STOCKHOLM, Sweden — A man shouting a Nazi slogan briefly disrupted the Swedish Open semifinal between Spain’s Fernando Verdasco and David Ferrer on Saturday in Bastad, south-western Sweden.
A video released by the daily Expressen showed a man wearing a black t-shirt with a symbol of the Nordic Resistance Movement, a neo-Nazi group, casually walking on to the court and shouting “Hell Seger!” a Swedish translation of “Sieg Heil.”
The young man, who raised his right arm, was quickly met with a booing crowd. He was later led away by security guards.
“I got scared when (the man) talked the way he did. He’s a lunatic… what he did is not normal,” Ferrer was quoted as saying by Expressen.
The match, which resumed after a short interruption, ended with a 6-1, 6-7 (3/7), 6-4 victory for Ferrer, who will meet Alexandr Dolgopolov in Sunday’s final.
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The Nordic Resistance Movement, founded in 1997, was described as the most violent Nazi organization in Sweden by Swedish anti-racism magazine Expo.
It has nearly 200 active members, according to Expo.
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