Nazi Threat Stalks Bucolic Swedish Political Fest

[TomSea]

Nazi Threat Stalks Bucolic Swedish Political Fest
By Amanda Billner and Rafaela Lindeberg

Sweden’s annual celebration of democracy (and lobbying) in the idyllic medieval town of Visby was under siege over the past week.

Almedalen week, a gathering of politicians, executives, lobbyist, activists and a sea of media, has become a growing target of far-right extremists, who demonstrated, disrupted speeches and attacked people in the cobblestoned alleys of the old Hanseatic town on the island of Gotland. Complaints to the police more than doubled this year, with charges of assaults, hate speech and agitation against ethnic groups, according to the TT news agency.

Maria Halkiewicz, a representative of the Sweden-Israel Friendship Association, was a front-row witness to an assault by the Nordic Resistance Movement, a neo-Nazi group. Her friend, Kicki, was brought to the ground as she tried to stop the NMR from raising a banner in front of their tent. “They dragged her back and forth on the ground as she was lying on her back,” she said.

Read more at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-08/last-week-in-sweden-nazi-threat-stalks-bucolic-political-fest

To me, it sounds kind of harsh just to say "Nazi threat", at the least, it's a "Neo-Nazi group" in the article and I'm not sure if that kind of broadbrushing is proper either. See picture at link.  Who makes the rules of calling whom what?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Resistance_Movement

[truth_seeker]

Opposition to migrants from non-European lands, is widespread across most of Europe.

Per capita, Sweden has already taken in the highest percentage of any nation.

Such opposition does NOT equal Nazism. Nor does opposition to open borders in the US equal Nazism.

Unless that is, you are a raving self-hating, white guit obsessed Progressive.

 

[cato potatoe]

Swedish government and state media are colluding to transform the country into a multicultural utopia.  They will say and do anything it takes to make that happen.  If the Sweden Democrats win the largest share of the vote, the other parties will call the voters racist and proceed as if nothing happened.