Summary Project was announced barely a week after two people were killed in a racially-motivated attacked.
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - The Swedish Red Cross on Wednesday said it would set up a free helpline to offer advice and support to anyone worried that a loved one may be on the path to radicalisation.
The announcement of the project comes barely a week after two people were killed in a racially-motivated attack on a school that shocked the nation.
"We are launching this hotline at the request of the National Coordinator Against Extremism. We want to help the families, the friends of people tempted by radical extremism," Swedish Red Cross president Anna Carlstedt told AFP.
The aim of the hotline -- which will be open from November 16 -- is not to identify potential extremists, whether they are sympathisers of radical Islam, the extreme left or the hard-right, but to offer support to "all those who suspect a loved one is being radicalised", Carlstedt added.
Several other countries, including France and Britain, have set up similar free phone numbers to address concerns about radicalisation.
Sweden is still reeling from the attack in the southwestern town of Trollhattan last Thursday, in which a teaching assistant and a student were killed by a sword-wielding attacker with apparent far-right, anti-immigrant sympathies.
