STOCKHOLM – Hundreds of youths set fire to cars and attacked police and rescue services in suburbs of Stockholm Tuesday night in Sweden’s worst disorder in years.
A police station in the Jakobsberg area in the northwest of the city was attacked, two schools were damaged and an arts and crafts center was set ablaze, despite a call for calm from Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.
It was the third night of unrest, mainly in suburbs where many immigrants live.
The riots, in one of Europe’s richest capitals, have shocked a country that prides itself on a reputation for social justice, and fuelled a debate about how Sweden is coping with both youth unemployment and an influx of immigrants.
“We’ve had around 30 cars set on fire last night, fires that we connect to youth gangs and criminals,” Kjell Lindgren, spokesman for Stockholm police, said on Wednesday.
He said eight people had been arrested on Tuesday night, but there were no reports of injuries.
The riots appear to have been sparked by the police killing of a 69-year-old man wielding a machete in the suburb of Husby this month, which prompted accusations of police brutality.
“Everyone must pitch in to restore calm – parents, adults,” Reinfeldt told reporters on Tuesday.
After decades of practicing the “Swedish model” of generous welfare benefits, Sweden has been reducing the role of the state since the 1990s, spurring the fastest growth in inequality of any advanced OECD economy.
While average living standards are still among the highest in Europe, governments have failed to substantially reduce long-term youth unemployment and poverty, which have affected immigrant communities worst.
The left-leaning tabloid Aftonbladet said the riots represented a “gigantic failure” of government policies, which had underpinned the rise of ghettos in the suburbs.
“We have failed to give many of the people in the suburbs a hope for the future,” Anna-Margrethe Livh of the opposition Left Party wrote in the daily Svenska Dagbladet.
An anti-immigrant party, the Sweden Democrats, has risen to third in polls ahead of a general election due next year, reflecting unease about immigrants among many voters.
Some 15 percent of the population is foreign-born, the highest proportion in the Nordic region. Unemployment among those born outside Sweden stands at 16 percent, compared with 6 percent for native Swedes, according to OECD data.
Among 44 industrialized countries, Sweden ranked fourth in the absolute number of asylum seekers, and second relative to its population, according to U.N. figures.
steven l Said:
The Swedes are little slower then French.
How come the Jews have not yet been accused for being responsible for the riots or the degradation of Swedish society!!!
Cornelius Hamelberg Said:
Yep we can assure you that as well – so why don’t you crawl back into your Islamofascist enabling hole and get burned to death or whatever like all the other dummies in Sweden.
There is no evidence the unhappy, rioting youths are exclusively Muslim.
The rioting has spread from Husby to nearby areas of discontent and I can assure you that although Muslims are a majority, there are also atheists, Christians, Marxists and people of various other political and religious affiliations in those troubled, slightly more economically depressed areas
Talk about people who never learn. Why are there still any Jews left in Sweden? They should have already sold everything and learned Hebrew. Europe is finished. Now the jihadists are working on the U.S.
And so it goes. Wherever muslims are, endless mayhem and bloodshed follow. But the west still refuses to see the truth about islam.
The Swedes are in serious denial. They still have their heads fully burried in the sand. This has nothing to do with poverty or unemployment. THIS IS JIHAD! WAKE UP!
@ Max:
Cameron has caved.!!!!!!!!!!!! He oesn’t even have panties, he is naked entire.
“They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind” Hosea 8:7
Max Said:
That’s because they are moderate Muslims.
(Ain’t this absurd!)
Shy Guy Said:
I have been taught by the press that religion has nothing to do with the fact that they were all Muslim.
Bill Levinson Said:
I have been taught by the press that they are believers in the religion of Asia.
chickens coming home to roost. Its a good education to experience the scenario that they are trying to force on the Jews.
Honey Bee Said:
That would be one of the Bozos that let them in the country. He’s lying through his panties.
David Legrem Said:
I know that in the broader sense that Sweden’s Islamonazis and its Marxo-Nazis among the elite have legitimized attacks on Jews. I am merely stating that in these particular riots, the thugs have not yet targeted the Jews.
