[W]hile the group might have looked menacing from a distance, when they got closer police found around 30 young men hugging and laughing dressed in formal clothes, not militant garb.
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| A picture taken for the photoshoot of the Bearded Villains in Sweden, who were mistaken for Isis terrorists | Jason Mellström, Studio Mellström |
Source/Credit: The Independent | UK
By Adam Withnall | October 12, 2015
The group was waving a black flag which, a member has admitted, looks a bit like the Isis emblem
Terror police in Sweden have been called to reports of a group of bearded men in dark clothes raising a black flag above a remote castle.
But instead of Isis militants, officers responding to the scene stumbled across a meeting of an international organisation of beard aficionados.
The Swedish chapter of the “Bearded Villains” met on Saturday for a photo shoot at the ruined castle of Braehus, with members excited to be pictured with the organisation’s black-and-white flag.
And while the group might have looked menacing from a distance, when they got closer police found around 30 young men hugging and laughing dressed in formal clothes, not militant garb.
Andreas Fransson, a Bearded Villains member and founder of Ratemybeard.se, wrote on Facebook later that the run-in with officers was “not what we set out for”. [more ...]
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