Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven spoke out against right-wing extremism in his traditional May 1st speech, and called for an investigation into whether Nazi groups could be banned in Sweden.
Militant anti-fascists have attacked a demonstration by the neo-Nazi Nordic resistance movement, casting bangers and smoke grenades and throwing stones at police horses.
Seventeen men linked to neo-Nazi group Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) have been charged with agitation against an ethnic group and violent riot for their actions during a demonstration last year.
Around 300 neo-Nazi activists demonstrated
in central Stockholm on Saturday, drawing boos from protesters and politicians seeking to ban their movement.
Stockholm police are confident they can contain the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) march planned on the Stockholm island of Kungsholmen on Saturday.
Sweden's authorities have long struggled with how to handle marches by the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR). Now the openly racist and anti-Semitic group is campaigning in the general election for the first time.
A man was arrested in Stockholm on Sunday after bangers were thrown at the US embassy during a protest by neo-Nazi group the Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR).
15 people from the neo-Nazi organisation Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen, NMR) as well as two counter-demonstrators have been taken in by police in Gothenburg.
Politicians on the Swedish island of Gotland want to ban an extremist neo-Nazi group from next year's Almedalen Week, the country's annual politics festival.
A court in Sweden has stopped a neo-Nazi group from marching near a synagogue in Gothenburg on the holy Jewish holiday Yom Kippur, overruling the police who granted permission for the demonstration to take the route.
Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has criticized a neo-Nazi march through Gothenburg, saying it is time to think about how to counteract extremist forces in the country.
Swedish police have confirmed they received an anonymous tip-off warning that a neo-Nazi group was planning to march through Gothenburg two days before it took place, but failed to act on the information.
Swedish police have hit back at criticism after a neo-Nazi group was allowed to march through the streets of central Gothenburg despite not having an official permit to demonstrate.
Scuffles broke out in Oskarshamn on Saturday after neo-Nazi organisation Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska motståndsrörelsen, NMR) began handing out flyers in the centre of the town.
The neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) shouted slogans during several events at Sweden’s annual Almedalen Week political forum, including during speeches by two MPs.
Sweden’s neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) mounted the biggest march in its history on Saturday, with its leadership saying the election of Donald Trump in the US marked the start of a world revolution.
