On Sunday morning, police in Sweden responded to reports from a highway near Stockholm where unknown individuals had suspended large red flags with swastikas from an overpass.
Drivers on the Essingeleden highway, which connects the city of Solna in the north to the capital, were shocked to see the Nazi flags at the gateway to Stockholm and called the police. Officers arrived at the scene just over 20 minutes after the first report, took down the flags, and began an investigation.
Mats Eriksson, a spokesperson for the Stockholm police, told SVT News that authorities were investigating the incident on suspicion of "incitement against an ethnic group." According to police, the flags were likely displayed as part of a "tribute" to the birthday of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, whose birthday falls on April 20.
