The International Trump Movement
by digby
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| Local media reports that hundreds of thugs had been involved |
I have found it somewhat amusing to hear Marco Rubio say that Senator Sanders should run for president of Sweden considering how dominantly white Sweden traditionally has been. It’s true that it’s long been a bastion of democratic socialism, despite being a symbolic monarchy, and been very successful at it as well. But like the rest of Europe Sweden has had an influx of refugees as has most of Europe and their Donald Trump side (which exists everywhere) is coming out:
A large mob of far-right football hooligans attacked people ‘who looked foreign’ at Stockholm’s central train station, according to local police .
Shocking footage shows officers armed with batons in running battles with the crowd of masked men dressed in black.
As many as 200 people were involved in the beatings last night, prompted by the thugs’ desire to ‘clean up’ the area, it has been claimed.
Swedish news site Aftonbladet reports the group were spreading racist leaflets that targeted street children, entitled ‘It’s enough now’, earlier in the day.
Witnesses told Aftonbladet they saw a number of people being attacked in other areas in the city, including Sergels Torg public square.
A photographer for the site said: “I went by and saw a large black clad gang who were masked.
“They came from Queen Street and walked down toward the plate and began, as I understood it, to turn immigrants.
“I saw maybe three people who were beaten. I was quite scared and went from there.”
Read more : Social worker killed ‘trying to break up knife fight’ between to boys at migrant centre
A spokesman for Stockholm Police said: “They were scattering leaflets which had the intention to incite people to carry out crimes.”
Three people were arrested – one for punching a plain-clothes policeman and another for carrying brass knuckledusters, according to the Local.
All three were released on Saturday morning.
“We have been able to link them to hooligan gangs for Stockholm football teams,” Fredrik Nylén from the Stockholm Police told Aftonbladet.
Following the attack neo-nazi group the Swedish Resistance Movement said they had “cleaned up criminal immigrants from North Africa that are housed in the area around the Central Station”.
The scenes in Stockholm are just the latest in a spate of anti-migrant violence in Europe, and comes after a live hand grenade was thrown into a refugee camp in Germany.
The leaflet said:
‘All over the country, reports are pouring in that the police can no longer cope with preventing and investigating the crimes which strike the Swedish people.’
‘In some cases, for example, in the latest murder of a woman employed at a home for so called ‘unaccompanied minor refugees’ in Molndal, it goes as far as the National Police Commissioner choosing to show more sympathy for the perpetrator than the victim.’
‘But we refuse to accept the repeated assaults and harrassment against Swedish women.’
‘We refuse to accept the destruction of our once to safe society. When our political leadership and police show more sympathy for murderers than for their victims, there are no longer any excuses to let it happen without protest.’
‘When Swedish streets are no longer safe to walk on for normal Swedes, it is our DUTY to fix the problem.’
‘This is why, today, 200 Swedish men gathered to take a stand against the north African ‘street children’ who are running rampage in and around the capital’s central station.’
‘Police have clearly showed that they lack the means to stop their progress and we see no other way than to hand down the punishment they deserve ourselves.’
‘The justice system has walked out and the contract of society is therefore broken – it is now every Swedish man’s duty to defend out public spaced against the imported criminality.’
‘Those who gathered today are neither your politician, your journalist or your policeman. We are your father, your brother, your husband, your colleague, your friend and your neighbour.
‘Swedish men and women deserve safety in their everyday life and we are therefore calling on all others who also see the problem to follow in our footsteps, both in Stockholm and in other places around the country. For a better future together’
They’re going to make Sweden great again.
The right wing blogs are cheering them on. They say that vigilante violence isn’t really a good thing but what can you expect?
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