Swedish Premier Calls for Resistance Against White-Power Threat
- Lofven says tolerance of Nazi groups is a slippery slope
- Premier vows never to cooperate with Sweden Democrats
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Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven called for people to stand up against the growing threat of Nazism and white-power movements to protect democratic values.
Fascist groups are moving forward their positions “step by step,” the premier said in a speech in Eskilstuna, Sweden, highlighting local demonstrations across the Nordic country as well as “Nazi groups, the Ku Klux Klan and white power protesters in Charlottesville.”