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		</div><p>Hundreds of people have gathered at the site of a crash in which a man drove a truck into shoppers in the Swedish capital, killing four people, as the country comes to terms with the attack.</p>
<p>The suspect in the attack on Friday, a 39-year-old native of Uzbekistan who has been arrested, had been on authorities&#8217; radar but was dismissed as a &#8220;marginal character&#8221;.</p>
<p>The crowds gathered in Stockholm built a wall of flowers on the fence put up to keep them away from broken glass and twisted metal. Some hugged police officers.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Stefan Lofven and Crown Princess Victoria were among those to visit the site.</p>
<p>One attack by a man who drove a stolen truck into shoppers &#8211; also wounding 15 &#8211; has brought Sweden&#8217;s open-door immigration policies under increased scrutiny.</p>
<p>It has also raised the question of whether Swedish society, considered democratic and egalitarian, has failed to integrate its newcomers.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We have been too liberal to take in people who perhaps we thought would have good minds. But we are too good-hearted,&#8221;</i> said Stockholm resident Ulov Ekdahl, a 67-year-old commercial broker.</p>
<p>Joachim Kemiri, who was born in Sweden to a Tunisian father and Swedish mother, says too many migrants and refugees have been arriving.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Too many of them have been coming in too fast,&#8221;</i> the 29-year-old railway worker said. <i>&#8220;It&#8217;s too much.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Sweden has long been known for its open-door policy toward migrants and refugees.</p>
<p>But after the Scandinavian country of 10 million took in a record 163,000 refugees in 2015 &#8211; the highest per-capita rate in Europe &#8211; Mr Lofven conceded it could no longer cope.</p>
<p>He laid flowers at the truck crash site, declaring Monday a national day of mourning, with a minute of silence at noon. He urged citizens to &#8220;get through this&#8221; and walked the streets to meet them.</p>
<p>No one has claimed responsibility for Friday&#8217;s attack but Sweden&#8217;s police chief said authorities were confident they had detained the man responsible.</p>
<p>Sweden&#8217;s police chief Dan Eliason said officers found something in the stolen beer truck that &#8220;could be a bomb&#8221; or an incendiary device, but said they were still investigating.</p>
<p>The populist, right-wing Sweden Democrats have tapped into a growing anti-immigrant sentiment. Mattias Karlsson, the party&#8217;s parliamentary group leader, said on Saturday that he feels &#8220;anger and sorrow but not shock&#8221; over the attack.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Unfortunately, there have been clear signs that it was just a question of time before the next attack would hit Sweden,&#8221;</i> he said. <i>&#8220;It will have far-reaching implications for society and politics.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Steve Eklund, an office worker a few blocks from the incident, said Sweden&#8217;s immigration policy had gone wrong.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Sweden has made some mistakes, and something needs to be done to assimilate the immigrants better,&#8221;</i> he said. <i>&#8220;But it takes two to tango &#8211; the immigrants living here need to reach out to ethnic Swedes too.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Not everyone agreed. Visiting the crash site, Crown Princess Victoria laid roses on the ground and wiped away a tear.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We must show a huge force, we must go against this,&#8221;</i> she said. <i>&#8220;Swedish society is built on huge confidence, a sense of community.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>In February, US president Donald Trump shocked Swedes when he suggested it could be the next European country to suffer the kind of extremist attacks that have hit France, Belgium and Germany.</p>
<p>Friday&#8217;s attack was the latest in which drivers have used vehicles as weapons.</p>
<p>In an attack last month claimed by Islamic State (IS), a man drove into a crowd in London, killing four people before stabbing a policeman to death. He was killed by police.</p>
<p>IS also claimed responsibility for a truck attack that killed 86 people in Nice, France, in July 2016, as well as another that killed 12 people at a Christmas market last year in Berlin.</p>
<p>Friday&#8217;s truck attack on Stockholm&#8217;s pedestrian shopping street of Drottninggatan was also near the site of a December 2010 bomb attack.</p>
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