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2017-12-10

ISIS vows to ‘make New Year’s Day hell’ and attack people ‘on foot’ at Christmas markets in Europe to dodge security barriers in latest sick propaganda posters 07/12/17 [DailyMail] ISIS has threatened an attack on Paris on New Year's Day in yet another digitally created propaganda poster showing crowds of people in front of the Arc de Triomphe Italian Bishop Decries Use of Migrant Dinghy in Nativity Scene 6 December [Breitbart] A bishop in the north of Italy has sharply criticized the placement of the Virgin Mary and the Baby Jesus in a migrant dinghy rather than a traditional manger in the town Nativity scene. Goolag Archipelago: Google Sends Powerful Migrant Crisis Video by POLISH GOVERNMENT to ‘YouTube Jail’ 6 December [Breitbart] YouTube has ‘quarantined’ the hard-hitting video on Europe’s migrant crisis released by Poland’s conservative government as part the platform’s crackdown on “hate speech and violent extremism”. From Breitbart - jihad: Islamic Extremist Plotting Christmas Market Attack in Austria Arrested 8 December A 25-year-old Bosnian Islamic extremist was arrested Thursday in Graz after police discovered he was plotting to drive a vehicle through the city’s Christmas market emulating the Berlin terror attack last year. Former French PM: ‘Jihadists Act in the Name of Islam’ 5 December Former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has insisted that not only do jihadists act in the name of Islam but said denying terrorists are true Muslims removes the responsibility of other Muslims to act. Christmas Market Cancelled as Organisers Couldn’t Afford €20,000 Anti-Terror Barrier Bill 3 December The Christmas market on la Croix-Rousse hill in Lyon, France, has been cancelled because organisers cannot afford the €20,000 security budget. From the Daily Mail - European migrant and refugee crisis: Germans consider the migrant influx their biggest problem... with Donald Trump second on their list ahead of North Korea or Russia, new poll shows 05/12/17 Topping the list of foreign policy concerns were refugees, with 26 per cent of respondents to a Koerber Foundation survey worried about Germany's ability to cope with asylum seekers The German town that said 'nein' to Angela Merkel's migrants: SUE REID reports from Salzgitter after its mayor called a moratorium on accepting any more foreigners 04/12/17 Here in Salzgitter, things are abruptly changing. It's pro-refugee Mayor has declared a moratorium on any more foreigners coming to join the 5,800 (pictured) who have already arrived British smugglers are 'charging up to £5,000' to help illegal immigrants sneak into the UK from Belgium 04/12/17 Police in the European country say there has been a surge in the number of culprits from the UK at the port of Zeebrugge - with offenders risking jail terms From Breitbart - immigration: Polish PM-Designate Dreams of ‘Re-Christianised Europe’, Defends Poland’s Migrant Policy 9 December Poland’s prime minister-designate, Mateusz Morawiecki, says he dreams of Europe becoming “re-Christianised” and is defending the migration policies of his ruling party which have caused tensions with the European Union. Migrant Admits in Court to Forced Sex Act Involving 83-Year-Old Woman 8 December A 29-year-old asylum seeker admitted to a bizarre sex act in which he forced an 83-year-old woman to allow him to masturbate on her although he had previously denied it claiming his penis was too small to have been able to commit the act. Danish Government Proposes Putting Failed Asylum Seekers on Deserted Islands 8 December Danish Immigration and Integration Minister Inger Støjberg has said that she does not oppose the idea of putting failed asylum seekers on one of the many deserted islands within Danish territory. Islamic Org Claims Europeans Need Millions of Muslim Migrants to Pay Their Pensions 8 December The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) — an intergovernmental body consisting of 57 member states — has declared that Europeans need Muslim mass migration to pay their pensions. Study Reveals 84 Per Cent of ‘Underage’ Migrants Tested in Sweden Are Adults 7 December The Swedish government has released new figures showing that 83 per cent of migrants tested who claimed to be children were adults. Swedish Chief Prosecutor: No-Go Zone Rinkeby Is Like a ‘War Zone’ 6 December Swedish Chief Prosecutor Lise Tamm has claimed that the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby is like a “war zone”. Merkel’s Crisis Continues As Key Ally Rejects Socialists’ Pro-Migration Coalition Plans 6 December German Chancellor Angela Merkel may not be able to avoid a crisis after Christian Social Union leader Horst Seehofer rejected the Social Democrats’ migrant family reunification plans before coalition negotiations have even begun. Not Part and Parcel: Hungary Refuses to Accept Radical Islamic Terrorism as ‘Something We Have to Live With’ 5 December The Hungarian government has vowed it will never accept radical Islamic terrorism as “something we have to live with”, as the EU subjects it to a “witch-fund” for its strong stance against open borders and mass migration. Bavaria Classifies Asylum Homes as ‘Dangerous’ 5 December The Bavarian government has defended classifying asylum homes in the region as ”dangerous places” allowing police to enter or raid asylum homes without a warrant after an outcry by pro-migrant groups. Swedish Government to Ban Websites that List Ethnic Origin of Criminal Suspects 5 December Sweden has proposed banning the public use of the legal document search engine Lexbase which is used to identify the ethnic origins of Swedish criminal suspects. POLITICO: Orbán Sidesteps Merkel, Meets with German Regional Leaders 4 December Viktor Orbán isn’t best friends with Angela Merkel but the Hungarian prime minister has found another way to wield influence in Germany — by sidestepping the chancellor to cultivate ties with regional leaders. Sweden’s Ex-Premier Compares Migrant Influx to Couples Having Children 4 December Former Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has claimed that the large-scale influx of asylum seekers to Sweden is a blessing for the country comparing them to couples having new children. In One German Region, Unemployment of Migrant Crisis Arrivals is 96 Per Cent 3 December Migrant unemployment continues to be a major problem with the district of Salzlandkreis seeing only 56 out of 1,530 migrants registered at the jobcentre able to find full-time work. Germany Offers Voluntary Repatriation Payments to Migrants That Will Go Home 3 December BERLIN (AP) – Germany wants to support rejected asylum-seekers who voluntarily move back to their home countries with a one-time payment of 3,000 euros ($3,570). The Interior Ministry says those who qualify can apply by a Feb. 28 deadline and

