A counter-protester is arrested by the police as they keep them away from the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement's sympathizers after a demonstration in central Stockholm on November 12, 2016. (AFP Photo/Jonathan Nackstrand)
Swedish police said 10 people were detained as a Swedish right-wing extremist group marched through central Stockholm while counter-demonstrators threw snowballs and fireworks at them.
Police spokesman Lars Bystrom said those detained were taken when counter-demonstrators briefly clashed with officers in the capital’s picturesque old city as they tried to reach the rally by the Nordic Resistance Movement.
A few hundred people, some with the movement’s green and white flags, walked in crisp, freezing weather.
Up to six times as many people staged a counter-demonstration nearby and some eventually broke out to try to block the right-wing group from crossing a bridge on their route. Large police forces, including mounted officers, kept the sides apart.
Two people were injured in the clashes between police and the anti-fascists.
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Counter-protesters throw flairs toward police officers as they demonstrate against the neo-nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska motstandsrorelsens) rally, in central Stockholm on November 12, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JONATHAN NACKSTRAND)
Spokesman Lars Bystroem told TT news agency that a policeman was hit by a demonstrator, and a second individual was injured in circumstances that were unclear.
Counter-protesters demonstrate against the neo-nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska motstandsrorelsens) that held a protest rally in central Stockholm on November 12, 2016 against migrants. (AFP PHOTO / JONATHAN NACKSTRAND)
The NMR, set up in 1997, promotes an openly racist and anti-Semitic doctrine, and press commentators had questioned the wisdom of authorizing Saturday’s rally, given the likelihood of violence.
Police officers treat an injured protester from the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska motstandsrorelsens) in central Stockholm on November 12, 2016 after a protest against migrants. (AFP PHOTO / JONATHAN NACKSTRAND)
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