BUT DAMN DON'T TELEGRAPH IT TO THE POLICE
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/world/europe/attempted-attack-on-young-migrants-in-sweden-drew-rival-groups-together.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0Swedish Police Foiled Planned Attack on Immigrants in StockholmHALMSTAD, Sweden — Scores of masked men dressed in black, some carrying wooden weapons, descended on the center of Stockholm, gathering near the entrance to the city’s main subway station.
They had come, the authorities said, to beat and terrorize young migrants, large numbers of whom have been arriving in Sweden since late last year. A flier had served as a sort of call to arms.
Because of that, the police were waiting for them.
Thomas Westin, a station chief with the Stockholm City Police, said on Sunday that the police had received a tip on Friday that gangs with ties to various soccer teams, who are usually rivals, as well as extremist groups were planning to gather in the center of Stockholm Friday night to attack migrants.
The flier — with the headline “It’s enough now!” — calling on people to partake in the anti-immigrant actions had been distributed earlier on Friday, Mr. Westin said.
They planned to single out migrants who had come to Sweden as unaccompanied minors, the police said. The police cited the arrests of young migrants in the recent murder of a social worker and in a gang rape last year, as well as the attacks on women that have occurred in Cologne, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe.
Video footage from news sites showed a band of men dispersing in Sergels Torg, a square near Central Station, the city’s main train station, as the police approached.
Three people were arrested, one for striking a police officer and resisting arrest. There were no reports of migrants having been attacked, according to the authorities.
“The fact that these football firms worked together on Friday is very unusual,” Mr. Westin said, adding that the recent high-profile crimes might have helped provoke the actions.
“We’ve had a few incidents,” Mr. Westin said, referring to the murder of the social worker, Alexandra Mezher, 22, who was stabbed last Monday at a home for unaccompanied minors in Gothenburg where she worked. One of the residents has been arrested in the crime.
More than 35,000 unaccompanied minors sought asylum in Sweden last year, according to the Swedish Migration Agency’s website. About two-thirds of them arrived in the last four months of the year.
The police have been getting calls from homes for unaccompanied minors asking if it is safe for their residents to go to Stockholm, Mr. Westin said.