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Europe

'They don't want to integrate': Fifth night of youth rioting rocks Stockholm

2013-05-25

Besoeker provided this post to us yesterday with our usual sharp commentary from our readers, but I wanted to pay some attention to it since it's blindingly obvious (to us) what is going on, and yet equally obvious that the authorities are blind. Europe is reaping what it has sowed in more than one way. I've cut down to the more essential bits of the shocked, shocked interviewees who are beginning to see what the problem is but don't quite get the why... Youth gang riots in the Swedish capital Stockholm have entered fifth straight night. Hundreds of mostly immigrant teenagers tore through the suburbs, smashing windows and burning cars in the country's worst outbreak of violence in years. At least six vehicles were torched throughout the city late on Thursday while the police called for reinforcements from other Swedish cities bracing for further unrest. The night before, the fire brigades were called to some 90 different blazes. On the fourth night of violence, youths torched over 30 cars in 15 neighborhoods along with a restaurant in Skogas, south of Stockholm. Three law enforcement officers were injured, police spokesperson Kjell Lindgren reported. Leaders of immigrant communities were out on the streets in a bid to stop young people from rioting. Despite their efforts, as soon as the night fell, groups of arsonists took to the streets to set cars on fire. RT's Peter Oliver witnessed rioters throwing stones at police and journalists alike. Civil disorder in Stockholm started on Sunday, when police shot and killed a 69-old-man in his apartment after he confronted officers with a machete; the unrest has since continued throughout week. This machete thing seems to be going around... Community leaders insist that a main reason for the violence is the high rate of unemployment in immigrant communities, particularly in the suburb of Husby near central Stockholm, one of the worst affected by the nighttime violence, Peter Oliver reported. But, but, but, the unemployed get benefits! How can they be unhappy? Although Sweden's unemployment rate is below the EU average, joblessness among those under 25 has reached nearly 25 percent. The RT crew in Stockholm noted that a majority of those taking part in the violence are young. A majority of those taking part in any riot are young unless the riot is at a nursing home, and even then... "In Sweden you've got welfare, access to the educational system -- up to university level, you got access to public transport, libraries, healthcare -- to everything. And still they feel that they [immigrants] need to riot through stones and Molotov cocktails. It's ridiculous and a bad excuse," Swedish Democrats MP Kent Ekeroth told RT. Why is that? Why are they rioting? Perhaps it's because they have no meaning in their lives, having had everything given to them, and so they filter over to the local holy place where shrewd men fill their heads with poisonous crap, and then set them loose on the surrounding community... "Police can put down these riots in five minutes -- if the politicians were to allow them," Ekeroth added. Parents of the rampaging teenagers and community religious leaders are now spending sleepless nights on the street in an effort to prevent their children from wreaking havoc. Meanwhile, the Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt blamed the violence on "hooligans" and said they did not represent the majority in the rioting neighborhoods. They don't need to be a majority, they just need to cow and badger the majority... "I think it's dangerous to draw a picture of Sweden with a capital separated from its suburbs. I don't think that's true. I think the dividing line runs straight through Husby, with a majority population and then a small group of youts troublemakers," Reinfeldt said. But the Husby youth taking part in riots told Reuters they are indeed divided from the rest of Stockholm, struggling to find a full-time job with their Husby address. Most of the interviewed rioters were reportedly unemployed. So they sit around receiving benefits. They can't work, they can't drink sez their religion, they can't integrate because the blonder parts of the population deep down don't think they're Swedish enough, and they're too headstrong to listen to mom and pop. But the local holy man, him