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A small village in Sweden became the site of unexpected violence on Sunday night when seven people were assaulted on the streets. According to reports in The Local, a neo-Nazi group attacked people on their way to a festival promoting feminism, leaving one man in need of hospitalisation.

Farnebo Community College hosted a feminist festival which lasted for three days. The festival has been held every year in Osterfarnebo for the past eight years and draws people into the town from across the country.

A group of young people between 17 and 25 years old reportedly left the festival around one o’clock in the morning.

Police investigator Kalju Poltrago told a local newspaper: “The men drove around the area in a car, shouting ‘sieg heil’ and doing Nazi salutes.”

Police have yet to identify the gang. “Witnesses described how a group of Nazis, or skinheads, got out of a car which was circling the area. After shouting ‘sieg heil’ and doing the Nazi salute the men then proceeded to assault the teenagers who had exited the college” said Poltrago.

The group was assaulted with metal pipes. “One girl was beaten bloody and another thirty year old man was battered while he lay on the ground. He was injured so badly that he had to be rushed to the local hospital for treatment,” said Poltrago.

Just 700 people live in Osterfarnebo, which is located beside a national park.

The Swedish government plans to fund pornography through a series of cultural subsidies valued at SEK 350,000 according to reports in The Local, a Swedish newspaper. A female director will be shooting “queer, feminist pornography” using mobile phones as part of a Swedish cultural initiative.

The film will be entitled Dirty Diaries and was inspired by Mia Engberg, a feminist documentary film maker. Engberg was responsible for the films Manhood, Bitch & Butch and Selma & Sofie.

Manhood, which came out in 1999, is a film set in San Francisco which looks at gender bending. Bitch & Butch, released in 2003 explored the possibility of feminist pornography, a concept made real with the new grant from the Swedish government.

Engberg has some experience in the erotic film industry, having filmed Selma & Sofie in 2001, the first erotic film made in Sweden by women.

Anne-Marie Söhrman Ferm advised the Swedish Film Institute on which films to fund this year. “For me it’s an examination of erotic film from a totally different perspective; a feminist perspective,” she said. “I think it’s a very exciting project with clearly artistic ambitions.”

Six other films received funding from the Swedish Film Institute in addition to Dirty Diaries. The subsidies totalled SEK 2.1 million.

Engberg, who was born in Stockholm and who is known for her work playing with Vagina Grande, a feminist ska/punk band, was unable to comment on the grant as she was working on a film in Paris.