suspicion of crime," police stated in an internet assertion, including not one of the accidents had been life-threatening.
The violence unfold south to town of Malmö on Saturday and continued all through Sunday, the spokesperson stated.
Police used weapons in opposition to the rioters, the spokesperson stated, however wouldn't affirm native media experiences that tear fuel was used.
Rioters might be seen hurling objects at police in video filmed by the Reuters information company Sunday, which additionally exhibits automobiles ablaze.
Police imagine that folks with hyperlinks to felony gangs took benefit of the scenario, in line with the spokesperson.
Officers noticed no additional unrest on Monday however will proceed to be current in Norrköping, they added.
Arab international locations condemn Koran burning
Arab international locations with Muslim majority populations have condemned the burnings of the Quran, as Saudi Arabia known as Paludan's actions a "deliberate abuse of the Holy Qur'an."
In an announcement printed on their state information company SPA on Sunday, the dominion known as the burnings "provocations and incitement in opposition to Muslims by some extremists in Sweden" and harassed "the significance of concerted efforts to unfold the values of dialogue, tolerance and coexistence, reject hatred, extremism and exclusion, and forestall abuse of all religions and sanctities."
In Iraq, the federal government urged the Swedish authorities to cease "provocative" actions."[The act] was thought-about a provocation to the emotions of Muslims and very offensive to their sanctities...this matter has critical repercussions on the relations between Sweden and Muslims typically," an announcement by the Iraqi Ministry of Overseas Affairs stated on Sunday.
In a tweet, the Emirati diplomatic adviser to the president, Anwar Gargash, rejected the "hatred" and "intolerance" in opposition to Islam.
The Egyptian Ministry of Overseas Affairs "condemned the intentional abuse of the Holy Qur'an" by the far-right, saying it's "among the many excessive right-wing practices that incite in opposition to immigrants typically and Muslims particularly."
Kuwait "expressed its utter condemnation and disgust in direction of the acts of desecration perpetrated by Swedish extremists in opposition to the Holy Quran," the state information company KUNA stated.
And Jordan's Ministry of Overseas Affairs stated the motion "contradicts all spiritual values and rules, human rights rules and fundamental freedoms, and fuels emotions of hatred and violence and threatens peaceable coexistence."
Extra reporting from Reuters.