Dozens of masked men believed to belong to neo-Nazi gangs carried out a number of assaults on migrants in Stockholm overnight amid rising tension over immigration, Swedish police said today.
Police had beefed up their presence in city centre, deploying anti-riot and helicopter units after learning that extremists were planning “aggression on unaccompanied migrant minors”. “I was passing by and saw a masked group dressed in black... Start hitting foreigners. I saw three people molested,” the Aftonbladet daily quoted one witness as saying.
Police spokesman Towe Hagg said they didn’t receive any assault complaints but one 46-year-old man was arrested after striking a plain clothed officer.
