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Mob attacks on migrants across Europe heightens
The growing influx of migrants into European countries has continued to heighten tension leading to arrests and violence in the UK and Sweden.
Over the weekend, masked mob members called for attacks on foreigners especially those seeking asylum in Stockholm while UK authorities also had a tough time restoring peace when pro- and anti-migrant demonstrators clashed in the British town of Dover.
Read also: Scores of migrants storm French port, tear down barriers
According to Stockholm police spokesman Albin Naverberg, nearly 100 men (some of them wearing black clothes and masks) gathered in the capital on Friday night handing out leaflets calling for locals to attack migrants.
Naverberg said; “There have been reports of attacks on people from immigrant backgrounds which surfaced in the media and on social media, but we have not received any reports of assaults on migrant civilians.”
The latest tension in Sweden follows an incident in which a 15-year-old asylum-seeker fatally stabbed a 22-year-old female refugee centre worker in the Western Sweden region of Gothenburg.
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