[4][9][7] After being acquitted, the accused was immediately remanded to the custody of the Swedish Security police Säpo, where procedures were activated to open a case under the Foreign Immigration Control law to establish whether his residency status should be revoked and he should be deported to his country of origin on the grounds of having ties with ISIS and of posing a threat to national security.
[11][12] Swedish terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp dismissed the ISIS claim, but terrorism expert Hans Brun of King's College London, noted that given the paucity of press coverage, the question was how the ISIS news agency "got access to this information".
[11] In June 2017, German police arrested a 23 year old Syrian man identified only as Mohammed G., accusing him of being an Isis member and of passing on information to the Amaq News Agency since September 2015.
[13][3] German police accused Mohammad G. of communicating with the alleged perpetrator of the Malmö arson attack on social media.
[3] Following the arrest of Mohammad G., Shiraz Maher, deputy director of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King's College, London, said "We've all assumed that they are reading news reports, and then saying, 'Our guy did this.'