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 Unidentified attackers burst into a Stockholm mosque, just after morning prayers on Saturday, spray-painting swastikas and hate speech on the walls and throwing firecrackers, police said. https://www.thelocal.se/20161126/invaders-paint-swastikas-in-stockholm-mosque Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:52:10 +0100 invaders-paint-swastikas-in-stockholm-mosque A football pitch in Enskede in the south of Stockholm was painted with a large swastika on Saturday, just a day before a tournament involving a team of unaccompanied refugee youths was due to take place. https://www.thelocal.se/20160605/swedish-football-pitch-defaced-by-swastika Sun, 05 Jun 2016 16:30:43 +0200 swedish-football-pitch-defaced-by-swastika A 15-year-old boy was charged on Friday for drawing swastikas on a church wall - with chocolate milk. https://www.thelocal.se/20140627/boy-charged-for-chocolate-milk-swastikas Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:16:00 +0200 boy-charged-for-chocolate-milk-swastikas Several swastikas scrawled on the facade of the Stockholm mosque were covered by flowers on Monday, leading the Islamic Association's chairman to hope "the quiet majority" is finally speaking up. https://www.thelocal.se/20140107/swastikas-on-mosque-replaced-by-flowers Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:38:00 +0100 swastikas-on-mosque-replaced-by-flowers The doors to the central Stockholm mosque were covered in Nazi graffiti on Wednesday night, the first time vandalism has taken the shape of swastikas, representatives said. https://www.thelocal.se/20140102/swastikas-scrawled-on-central-stockholm-mosque Thu, 02 Jan 2014 10:51:00 +0100 swastikas-scrawled-on-central-stockholm-mosque Sweden's Queen Silvia has resubmitted a press ethics complaint concerning the newspapers that chose to reproduce artwork that she found "insulting and hurtful" because it portrayed her scrubbing a Nazi swastika off the floor. https://www.thelocal.se/20130220/46306 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:45:00 +0100 46306 Cannabis growers claiming they're innocent as their product is "organic", men biting through prison beds, and nazi t-shirts - here are some amusing tidbits from the past week in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20120330/39996 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:27:00 +0200 39996 A Swedish paper manufacturer made an unpleasant discovery recently, when they found that someone had been drawing swastikas on the company's paper rolls - later exported to a major client in Germany. https://www.thelocal.se/20120310/39594 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:25:00 +0100 39594 When 8-year-old Eddie and his family recently ate at a fast food outlet in Umeå in northern Sweden, they were surprised to find that the gift inside the box featured a swastika tattoo. https://www.thelocal.se/20110811/35480 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:40:00 +0200 35480