they listen to... The claims of social exclusion in immigrant-dominated suburbs have been partly conceded by Sweden's Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag, who said the ministry is aware of "discrimination in these areas." But the riots "don't improve the image of these areas, where there is a lot of positive stuff going on," he added. First problem is that they have an 'Integration Minister'... For years, Sweden -- one of Europe's most tranquil countries, famous for its attractive immigration policies and generous welfare system -- has been accepting an influx of immigrants, which now make up about 15 per cent of its population. These migrants have failed to integrate into Swedish society, and are only in the country to take advantage of enjoy the country's social benefits system, Swedish journalist Ingrid Carlqvist told RT. "The problem is not from the Swedish government or from the Swedish people," the editor in chief of Dispatch International said. "The last 20 years or so, we have seen so many immigrants coming to Sweden that really don't like Sweden. They do not want to integrate, they do not want to live in [Swedish] society: Working, paying taxes and so on." They're not exactly encouraged to do so by the blonde ones, but that's no excuse. Plenty of ethnics came to America and forced the locals to acknowledge them as equals, mostly by working their tails off. Irish, Italians, Jews, Russians, Chinese, and so on have made it. It isn't perfect as we all know, but these groups came to America to be Americans. It seems that the biggest problem is that the immigrants came to Sweden to take advantage of the system and not to become Swedes... "The people come here now because they know that Sweden will give them money for nothing. They don't have to work, they don't have to pay taxes -- they can just stay here and get a lot of money. That is really a problem," Carlqvist added. Ms. Carlqvist: they don't want to be Swedes. That is the problem you can't seem to face directly, because doing so would require you to consider the solution that the best thing to do would be to give the immigrants a rather stark choice: either become Swedes (and get off the dole) or go back to the mother country. How 'progressive' would that be? "The police could do so much, [instead] they have told the public that they mean to do as little as possible. But they could go there and use water cannons, they could not let people out onto the streets at night. There are so many things they could do within the law -- but they don't do it," she said. Young Muslims who enjoy tolerance, social institutions and welfare while living in Sweden nevertheless refuse to integrate into the West, Gerolf Annemans told RT. Annemans is the parliamentary leader of Vlaams Belang ('Flemish Interest'), a Belgian far-right nationalist political party. "They [Muslim youths] have always sought excuse to show that they are not agreeing with the basic values of Western society," Annemans said, pointing to the recent cases of the Boston Marathon bombing in the US and yesterday's beheading of a British soldier in the UK. "It's always the same problem. There is a massive refusal by Muslim youngsters of the basics of Western society... and they take any excuse whatsoever to show that with violence -- that is where the problem is," he said. Again, it's a bit two-way: Europeans felt they had to take in the immigrants but don't really let them become Swedes, or Belgians, or French. Turks came to West Germany in the early 1960s to do jobs the Germans, still recovering from the war, wouldn't do, and fifty years later their grandchildren aren't accepted as German. So it becomes no surprise that they're 'alienated'. As rioting continues to rip through Stockholm, some claim the violence has clearly been orchestrated for ulterior motives, Lars Hedegaard, Editor-in-Chief of Swedish newspaper Dispatch International said to RT. "Some people would like to gain recognition as stakeholder in society. In other words, there are people who would like to be in a negotiating position... that they can make things happen and go away. That they have power in local communities and should be reckoned with," he explained. Like the imams down at the local holy shoppes, for example... "These riots in the country that are spreading and continuing for a long time that the [multiculturalism] success was a fiction, they never succeeded," Hedegaard said.

