SWEDISH police have been criticised for allowing the neonazi Nordic Resistance Movement to hold meetings and rallies at the country’s largest political event, which ended today.

The openly fascist group took part in Almedalen Week, an annual event on the Swedish island of Gotland with more than 4,000 events attended by 40,000 people.

Public gatherings and demonstrations require a permit approved by the police and the decision to allow the group to participate has been widely condemned.

An appeal by Sweden’s largest LGBT group RFSL was rejected and it withdrew from the event after the nazi party had run a “crush the homo lobby” campaign earlier this year.

The group wants to form a Nordic republic made up of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland that would expel those without an “ethnic northern European heritage.”

The Holocaust deniers want to “retake power from the global zionist elite that economically and militarily occupied the majority of our world.”

Journalist Jan Scherman was denounced as a “filthy Jew” when he tried to interview a party member, who told him he did not have a place in Sweden as people chanted “Sieg Heil.”

Swedish police said they had a “good dialogue” with the party.