HELSINKI (AP) – Police in Sweden said they are preparing for new violent clashes following riots that erupted between demonstrators and counter-protesters in the central city of Orebro on Friday ahead of a far-right group’s plans for a controversial demonstration there.
Spokeswoman for police in southern Sweden Kim Hild said that the police would not revoke permission for a planned demonstration by the Danish right-wing Stram Kurs party in the southern town of Landskrona because the threshold for doing that is very high in Sweden, which values free speech.
The right of the protesters “to demonstrate and speak out weighs enormously heavily and it takes an incredible amount for this to be ignored”, Hild told Swedish news agency TT.
Police said, however, that the rally would be moved to another undisclosed location, according to TT.
