When he did, he mumbled, being shy. His father taught Koranic chant there, so in his spare time Ibrahim would do the same, unobserved in some corner, muttering over the holy book.
The Danish foreign ministry said that burnings of the Quran and other incidents that insult other cultures and religions play into the hands of extremists and therefore pose a security threat.
Thursday's incident came a month after the same man burnt a copy of the Quran outside Stockholm's main mosque sparking a diplomatic dispute between Sweden and several Muslim majority countries.