Hundreds of masked men rampaged through Stockholm’s main train station on Friday evening as they allegedly targeted refugees in a string of violent attacks.
Stockholm police spokesperson Towe Stagg said the men, who were seen wearing all-black balaclavas and armbands, “gathered with the purpose of attacking refugee children."
One witness told the Aftonbladet newspaper: “I saw maybe three people who were beaten. That was no football brawl or something similar.
“They targeted migrants. I was quite scared and ran away."
Before the violence broke out, the mob allegedly distributed leaflets that stated "It is enough now!" and threatened to give "the North African street children who are roaming around" the "punishment they deserve".
The leaflet was an apparent reference to the death of Alexandra Mezher, a social worker who was stabbed at a refugee shelter for unaccompanied children.
Four people were arrested following the attacks on Friday.
One man was held for assaulting a police officer, while the others were charged with being masked in public, which is illegal in Sweden.
The Swedish Resistance Movement, a neo-Nazi group, claimed the attack had "cleaned up criminal immigrants from North Africa that are housed in the area around the Central Station.”
In a statement released after the attack: "These criminal immigrants have robbed and molested Swedes for a long time."
"Police have clearly shown that they lack the means to stave off their rampage, and we now see no other alternative than to ourselves hand out the punishments they deserve."
Sweden received a record 160,000 refugees last year.