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International-UN-NGOs

EU climate cash pledge 'not enough'

2009-12-12

EU leaders ended a Brussels summit with a three-year deal to pay 7.2bn euros (£6.5bn; $10.6bn) to help poorer nations cope with climate change. The EU contribution is part of a global "fast start" package being debated at the UN Copenhagen summit. But leaders of poorer nations and some aid agencies described the sum offered by the EU as inadequate. Groups representing poorer nations most at risk from climate change added their voices to the call for a bigger financial commitment. Lumumba Stanislaus-Kaw Di-Aping, representing the G77 bloc of developing nations and China at the Copenhagen talks, accused EU leaders of acting like "climate sceptics". "They are essentially saying that the problem does not exist," he told a news conference. "Their pledge does not address financing in its totality. We want to know where the money is coming from. Is it overseas development aid or not? When Gordon Brown says the cost of climate change will be irreparable, is he really being true?" Dessima Williams, chairwoman of the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis), said even the global sum on the table at Copenhagen was not enough. "We just had a (Commonwealth) meeting in Trinidad where the figure of $10bn per year was put on the table and that was woefully inadequate," she said. "One cannot do sustainable development - making the transformations in energy for example - with such a small pot of money." Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister He Yafei was also sceptical. "It will be relatively easy for developed countries to come up with a number for the short term for three years," he said. "But what shall we do after three years?" Some aid groups said the EU pledges included funds from existing budgets. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose nation held the rotating EU presidency during the summit, acknowledged that the pledges were "a combination of new and old resources". "Almost all of the money is likely to be simply a relabelling of existing aid commitments," said Anne-Catherine Claude, of ActionAid. "Many EU members have a track record of repackaging or re-announcing existing aid commitments. This appears to be the case here too." Oxfam EU climate change adviser Tim Gore was also disappointed. "In Brussels today, EU leaders only offered small sums of short-term cash. Worst of all, this money is not even new - it's made up of a recycling of past promises, and payments that have already been made," he added. Announcing the deal at the Brussels summit, Mr Reinfeldt said all 27 EU member nations would contribute and that the EU was doing its "fair share". The UK was the largest contributor at £500m ($800m; 553m euros) a year followed by France and Germany.Eastern European countries, which had protested they were too poor to pay, have also made contributions although some are merely symbolic. Many, like Poland, say they are unable to give cash and have offered instead a percentage of the future sale of unused carbon credits. But diplomats admit there is no guarantee how many of those will be sold.

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Europe

EU paving the way for 'European empire'

2009-10-31

European Union leaders have cleared a major obstacle holding up the massive Lisbon reform treaty, paving the way for a new-look EU with its first-ever president. At talks in Brussels, the leaders approved a proposal to satisfy a last-minute demand by Czech President Vaclav Klaus for his country to win an opt-out from the EU's charter of fundamental rights. The Czech Republic is the only one of the 27 EU nations, which has not ratified the treaty -- which some critics say is a threat to the sovereignty of member-states', and will turn the bloc into "an empire the size of Europe." "I am happy to say that the European Council, this evening, has been able to take a decision and agree on what has been asked for by the Czech government and the Czech president," said Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. "We have moved the last political obstacle to ratification," said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, after a summit working dinner. Klaus angered his EU partners when he sought an opt-out from the treaty three weeks ago, after Prague's parliament had already ratified it, in what his critics took as a fresh attempt to delay its adoption. The move was to ensure the treaty will not allow ethnic Germans forced out of the former Czechoslovakia after World War II, for Nazi collaboration, to reclaim their property. The last technical obstacle remains a court appeal against the treaty by a group of Czech parliamentarians, many from the party Klaus founded. The Czech Constitutional Court is set to rule on it on November 3. With the Czech problem out of the way, attention has also turned to candidates to become the first EU president, with former British premier Tony Blair a front-runner, along with Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker.

