Photo: Ulf Palm/TTSweden's main organization for Jews is appealing a police decision to grant the openly racist neo-Nazi group the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) permission to stage a march near a synagogue in Gothenburg on September 30th. The march will not only fall on the same day as the holy Jewish holiday Yom Kippur – a day of atonement observed by fasting and praying – it will also pass close to a Gothenburg synagogue. “It’s the day of the year when many Jews who normally don’t go to the synagogue will gather there. “Aside from out of fear for our own security, it evokes uncomfortable associations for us Jews. There's a lot of crime associated with them, they have a relationship with violence," Expo researcher Jonathan Leman told The Local at the time.

Source: The Local September 11, 2017 12:33 UTC