Swedish police on Thursday arrested a man suspected of plotting a “terrorist attack” after a two-day manhunt, as the country steps up security after last week’s carnage in Paris. Iraqi Mutar Muthanna Majid was apprehended during an afternoon raid on
The latest YouGov opinion poll for Sweden, released today, shows the anti-mass migration Eurosceptic Sweden Democrats coming top, five points clear of their nearest rival. Building on what was already a historically strong position for the Sweden Democrats, the YouGov
Sweden’s terror threat level has been raised to “high” for the first time in the country’s history after the head of the Säpo security service said police were hunting a suspected terrorist. The threat level is now at the second-highest
Swedish Islamists have reacted with joy at the Paris attacks, writing praise from their new homes in the Islamic State and promising more of the same. One ‘Swedish’ Muslim propagandist who publishes pictures of himself wielding automatic weapons glorifying jihad
Remarks by Sweden’s foreign minister drawing a parallel between the Paris terrorist attacks and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have been slammed as “appallingly impudent” by Israel. The diplomatic row went public on Monday but stemmed from comments made on Saturday, hours after Friday’s deadly
Gothenburg, Sweden sends more terrorists to fight with Islamist groups per head of population than any other city in Europe, a senior police figure has revealed. Sweden’s second largest city is comparatively small at half a million inhabitants compared to
A combination of lax policing and a lack of political will has rendered Sweden’s shock border checks totally ineffective, as the first 24-hours show no reduction in migrant numbers. Sweden suspended the Schengen zone at their southern maritime borders with Denmark
In a spectacular example of pulling the ladder up, migrants interviewed last night said they were delighted by the introduction of border controls in Sweden. Despite having been in the country for less than 24-hours, the newly-arrived asylum seekers were already complaining there
Contents: Arms race grows between Serbia and Croatia; EU and African leaders clash amid accusations of ‘Fortress Europe’; Sweden, Slovenia and Denmark take steps to block the migrant flow
Valletta (AFP) – EU leaders hope Thursday to clinch an aid-for-cooperation deal with their African partners to tackle an unprecedented migration crisis and rebuff fears a “fortress” Europe is emerging. The concerns were aired at a rare EU-Africa summit in
Sweden is to reintroduce border controls at its southern frontier from midday today, suspending the ‘Schengen’ free movement agreement with neighbouring countries Germany and Denmark. The move is a significant u-turn for the grand coalition government led by left-wing Social Democrat Stefan
A senior member of the Sweden Democrats has rebuked a BBC news article portraying his party as being Neo-Nazi and violent, Breitbart London can exclusively reveal. The BBC has joined ranks with the Swedish mainstream media in launching a hit-job on rising star
A group of young political activists volunteering with anti-mass migration Sweden Democrats have travelled to Greece to inform would-be asylum seekers about the deteriorating situation in Sweden. Taking photographs and handing out flyers to migrants as they stepped off boats
Despite the experiences of many European nations which are desperately trying to roll back certain parts of the European Union (EU) to combat the migrant crisis, Sweden’s prime minister has taken an opposite view. Criticising suggestions from within Sweden that
The organisers of a Kristallnacht commemoration in Sweden have admitted to deliberately excluding the Jewish community because the event was an “unwelcoming or unsafe situation for them”. The event in the predominantly leftist city of Umeå, mid-eastern Sweden, proclaimed itself as ‘Umeå against
The Swedish government has been reduced to pleading with economic migrants and refugees moving north through Europe to stop coming, as their social services grow so overwhelmed. Amid the busiest week ever for asylum applications in Sweden, the government has all
Sweden welcomed 10,201 asylum applications last week, the highest ever number. Latest figures from the Swedish migration and asylum bureau (Migrationsverket) have confirmed the historic rate at which migrants are arriving in the country, which has surpassed even the numbers arriving
Sweden’s admission that it is buckling under the pressure of the migrant crisis as it struggles to provide accommodation for those arriving from Denmark and Germany is exposing European Union discord on the issue. Earlier this week the Swedish government admitted it
Several IKEA stores in Germany and Sweden have run out of beds and mattresses due to a surge in demand caused by the influx of migrants, the Swedish furniture chain said Friday. “There is some shortage in several stores in Germany
A gang of teenage Muslim migrants have been sentenced to less than two years in youth offender centres for beating and raping a vulnerable Swedish woman at an isolated beauty spot. The assault took place at the end of summer, when
Sweden’s government has announced it is now unable to cope with the volume of people migrating to it and is looking to its neighbours and the European Union (EU) for support and emergency aid. Admitting they were being totally overwhelmed
A number of migrants have been recorded complaining about the weather in Austria, and wishing they could go home. Although it isn’t clear what they expect their new hosts to do about the cold, an emerging key complaint among migrants when given
The Swedish government is set to vote on new proposals regarding transgendered children. The legislation would make irreversible surgical castration for 15-year-olds and legally changing the gender of 12-year-olds possible, against the will of parents. The extreme proposals were published
Nov 3 – Police forcibly removed about 100 people from a makeshift Roma camp in Sweden’s southern city of Malmo early on Tuesday, ending a long standoff over the site that has fuelled tensions over immigration. Dozens of police arrived
As neighbouring Norway becomes so safe police are preparing to hand in their firearms, Sweden is riding on the crest of a migrant gun crime wave fuelled by bloody gang wars. Not only is gun crime in Sweden higher than
