https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Four members of a Nazi organization have been apprehended in connection with an incident at Stockholm's Kulturhuset. https://www.thelocal.se/20180928/four-neo-nazis-apprehended-for-attaching-banner-to-stockholm-culture-centre Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:29:07 +0200 four-neo-nazis-apprehended-for-attaching-banner-to-stockholm-culture-centre There was a record amount of neo-Nazi activity in Sweden during 2017, according to a new report by anti-racism foundation Expo. https://www.thelocal.se/20180427/2017-sets-new-record-for-neo-nazi-activity-in-sweden Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:29:49 +0200 2017-sets-new-record-for-neo-nazi-activity-in-sweden Google said it was taking measures in response to criticism against the internet giant for allowing the spread of anti-Semitic propaganda through various search results, which had triggered outrage in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20180313/google-slammed-in-sweden-for-showing-neo-nazi-propaganda-in-top-search-results Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:14:28 +0100 google-slammed-in-sweden-for-showing-neo-nazi-propaganda-in-top-search-results A Swedish court on Tuesday convicted the head of a neo-Nazi movement of "incitement to racial hatred" more than a year after he held a speech at a Stockholm rally that turned violent. https://www.thelocal.se/20180102/swedish-court-convicts-neo-nazi-leader-of-inciting-hatred-at-rally Tue, 02 Jan 2018 16:06:26 +0100 swedish-court-convicts-neo-nazi-leader-of-inciting-hatred-at-rally Sweden's security police Säpo have raised the alarm over a dad whom they believe is in the process of radicalizing his own son, who is around the age of ten. https://www.thelocal.se/20171020/sweden-security-police-warn-of-dad-radicalizing-his-young-son Fri, 20 Oct 2017 17:30:23 +0200 sweden-security-police-warn-of-dad-radicalizing-his-young-son Police from across Sweden will be called to Gothenburg to help manage a planned neo-Nazi demonstration in the centre of the city. https://www.thelocal.se/20170927/extra-police-called-to-gothenburg-to-manage-neo-nazi-demonstration Wed, 27 Sep 2017 12:58:01 +0200 extra-police-called-to-gothenburg-to-manage-neo-nazi-demonstration Swedish police have hit back at criticism after a neo-Nazi group was allowed to march through the streets of central Gothenburg despite not having an official permit to demonstrate. https://www.thelocal.se/20170918/police-defend-decision-to-let-neo-nazis-march-through-gothenburg Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:51:33 +0200 police-defend-decision-to-let-neo-nazis-march-through-gothenburg Sweden's main organization for Jews is appealing a police decision to grant the openly racist neo-Nazi group the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) permission to stage a march near a synagogue in Gothenburg on September 30th. https://www.thelocal.se/20170911/swedish-jews-to-appeal-neo-nazi-march-permit-synagogue Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:10:32 +0200 swedish-jews-to-appeal-neo-nazi-march-permit-synagogue Several Swedish far-right extremists took part in a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in the US, where one counter-protester was killed and at least 19 injured, writes the Dagens Nyheter daily. https://www.thelocal.se/20170815/swedes-attended-deadly-rally-in-charlottesville Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:00:55 +0200 swedes-attended-deadly-rally-in-charlottesville Scuffles broke out in Oskarshamn on Saturday after neo-Nazi organisation Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska motståndsrörelsen, NMR) began handing out flyers in the centre of the town. https://www.thelocal.se/20170723/swedish-neo-nazis-hand-out-flyers-causing-fight-to-break-out Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:13:34 +0200 swedish-neo-nazis-hand-out-flyers-causing-fight-to-break-out Swedish neo-Nazi groups were less active in 2015, according to a new report. But it is getting more and more difficult to get a complete picture of the ideology, say the experts behind the new figures. https://www.thelocal.se/20160519/is-neo-nazi-activity-decreasing-in-sweden Thu, 19 May 2016 10:35:42 +0200 is-neo-nazi-activity-decreasing-in-sweden A group of neo-Nazis marched into a school and took pictures of the audience during a lecture by a Holocaust survivor in Varberg in southern Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20150421/swedish-neo-nazis-spread-unrest-at-holocaust-talk Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:41:55 +0200 swedish-neo-nazis-spread-unrest-at-holocaust-talk Prison sentences of between three and eight months have been handed down to nine men involved in a neo-Nazi demonstration in Stockholm in 2013. Swedish courts have already punished fourteen others for their role in the brutal violence. https://www.thelocal.se/20150326/nine-more-jailed-for-stockholm-nazi-attack Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:55:00 +0100 nine-more-jailed-for-stockholm-nazi-attack Sweden's neo-Nazi organizations are declining in numbers, but their activity is growing in intensity, an annual report by Swedish anti-racist foundation Expo has suggested. https://www.thelocal.se/20150324/neo-nazi-activity-on-the-rise-in-sweden Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:14:36 +0100 neo-nazi-activity-on-the-rise-in-sweden A man was charged on Monday with aggravated assault for his involvement in the Kärrtorp clash with neo-Nazis late last year. https://www.thelocal.se/20140602/man-charged-for-assault-in-krrtop Mon, 02 Jun 2014 12:58:00 +0200 man-charged-for-assault-in-krrtop Swedish police have been able to track the internet activities of a Swedish neo-Nazi wanted in connection with a knife attack after a feminist rally in Malmö on March 8th. https://www.thelocal.se/20140427/police-follow-cyber-trail-of-swedish-neo-nazi-fugitive Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:13:43 +0200 police-follow-cyber-trail-of-swedish-neo-nazi-fugitive Local politicians in the town of Jönköping have asked police to retract a demonstration permit to neo-Nazis, whose march through the central Sweden town landed two people in hospital last year. https://www.thelocal.se/20140331/nazis-not-welcome-here-swedish-small-town-mayor-2 Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:14:00 +0200 nazis-not-welcome-here-swedish-small-town-mayor-2 A Swedish court on Wednesday jailed the Stockholm head of the Swedish Resistance Movement (SMR) and said that the neo-Nazis present at the Stockholm demo gone awry were "obviously" the ones to attack. https://www.thelocal.se/20140326/sweden-jails-krrtorp-nazis-for-obvious-instigation Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:40:00 +0100 sweden-jails-krrtorp-nazis-for-obvious-instigation A suspected extreme-left activist has been detained in absentia on suspicion of attempted manslaugther during the Kärrtorp clash with neo-Nazis that left Sweden shocked. https://www.thelocal.se/20140321/police-seek-leftwing-activist-over-attempted-manslaughter Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:02:00 +0100 police-seek-leftwing-activist-over-attempted-manslaughter The suspected neo-Nazi leader allegedly at the helm of the violent altercation in Stockholm last year told court on Tuesday that anti-racism demonstrators attacked them, not the other way around. https://www.thelocal.se/20140304/they-attacked-us-swedis-neo-nazi-leader Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:35:00 +0100 they-attacked-us-swedis-neo-nazi-leader