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Nazi website reported by Swedish police after ‘threats’

Police have reported neo-Nazi website Nordfront for making threats against officers.

Published: 12 November 2017 17:03 CET
Nazi website reported by Swedish police after 'threats'
File photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT

The reports comes after police broke up a march by neo-Nazi group Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska motståndsrörelsen, NMR) in Gothenburg on Saturday.

“We have concluded that there is a picture which threatens police, whereby Nordfront, on its website, asks for the names and addresses of police officers whom they filmed on Saturday,” police spokesperson with the Västra Götaland district Ulla Brehm told broadcaster SVT.

“Since we urge the public to report threats, we are now doing that ourselves. But I cannot go into further detail,” Brehm added.

On Saturday, around 40 NMR supporters demonstrated in Gothenburg without police permission. 16 people were arrested as a result. 

In September this year, a major NMR march in the city – which had been allowed to go ahead by authorities – required heavy police presence and ended in a number of arrests.

After that march, a spokesperson for the group suggested future marches would be carried out without permission.

READ ALSO: Neo-Nazi group could be banned from Sweden's annual politics festival

POLITICS

Red-green coalition takes power in Gothenburg

The Social Democrats, Green Party and Left Party have managed to oust the right-wing Moderates from power in Gothenburg, despite failing to strike a coalition deal with the Centre Party.

Published: 28 October 2022 15:34 CEST
Red-green coalition takes power in Gothenburg

The Social Democrats, Left Party and Green Party will now take over the municipality with Jonas Attenius, group leader for the Social Democrats in the city, becoming the new mayor.

“We three parties are ready to together take responsibility for leading Gothenburg,” Attenius wrote to TT. “I am looking forward immensely to leading Gothenburg in the coming years.” 

The three parties will lead a minority government, with 40 out of 81 mandates, meaning it will dependent on mandates from the Centre Party to pass proposals. 

The three parties had hoped to bring the Centre Party into the coalition, but talks fell apart on Monday,  October 24th. 

“We our going into opposition, but our goal is to be an independent, liberal force, which can negotiate both to the left and to the right,” the party’s group leader in Gothenburg, Emmyly Bönfors told the Göteborgs-Posten newspaper. 

The end of talks in Gothenburg leave the Social Democrats leading coalition governments in all three of Sweden’s major cities, with Karin Wanngård appointed Mayor of Stockholm on October 17th. 

The Social Democrats had unbroken control in Malmö since 1994, after they regained power from the Moderates, who controlled the city from 1991-1994, and also from 1985-1988. 

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