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A BRIDGE TOO FAR-RIGHT Mass immigration has left Sweden feeling like ‘an alien country’ to much of its population, leading to the rise of the far right
On Sunday, as many as a quarter of Swedes will vote for the far-right, pro-'Swexit' Sweden Democrats Party in what would be an astonishing departure for a country seen a bastion of liberalism — so what has happened?

FEATURE
By Oliver Harvey, in Malmo, Sweden
8th September 2018, 12:49 amUpdated: 8th September 2018, 8:26 am
FROM his drab Swedish high-rise estate, Tim Sjolin gestures across a busy dual carriageway to a neighbourhood he says is “like an alien country”.

The area of looming tower blocks he is pointing at is gang-plagued Herrgarden — where 85 per cent of the residents were born outside Sweden.

In 2010 SD leader Jimmie Akesson emphasised his nationalist credentials by dressing in traditional Swedish costume to enter parliamentAFP - GETTY

In 2010 SD leader Jimmie Akesson emphasised his nationalist credentials by dressing in traditional Swedish costume to enter parliament

On the eve of knife-edge elections that are poised to catapult a far-right party with neo-Nazi links into power, unemployed butcher Tim, 31, insists: “There’s been too much immigration.

“We can’t take care of them all — we can’t even take care of our own people as well as we should.”

On Sunday, Tim and perhaps as many as a quarter of Swedes will vote for the far-right, pro-“Swexit” Sweden Democrats (SD) Party in what would be an astonishing departure for a country seen a bastion of liberalism.

The party is currently the largest in Sweden with YouGov giving it 24.8 per cent of the vote, ahead of the ruling Social Democrats — who have won every election since 1917 — on 23.8 percent.

A Somali migrant in the city of Flen

A Somali migrant in the city of Flen
So what has happened to this usually quiet corner of Europe, home of Abba, Bjorn Borg, Volvo and the ubiquitous furniture store Ikea?

For the answer to this question you need only travel 26 miles from Copenhagen in neighbouring Denmark across the Oresund Bridge — made famous by Nordic TV thriller The Bridge — to Malmo, Sweden’s third largest city that is now at the frontline of Sweden’s identity crisis.

Indeed, the ring road dividing Tim’s Almgarden flats in the Malmo ­neighbourhood of Herrgarden — part of the Rosengard suburb — has become a faultline for EU politics.

In the wake of Italian, Austrian and German elections, the EU is bracing itself for another breakthrough success for a far-right populist party.

Cross the Oresund Bridge — made famous by Nordic TV thriller The Bridge — and you'll reach Malmo, Sweden’s third largest city, which is now at the front line of the country's identity crisisGETTY - CONTRIBUTOR

Cross the Oresund Bridge — made famous by Nordic TV thriller The Bridge — and you'll reach Malmo, Sweden’s third largest city, which is now at the front line of the country's identity crisis
Tim — whose estate has long been a hotbed of SD support — insists one street in Herrgarden is a “no-go area” at night. Known as The Ghetto, it is awash with guns and drugs.

Ten people have been shot dead in Malmo already this year, despite police crackdowns on gang violence. In January, Rosengard’s police station was bombed.

Police blame criminals from migrant backgrounds.

When we visit Herrgarden, three Iraqis in a BMW glare menacingly until they hear our English accents.

“We thought you were cops,” one eventually laughed.

SD leader Jimmie Akesson once called his nation’s Muslim population 'the biggest foreign threat since the Second World War'GETTY -
SD leader Jimmie Akesson once called his nation’s Muslim population 'the biggest foreign threat since the Second World War'
Doing her grocery shop in an Arabic corner shop, headscarf-wearing Rabia Arif, 30, originally from Lahore in Pakistan, shakes her head when asked about the SD election surge.

The mum-of-one said: “I’m worried. If they come into Government they’re not going to want migrants in Sweden.”

Her fears may be well-founded.

From his high-rise estate, Tim Sjolin looks across a busy dual carriageway to the gang-plagued neighbourhood of Herrgarden — where 85 per cent of the residents were born outside SwedenPAUL EDWARDS THE SUN

From his high-rise estate, Tim Sjolin looks across a busy dual carriageway to the gang-plagued neighbourhood of Herrgarden — where 85 per cent of the residents were born outside Sweden
SD leader Jimmie Akesson once called his nation’s Muslim population “the biggest foreign threat since the Second World War”. He wants to stop asylum seekers coming to Sweden and to ban full-face veils in public. In 2010 he emphasised his nationalist credentials by dressing in traditional Swedish costume to enter parliament.

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