A gang of masked, black-clad men rampaged through the streets of Stockholm last night handing out leaflets threatening to attack migrant street youths, "to make a statement", with police saying today two arrests had been made. The incident highlights the growing tensions over immigration in Sweden, a country of 10 million which received 163,000 asylum seekers last year, and comes days after a 22-year old female worker was stabbed to death in a centre for unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors in southwestern Sweden. The police said in statement one man had been arrested for punching a plain clothes officer in the face and another for carrying a brass knuckleduster, but the extent of any assaults against immigrants was not clear. Swedish dailies said that according to witnesses a number of people had been attacked by the men who were thought to belong to "firms" of hooligans associated with local soccer teams. The leaflets handed out last night, which were confirmed by police as being the same as were posted on Swedish social media, said, "When Swedish streets are no longer safe for ordinary Swedes it is our DUTY to fix the problem ... Today, therefore, 200 Swedish men gathered to...
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