Eric R. says:
May 22, 2013 at 8:55 pm
While the Swedes deserve it, you know that sooner or later, these Islamofascist thugs will turn on the Jews – and likely get help for it from the Swedish government…
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News for you, Eric: The Islamofascist scum have ALREADY turned on the Jews. Numerous incidents of cemetery desecration, swastikas painted on synagogues, physical attacks on Jews, not to mention that the Islamic campaign of rape against non-Muslims includes targeting of Swedish Jews as well as Christians. Goteborg, a major port city, is now virtually devoid of Jews, who have fled the persecution and terror of the Muslims.
Typical dishonesty from the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel Reuters. They manage to do the whole article while concealing the fact that the rioters were Muslims and that this continues in a long pattern of crime waves stemming from Muslim immigrants. Reuters also overlooks the cogent fact that there is a huge boom in Muslim on “Infidel” rapes, a practice endorsed by the local Muslim leaders and Imams.
Max Said:
Cameron adressed the UK, he said he was,” out-raged”. So there Max, yo mis-under-estimated the British.
Eric R. Said:
You over estimate the Swedes, The Vikings,long gone. Gustavus Augustus V,long gone.
Honey Bee Said:
Well, the Israelis would have to fight with both hands behind their back, in accordance with the UN.
yamit82 Said:
Monkies were lost some where over Lubbock, How ever the Flamingos have their cause up.
Eric R. Said:
You over estimate the Swedes!!!!!!!!!!
Well, it looks like the chicken have come to roost…
@ Dr. Fay:
Sounds familiar – they attack the police and fireman and then complain of ‘police harassment’. They learned from Gaza.
Total Thuggery – no law but their own – “He who kills a policeman will go to paradise” They should just let the Muslim areas burn.
Sweden is now Hell, absolute Hell – and the ‘authorities’ can’t figure out why (Translation – the ruling class has sold out the population to Jihadists for oil profits).
burn, baby burn – no one to blame but themselves
Honey Bee Said:
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A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.
If you see them, show them this information:
http://rt.com/news/woolwich-killing-emergency-cameron-650/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Soldier-beheaded-in-suspected-terror-attack-in-London/articleshow/20214252.cms?
Nothing wrong with Eurabia that a nuclear holocaust wouldn’t cure.
yamit82 Said:
Attacked by a group – and hordes of supporters filming the barbarity.
Another lone wolf attack.
Fools – the British have created their own executioners.
I have zero respect for Britain – they would have been better off under the Nazis before they became Nazis themselves that is.
While the Swedes deserve it, you know that sooner or later, these Islamofascist thugs will turn on the Jews – and likely get help for it from the Swedish government.
Israel might have to militarily intervene, sparking a war with Sweden.
Which would last oh, about 36 hours before the Swedes surrendered…
Muslim youth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piG9PfG9wVQ
@ yamit82:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mA7Ro-90AI Look for stars tonight,now I can scare you!!!!!!!!Sugar.
@ yamit82:
Swedes are not good at facing reality. Modern Swedes are NOT the immigrants that raised me. Its spelled jah.
Unfolding as I type:
UK: Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” behead British soldier with machete on public street
In the face of appeasement and denial everywhere in the West, the jihad grows more brazen. Here is the feed from the BBC: 1753:
Senior aides to Mayor of London Boris Johnson describe the Woolwich killing as a ‘sickening deluded deranged act of violence’, says the BBC’s Robin Brant.
Stupid British, BBC and Skye, refuse to mention the word Muslim and Terror!!!
Fox news that great “NEWS” (spit) station narry a word!!!! Any wonder Americans are stupid? They demand to be!!!!!!
They were stunned before the riots. They are so scared of them , they don’t dare call them Muslims. Looking forward to seeing Europe burn – the deserve it.
Yah that’s right, “youth gangs and criminals”!
You can go back to sleep. You don’t have a MUSLIM problem, no siry, it’s just “youth gangs and criminals”
They’ll be chanting this mantra with their last breath, which won’t be far away.
This is political correctness trumping self-preservation!
Good by Europe, hello Eurabia!!
Could this be divine retribution for the Holocaust??????
Got what they asked for,