Swedish police investigates former Ku Klux Klan leader over anti-Semitic remarks

03 November 2005

November 03, 2005

Swedish police are investigating if the former leader of the extremist American movement Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, is guilty of racist crimes in this country, according to radio reports in Sweden. Duke, a former Louisiana state representative who has given speeches and taken part in radio programs during at least four visits to Sweden in 2004 and this year, is accused of making anti-Semitic remarks at a meeting of neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists in the southern Swedish city of Helsingborg last February. According to the newspaper "Sydsvenska Dagbladet", police are investigating if his speech infringed the law banning incitement against an ethnic group. Duke recently published a book entitled "Jewish Supremacism". If charged, Duke would face arrest if he returns to Sweden, but it was not clear whether Sweden would request him to be extradited.