Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Neo-Nazi activity in Sweden doubles in 3 years, anti-racist group says

Neo-Nazi rallies and PR activities in Sweden, including putting up stickers, have rocketed by 20 percent in the last three years, reaching record heights, despite a decline in the number of far-right organizations, the anti-racist Expo Foundation says.

“It's an enormous increase. Just in a couple of years, in three years' time, it has almost doubled. We have never seen this many activities before,” Anna-Sofia Quensel, Expo investigator, told Swedish Radio on Tuesday, The Local reported.

In the last year, the number of neo-Nazi activities has risen by 23 percent, from 2,334 in 2013 to 2,864 or seven to eight a day. This comes as the number of neo-Nazi organizations in Sweden has declined in recent years.

“The major part of activities is the spreading of propaganda, meaning sharing flyers, putting up stickers, often by night,” Quensel said .... http://rt.com