15 year-old faces filesharing rap
A 15 year-old boy has become the youngest Swede ever to be charged with violating copyright laws after uploading 24 films onto internet filesharing si...
Politics
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True Finns drop the ‘True’
Anti-immigration party the True Finns have officially dropped the ‘True’ from their English-language name and will be referred to simply as ‘The Finns...
Politician sorry for Islam-violence letter
A far right politician has been forced to apologise after the Norwegian media uncovered a letter sent to his colleagues, in which he suggests Muslims ...
Police: no age limit for criminal responsibility
The Danish Police Union is pushing for the criminal age of responsibility to be scrapped following a stabbing fatality involving two 13 year-old boys.
Nazi royal report branded a whitewash
An investigation into rumours about the role of the late father of Sweden’s Queen Silvia in Nazi Germany has been branded a whitewash by Holocaust sur...
Secret extremist group in leading DF positions
A secret network of right-wing extremists who condone violence against immigrants has managed to infiltrate the Danish People’s Party (DF), according ...
Police inaction after Nazi beach stoning
Denmark’s justice minister has ordered a full report after it emerged that police declined to investigate when a family with Indian roots was stoned a...
Police seize hedgehog in apartment raid
A Swedish woman could face criminal charges after harbouring a hedgehog in her flat in violation of the country’s hunting laws.