‘Not welcome’: How Sweden’s far right took over Stockholm Central Station
Stockholm, Sweden – When Neira Tokalija, a 39-year-old therapist, saw the slogans of Sweden’s far-right party plastered wall-to-wall across Stockholm Central Station, she felt a familiar sense of fear. As a child, Tokalija had fled Bosnia and Herzegovina with her family after ethnic cleansing campaigns targeting Bosniaks.
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- Fact 1: Stockholm, Sweden – When Neira Tokalija, a 39-year-old therapist, saw the slogans of Sweden’s far-right party plastered wall-to-wall across Stockholm Central Station, she felt a familiar sense of fear.
- Fact 2: SD had spent about $100,000 on the station campaign with posters that read “If you commit crimes, live off benefits, don’t learn Swedish or misbehave, you’re not welcome”.
- Fact 3: The campaign came weeks before Sweden’s general election on September 13.
- Fact 4: The repatriation grant will help you get home.” The grant, which has been around since the 1980s and was introduced by a Social Democratic government, offered refugees about $1,000 to resettle in their country of origin.
Stockholm, Sweden – When Neira Tokalija, a 39-year-old therapist, saw the slogans of Sweden’s far-right party plastered wall-to-wall across Stockholm Central Station, she felt a familiar sense of fear. As a child, Tokalija had fled Bosnia and Herzegovina with her family after ethnic cleansing campaigns targeting Bosniaks.
US imposes sanctions on Palestine Action and other left-wing groups Colombia’s new president faces backlash over ‘inhumane’ deportation policy US says far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported to UK After seeing dozens of campaign posters and installations across Central Station by the Sweden Democrats (SD), a party with neo-Nazi roots, “it made me feel like it doesn’t matter how much I try as a second-generation immigrant; I’ll never be Swedish enough”, she said. SD had spent about $100,000 on the station campaign with posters that read “If you commit crimes, live off benefits, don’t learn Swedish or misbehave, you’re not welcome”. The campaign came weeks before Sweden’s general election on September 13.
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