State Dept. Sanctions Swedish Neo-Nazi Group
The State Department last week labeled the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), a Sweden-based neo-Nazi group, and three of its leaders as specially designated global terrorists.
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The sanctioned leaders are Tor Fredrik Vejdeland, also known as Fredrik Vejdeland; Pär Öberg; and Leif Robert Eklund, also known as Robert Eklund.
The NRM, formerly the Swedish Resistance Movement, engages in violence that is “based on its openly racist, anti-immigrant, antisemitic, anti-LGBTQI+ platform,” and its goal is to replace the Nordic democracies with a “united ethnic Nordic nation," the department said. The group has branches in Finland, where it is banned, as well as Denmark, Iceland and Norway.