Three Swedish neo-Nazis get jail for bomb attacks on asylum centres
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STOCKHOLM - Three men with ties to the Swedish neo-Nazi movement were sentenced on Friday to up to eight and a half years in prison for bomb attacks in western Sweden over the past year.
Viktor Melin, 23, received the longest sentence for carrying out bomb attacks on a left-wing bookstore and an asylum centre and an attempted bombing of a second asylum centre. The attacks took place in November and January. Nobody was killed but one man was seriously wounded in the asylum centre attack.
A 50-year old man, Jimmy Jonasson, was sentenced to five years in prison for assisting in two of the attacks and a 20-year old man, Anton Thulin, got one year and six months for assisting in the attempted bombing.
"All three men have a common background in the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement and got to know each other through that organization," Gothenburg District Court said in its verdict.
