TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1999

Shop-windows shattered on anniversary of the Crystal Night Hans Himmler Petersson 32 years old, Helsingborg. Patric Sik 25 years old, Hägersten. Tony Olsson 27 years old, Örebro. Tommy Rydén 33 years old, Mullsjö. Marcus Törnlund 19 years old, Göteborg. Pär Sik, 22 years old, Mora. Robert Vesterlund 23 years old, Stockholm. Fredrik Svensson 20 years old, Varberg. Mathias Thidé 20 years old, Borlänge. Torulf Magnusson 30 years old, Linköping. The day after that Tuesday, when John Johansson had received his threatening letter, it was discovered that four other local politicians in Tomelilla had received similar letters. Among others representatives in the board for children and education. They had made a statement against Nazism and racism that was quoted in the newspaper Ystads Allehanda.    The week after came the next sign of Nazi activities in Tomelilla. During the night between the 9th and the 10th November, the night that after the German Nazis' attacks against Jewish shopkeepers in Berlin 1938 is called the Crystal Night, the shop-windows of the pizzeria, the video shop and the grocery in central Tomelilla were shattered. All these shopkeepers are immigrants from the Balkan.   John Johansson believes the situation is so serious that he has collected political parties and associations to meet the dawning Nazism. -I believe we are talking about a kernel of five or six persons that have moved here. We are afraid that they will get a tail of young followers. .    John Johansson wants to go out into the schools and inform and involve parents' associations and youth centres. But this isn't completely easy. For example the amusement hall where an anti-Nazi meeting was to be held a few weeks ago was under a bomb threat. The owner of the hall took the threat that was anonymously phoned in, seriously and did not dare to let the hall for the meeting.   Last week an anti-Nazi meeting could after all be held in Tomelilla, arranged by a parent association. 600 people came. Another manifestation is planned to the 3rd of December. Planning to take part in the next national parliament elections    A question that often comes up is how organised the Nazi groups really are.   The previously fragmented right-wing extremist groupings have been brought together under the umbrella of the National Socialist Front, which has a more distinct organisation than any other Nazi association has had in the nineties.   NSF is also planning to take part in the next national parliament elections and its leaders Anders Högström and Björn Björkqvist would like to appear as politically clean - in spite of this they continuously invite the agitator Erik Nilsen as a speaker.   The Nazi network behind the widely publicised acts of violence is both difficult and easy to observe. Difficult because there is no clear-cut leadership to which the planning and issuing of the orders of the acts of violence can be traced.   Easy because anyone who follows the persons behind the acts finds a jungle of cross-connections between individuals and organisations that quickly creates a network.    But wings and fractions are born and dismantled. The organisation NRA for example that the suspected police murderers in Malexander were structuring, was previously unknown to Säpo. Several of the leading figures in the network are experienced and serious criminals. But this is not the case of Andreas Axelsson, one of the three suspects of the acts in Malexander.   He is an example of how the Nazi ideology in a very short time can transform an unknown school boy into a cold-hearted robber or even a murderer.   This has been shown in Sweden as well as in the US.