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Dozens arrested during neo-Nazi rally in Sweden

2017-10-01

[Al Jazeera] More than 60 people have been tossed in the clink
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
during a neo-Nazi rally and counterdemonstration in Sweden's second-largest city, according to police.

The rally by the Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) in Gothenburg on Saturday featured an estimated 600 people, short of the 1,000 supporters the group said would attend, according to the Swedish anti-racist magazine, Expo.

Those who attended marched in formation in all-black outfits, some wearing helmets and holding shields.

The march, dubbed Revolt Against the Traitors, was met by a large crowd of counterdemonstrators.

Police had posted flyers before the event warning people not to act in a way reminiscent of German Nazis demonstrations in the 1930s and 1940s.

NMR, which promotes an openly anti-Semitic doctrine, originally sought to pass near a downtown synagogue during the march, which coincided with Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day of the year.

But Swedish courts intervened and shortened the route to less than one kilometre. The rally's ending time was also shortened to avoid clashing with a nearby football game.

Counterdemonstrators threw fireworks and attempted several times to break police lines, allegedly to confront NMR members, who also tried to get past riot police.

At least 60 people were detained, police said in a statement after the rally. Two people were also reportedly injured.

Posted by:Fred

#4 TW. . Mostly they keep their mouths shut and their heads down.

As long as they keep their eyes open and their powder dry.

Posted by: AlanC 2017-10-01 13:02

#3 Part 1 of the NRM's nine political ambitions is to stop mass immigration and send away past immigrants.

Part 2 is to "With all available means, in the long run, regain power from the global Zionist elite who have occupied economically and simply militarily most of the world." (translated from their Swedish website)

So yes, generally they are xenophobes, and specifically anti-semites.

Posted by: Si vis pacem 2017-10-01 11:35

#2 The local government actually approved the original route that walked past the synagogue, uninterested in Jewish complaints about the threat of violence on the holiest day of the Jewish year. It was only after the courts intervened...

The Jewish community must have been very concerned. Mostly they keep their mouths shut and their heads down.

Posted by: trailing wife 2017-10-01 10:13

#1 Were those detained demonstrators or the counter-demonstrators?
and who was more anti-semitic?

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-10-01 08:04

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