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More about the Iraqis being returned from Sweden

2009-06-28

Long and self-indulgent article with a few nuggets of useful information. It appears that a large number of the expelled Iraqi asylum seekers are Assyrian/Chaldean/whatever Christians, not Sunni/Shiite/Kurds, who are indeed at risk when they return home. Prime Minister of Iraq Nuri al-Maliki has promised Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to protect the Iraqis that are sent back to cities like Baghdad.

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Iraq

Iraq wants refugees to return home

2008-05-31

(VOI)- Iraq wants its refugees to return home and those who do can expect "privileges", Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said during a visit to Sweden on Friday. "We hope that our children, especially the experts, who are obliged to emigrate, would return," he told reporters at a press conference with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. “He called on the Swedish companies to come and invest in Iraq, considering Iraq as “an open area for the Swedish investments,” according to a statement released by al-Maliki’s office and received by Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq (VOI). “The two officials discussed issues of common interest, including the Iraqi refugees issue in Sweden and means to bolster bilateral ties,” the statement added. “In our constitution, there is no majorities and minorities and Iraqi Christians are part of this country and we are interested in the return of all refugees, including Christians after the security improvement,” the statement quoted al-Maliki as saying. "We have statistics that say that tens of thousands of refugees wish to return. We welcome them, we will give them privileges," added Maliki the day after he co-hosted a large international conference on Iraq in Stockholm. The Iraqi government has "a clear strategy" and has earmarked funds "so as to take the necessary preparations for a voluntary return" of refugees, he said. In 2007, 18,559 Iraqis requested asylum in the Scandinavian country. In total some 100,000 Iraqis currently live in Sweden, making up the second-biggest foreign community behind Finns.

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Sweden: Prime Minister Reinfeldt gets behind Obama

2008-02-05

Barry ... watch your 6! Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has expressed his support for Democratic candidate Barack Obama in the race for the US presidency. Having looked analyzed all the candidates' policy platforms, Reinfeldt said he felt most affinity with the views of the Chicago senator. "It's hard to oppose one's own politics," Reinfeldt told reporters at the Riksdag on Tuesday. The Prime Minister noted that Obama's 'Making work pay' programme was very similar to the tax breaks for workers introduced by his own centre-right government, with low-income earners standing to benefit most. "He is particularly close to the Moderates in the areas of economic and climate policy," said Reinfeldt. But he was also critical of the more protectionist trade stance favoured by both Obama and Hillary Clinton. Reinfeldt said he shared John McCain's free trade line but was less impressed by the Republican candidate's plans for tax cuts and a swelling of the defence budget. Any increase in the US budget deficit would have a negative impact on the Swedish economy, he said.

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AQ In Iraq: $150,000 for Swedish cartoonist 'if slaughtered like a lamb'

