Friday, May 24, 2013
Sweden. Fifth Night Of Rioting by Immigrants in Stockholm
Sweden: Fifth Night Of Rioting In Stockholm
More than a dozen people are arrested as firefighters are forced to respond to more than 70 reports of fire.
Rioters took to the streets of Sweden for the fifth night in a row on Thursday, torching cars, shops, schools and a police station.
Firefighters were dispatched to 70 different location across Stockholm in response to blazes started by groups of youths.
Two schools, including a Montessori school, were set on fire in two suburbs of the Swedish capital and up to 15 car fires were reported at locations across the city and beyond.
The unrest began on Sunday night after the fatal shooting of a 69-year-old man in an area with a high population of immigrants.
The man was said to have been wielding a machete and was shot by police who claimed they were acting in self defence.
Local activists claimed the incident sparked anger among local mostly immigrant youths who say they suffer police brutality.
During the first night of rioting, youths claimed that police called them "tramps, monkeys and negroes".
Wednesday night was the peak when firefighters had to deal with fires at 90 locations across Stockholm.
Last night firefighters had to put out fires at schools in Tensta and Kista, and tackled burned-out cars in Solluntuna, Jordbro, Norsborg and Rinkby.
A police station and several shops were set on fire in Aelvsjoe.
And police in Soedertaelje, a town south of Stockholm, said rioters threw stones at them as they responded to reports of cars set alight.
Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said the riots had "decreased in intensity".
He said 13 people were arrested on Thursday night, between the ages of 17 and 26, but no injuries were reported.
The riots have sparked a debate about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15% of the population.
Analysts say many of the immigrants who have arrived due to the country's generous refugee policy struggle to learn the language and find employment.
Stockholm county police chief Mats Loefving said the rioters were local youths both with and without criminal records.
"In the midst of all this there is a small group of professional criminals, who are taking advantage of the situation to commit crimes like this," he told Swedish Radio.
Ulf Johansson, deputy police chief for Stockholm county, said on Thursday: "Every injured person is a tragedy, every torched car is a failure for society ... but Stockholm is not burning.
"Let's have a level-headed view of the situation."
In the past decade Sweden has welcomed hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia and the Balkans, among others.
Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag has attributed the current violence to high unemployment and social exclusion in Sweden's immigrant-dominated areas.
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This is tip of the iceberg, as far as having immigrants from the stated nationalities in european countries. These immigrants fail to assimilate because they refuse to evolve from their pre-midevil customs infused by their religons. These violent incidents are the result of EU laws allowing settlment rights in prosperous northern european countries after they have been allow in through a southern EU country. Another failure - it would be best to remove these immigrants and send the back to where their customs and religon are dominant - and allow them to remain and govern themselves(or kill off each other). Their presence only destroys the culture of Sweden and other european nations. It's time to clean house and remove these people from the european countires.
ReplyDeleteSome elements do not belong in a civilized country. Will the liberals ever wake up?
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