Sweden Democrats Invite Extremists to Gotland
The Sweden Democrats youth organization (SDU) has invited several youth organisations to the Almedalden political week on Gotland, with experts warning that their agendas are openly racist and xenophobic.
The police were out in force monitor the event which is held on Sunday.
SDU are hosting a debate on Sunday entitled “The youth and the nation in Europe in the 2010s” featuring youth Politicians from Ring Freiheitlicher Jugend (Austria), Front National de la Jeunesse (France) and the Vlaams Belang Jongeren (Belgium).
“We share their ideas and want to show that we are part of a larger movement. It is with pride we take them to Gotland,” said Gustav Kasselstrand, chairman of SDU, to the Gotlands Allehanda daily.
According to political scientist Andreas Johansson Heinö at Gothenburg University the invited youth associations all have extreme racist roots.
“National Front is clearly racist and the Sweden Democrats (SD) have previously classified them as too radical.”
Johansson Heinö described Freiheitlicher Jugend as anti-immigration with anti-Islam policies and considers the Belgian Vlaams Belang Jongeren to be reminiscent of the National Front.
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