2007-09-15

"Happy Ramadan to all our pals in Sweden!" Oh, dear! I do hope this doesn't lead to increased Islamophobia! The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq offered money for the murder of a Swedish cartoonist and his editor who recently produced images deemed insulting to Islam, according to a statement carried by Islamist Web sites Saturday. In a half hour audio file entitled "They plotted yet God too was plotting," Abu Omar al-Baghdadi also named the other insurgent groups in Iraq that al-Qaida was fighting and promised new attacks, particularly against the minority Yazidi sect. "Our god is a plotting god." "We are calling for the assassination of cartoonist Lars Vilks who dared insult our Prophet, peace be upon him, and we announce a reward during this generous month of Ramadan of $100,000 for the one who kills this criminal," the transcript on the Web site said. The "faithful" worship their idols with blood sacrifices. Blood, blood, and more blood. There isn't enough blood in the entire world to satiate their thirst. The al-Qaida leader upped the reward for Vilks' death to $150,000 if he was "slaughtered like a lamb" and offered $50,000 for the killing of the editor of Nerikes Allehanda, the Swedish paper that printed Vilks' cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog's body on Aug. 19. Vilks said from Sweden he believed the matter of his cartoons had been blown out of proportion. "We have a real problem here," Vilks told The Associated Press by telephone. "We can only hope that Muslims in Europe and in the Western world choose to distance themselves from this and support the idea of freedom of expression." Right. You can also hope they sprout wings and fly to the moon. Odds are approximately the same. Ulf Johansson, editor in chief of Nerikes Allehanda, said he took the bounty "more seriously" than other threats he had received. "This is more explicit. It's not every day somebody puts a price on your head." You may not be interested in Jihad, Sven, but Jihad is interested in you. Johansson said he had contacted the police and that they had already started work on the threat. Swedish cops have a lot of stuff on their desks right now. I doubt they're off to Tikrit to arrest Abu Omar, though. Aside from a few scattered protests and condemnations by Muslim countries, the reaction to the cartoon has been muted, in contrast to last year's fiery protests that erupted in several Muslim countries after a Danish newspaper published 12 cartoons of Muhammad that were reprinted in a range of Western media. In an attempt to defuse the tensions caused by the cartoon in both Sweden and abroad, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt last week invited 22 Sweden-based ambassadors from Muslim countries to bitch talk about the sketch. Reinfeldt expressed regret at the hurt it may have caused, but said that according to Swedish law it is not up to politicians to punish the free press. According to shariah, it is up to Muslims at large to punish infidels for anything they damned well feel like punishing them for. Al-Baghdadi added in his message that if the "crusader state of Sweden" didn't apologize, his organization would also attack major companies. "We know how to force you to retreat and apologize and if you don't, wait for us to strike the economy of your giant companies including Ericsson, Scania, Volvo, Ikea, and Electrolux," he said. In utterly-secularized Sweden, the above-named firms will have to do as Sweden's religious hierarchy. "Crusader state of Sweden"? My mind just boggled. I think I'll go lie down. No photo has ever appeared of al-Baghdadi, whom the U.S. describes as a fictitious character used to give an Iraqi face to an organization dominated by foreigners. The U.S. has said that under interrogation, a top al-Qaida member revealed that al-Baghdadi's speeches are read by an actor. Al-Qaida in Iraq in the past has carried out operations in Jordan and may have links to militant groups in Lebanon, but is not known to have any kind of presence in Europe. An integral part of al-Qaeda in Iraq is Zarqawi's al-Tawhid organization, which does have a presence in Europe.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Swedish ambassador attacked in Moscow

2007-05-02

A crowd of aggressive Russian nationalists attacked a car carrying Sweden's ambassador in Moscow, Johan Molander, on Wednesday morning. The ambassador was returning from a visit to the Estonian embassy when the attack took place. For twenty minutes, Molander and his driver looked on from inside the vehicle as the Swedish flag was ripped off and the car was vandalized by an angry mob shouting nationalist slogans. Neither the ambassador nor his chauffeur were injured in the attack. "Russian police intervened far too late and in insufficient numbers," said the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in a statement. Somebody in Washington needs to bring this matter to the front burner, now. Christina Johannesson, First Secretary at the Swedish Embassy, was a witness to the events. "The atmosphere was nasty and aggressive. Russia police did intervene but they were too late. What's more, they were at a numerical disadvantage," she told news agency TT. The Russian ambassador in Stockholm has been called to a meeting with cabinet secretary Frank Belfrage on Wednesday afternoon. Sweden is expected to lodge a strong formal protest with regard to Russia's handling of the incident. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt told news agency TT the incident was serious and unacceptable", and reiterated Sweden's support for the Estonian government. Pro-Soviet youths have been camped outside the Estonian embassy in Moscow for six days to protest against the relocation of a Soviet war memorial in the Baltic state's capital Tallinn. Putin's budding Black Hundreds? Molander visited the Estonian embassy to discuss the diplomatic tension between Russia and Estonia.

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