Police evict EU migrants from a camp in Malmoe, Sweden, November 3, 2015. Swedish police have started clearing the Roma camp in Malmo after a several month-long standoff between city authorities and about 200 people who had settled there. REUTERS/Drago Prvulovic/TT News Agency
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Bemused Swedes have been defending their record as a low-crime society in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's speech in Florida last week in which he appeared to refer to a terrorist attack in Sweden that did not happen.
Trump later said he was talking about a Fox News programme highlighting allegedly surging crime statistics in Sweden and linking them to rising immigrant numbers, after a record 163,000 asylum seekers arrived in 2015.
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