Today on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) a Swedish neo-Nazi group, is set to march in Gothenburg.
Dubbed “Revolt against the traitors”, the march aims to protest Sweden’s acceptance of refugees, which peaked in 2015 when 160,000 crossed the border fleeing Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan among others. Initially planned to pass a synagogue, a court ruling has rerouted the demonstration amidst an outcry by concerned local faith leaders. Existing on the political fringe for decades, the NRM has capitalised on the far-right Sweden Democratic Party’s 49-seat-grip out of the national legislature’s 349 seats.
Read the full article by Jeremy Hutton at Foreign Brief.