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Video showing arrest of young refugee in Sweden resurfaces

By France24
13 February 2022   |   12:24 pm
A video doing the rounds on social media shows a boy being arrested in a brutal manner by police in Sweden. The video has been circulated with another explanation for the events by those claiming Swedish authorities are separating refugee children from their parents. We sort the facts from the fiction.

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