Some 20,000 anti-globalisation protesters are set to march in Sweden on Saturday in what is expected to be one of the biggest demonstrations ever held in the Scandinavian country, organisers and police said.

"This will probably be the biggest demonstration (in Sweden) since the end of World War II," organiser Peter Johansson told reporters at the European Social Forum in the southern Swedish town of Malmo.

The four-day forum has requested that police keep a discreet presence at the march, and only a few dozen officers will be visible along the demonstration route, Anders Svensson, who is in charge of protest security, told reporters.

"That is one of our demands to police," he said, adding that organisers wanted to avoid a repeat of the 2001 clashes between protesters and officers in the southwestern city of Gothenburg, when 250 people were injured, including three demonstrators shot by police.

Unlike in the case of the Budapest far-righters, methinks even if this is not all scare-mongering and there will be a riot, only a small minority of the protesting total will participate.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}