Sweden-based Palestinian terrorists Abu Talb and Marten Imandi were convicted of perpetrating a series of bombings and attacks in 1985 and 1986 , along with two co-conspirators who received lesser sentences . The attacks included the 1985 Copenhagen bombings of the Great Synagogue and Northwest Orient Airlines , and the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 , the " Lockerbie bombing . " In the 2000s , the issue of terrorism financing and recruiting for terrorist groups , including Islamist groups , have also been on the security agenda . Criminal acts from domestic political extremist groups , both on the right and on the left , have also become an increasing phenomenon . The neo-nazi activist group Swedish Resistance Movement ( SRM ) was formed in 1997 and merged into the Nordic Resistance Movement ( NRM ) in 2016 . The group has been behind several violent actions since a bomb and the murder of the journalist Björn Söderberg in 1999 . In 2017 , NRM members were arrested for involvement in two bombings and a bombing attempt in Gothenborg , near two refugee accommodations and a syndicalist organization . Legion Wasa is a neo-Nazi paramilitary organisation founded in 1999 , whose members have reportedly been preparing for race war , and once made preparations for helping out Saddam Hussein in the Iraq War against the invading United States Army . Led by Curt Linusson , a former UN soldier and Home Guard officer , the group has conducted field practice in the forests of Västergötland . The organisation is said to have between 25 and 30 members . In 2004 four members of the organisation were arrested , charged with plotting mass murders of political opponents , and of forming a terrorist cell inspired by the novel '' The Turner Diaries '' . All four were acquitted for terror charges , although three of the charged were convicted for violence and drug charges , with sentences ranging from one to two years imprisonment . The 2010s saw an upsurge in far right violence in Sweden
1985 Copenhagen bombings
1985 Copenhagen bombings
Terrorism in Sweden