Overview
- A Stockholm court sentenced four men aged 20 to 23 to prison terms of three to three-and-a-half years for aggravated assault with hate-crime motives.
- The court found the group targeted three men of foreign origin during a roughly 30-minute series of attacks on Aug. 27 in central Stockholm.
- Documented assaults included beating a Black man with an umbrella, leaving a Syrian victim unconscious with four teeth lost, and attacking a third man on a subway train.
- The ruling noted links to Aktivklubb Sverige, reported Hitler salutes that night, and trial evidence such as notebooks with swastikas and stickers reading "Love Sweden, Hate Islam."
- The defendants denied most charges and claimed self-defense, while Swedish experts and security officials warn that Active Clubs promote violent radicalization of young men.