Youth rioting in Stockholm, PM calls for calm

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Rioters have set fire to 30 cars and torched a school and a nursery in poor immigrant suburbs of Stockholm. Three nights of unrest in one of Europe's richest capitals has marred Sweden's reputation for social justice.
Swedish police said Wednesday they had arrested eight young men during a third night of urban unrest in low-income suburbs of Stockholm from Tuesday into Wednesday.

The rioting had erupted on Sunday after police shot dead a 69-year-old man on May 13.

Police said officers had acted in self-defense when the man wielded a machete in the northwestern suburb of Husby. The shooting was being investigated by a special police unit.

A group Megafonen which works with youth in deprived areas, accused police of being heavy-handed and targeting immigrants indiscriminately. Cuts in services and closures of youth centers have fuelled discontent, said its spokesman Rami al-Khamisi.

Premier calls for calm

Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who heads a center-right government, told the news agency TT that "burning your neighbor's car is not an example of freedom of speech, it's hooliganism." He appealed to "everyone" to take responsibility for restoring calm.

Stockholm police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said "around 30" cars had been set ablaze in the greater Stockholm area as rioting spread to southern Stockholm.
A school and a nursery had been torched and rocks thrown at police and firefighters.

'Failed integration,' says Reinfeldt

On Tuesday, Reinfeldt referred to heated Swedish debate on immigration by attributing the outburst to failed integration.
"Sweden is a country that receives large groups from other countries. I'm proud of that," he said, adding that the government had sought to improve Swedish language education.

The anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party, which has risen to third in surveys ahead of a general election due next year, said the Stockholm riots were the result of an "irresponsible" immigration policy.
"Never before has so much money been spent on immigrant-heavy suburbs as today," party leader Jimmie Aakesson told the daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

Anna-Margrethe Livh of the opposition Left Party wrote in the Svenska Dagbladet: "We have failed to give many of the people in the suburbs a hope for the future,"

Social welfare benefits reduced

Reinfeldt's center-right government has over six years reduced social welfare benefits for which Sweden once had a world-wide reputation. As a result sharp inequalities have emerged, according to the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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.

Some 15 percent of Sweden's 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.

OECD figures also show that Reinfeldt's reforms, as well as earlier changes, some under the Social Democrats, introduced since a 1990s crisis, have given Sweden the steepest increase in inequality over 15 years amongst the 34 members of the organization.

Youth rioting in Stockholm, PM calls for calm | News | DW.DE | 22.05.2013

 

[Type Username Here]

Poor Sweden. They made their bed and now have to sleep in it.

 

[88m3]

A lot of these immigrants just don't belong in Europe...

 

[IrishBrother]

Poor Sweden. They made their bed and now have to sleep in it.

They must not have been paying the refugees enough cash to learn to speak Swedish

 

[IrishBrother]

A lot of these immigrants just don't belong in Europe...

Some of the Swedish main parties want complete open borders. Such hard workers, these lads. Able to riot for four days straight and hold down full time jobs.

Such ingenuity

 

[Broke Wave]

People on the left do NOT believe in unfettered immigration, or the hierarchy of labour. The Neo-Liberal Centre-Right wingers have made Europe into a free-for-all zone for immigration and it is having its backlashes. The idea was that once all these poor brown people take all the shytty jobs the indigenous population would be able to move up into managerial posistions or technologically advanced ones, freeing up more skilled workers from shytty jobs.

What a terrible fukking idea as a result you spammed just about everybody from every fukked up country on earth into one place without really any safety net or jobs into some cramped estates.


This is how its done from the true founders of this shyt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism_in_Canada

 

[Type Username Here]

Don't understand why you would be proud of this. This shines a very negative light on the Somalian community in Sweden (along with other Islamic communities from Iraq and Iran).

The Swedes bent over backwards to help the Somalian people while facing ridicule in Europe, you know this.

Gave them public housing, some of the best social benefits on the planet, underwent a massive tolerance campaign for their citizens, fantastic education opportunities, religious freedom and financing, etc..


This just gives more and more fuel to the Right Wing/Anti-Immigration crowd.

 

[gho3st]

A lot of these immigrants just don't belong in Europe...

muslims

 

[Broke Wave]

Don't understand why you would be proud of this. This shines a very negative light on the Somalian community in Sweden (along with other Islamic communities from Iraq and Iran).

The Swedes bent over backwards to help the Somalian people while facing ridicule in Europe, you know this.

Gave them public housing, some of the best social benefits on the planet, underwent a massive tolerance campaign for their citizens, fantastic education opportunities, religious freedom and financing, etc..


This just gives more and more fuel to the Right Wing/Anti-Immigration crowd.

Read my clarified post breh.

The Swedish government didn't bend over backwards to help the Somali* people, that to me is an unfair characterization. Furthermore simply because a people are accommodating to you (even very accommodating), should you allow them to abuse you? They were brought there as cheap labour, we both know economics and the principle of low-birth rate at a peak stage of development. The Police killed an old man who wasn't Somali. If I was in Sweden, I would protest but not riot. These people we're brought in as a upper-class version of the lower-class in comparison to the rest of the world. When you play the dehumanizing game of Neo-Liberalism, this is what you get and DESERVE.

How many millions of white indigenous protesters are tearing down their home cities in Spain for the exact same reasons? Greece? Coincidences usually do not exist in terms of political sentiments.

 

[88m3]

muslims

nah, I'm not even saying that bro



If all you want to do is commit crime, not learn the language, and collect welfare fukk off.

 

[gho3st]

nah, I'm not even saying that bro



If all you want to do is commit crime, not learn the language, and collect welfare fukk off.

yo when muslims move to immigrate to other countries, they dont conform to that countries social rules/culture/laws. They expect that country to adjust to them. Once they have a significant population and you still dont adjust to them, well you now have a bigger problem on your hand

 

[Type Username Here]

Read my clarified post breh.

The Swedish government didn't bend over backwards to help the Somali* people, that to me is an unfair characterization. Furthermore simply because a people are accommodating to you (even very accommodating), should you allow them to abuse you? They were brought there as cheap labour, we both know economics and the principle of low-birth rate at a peak stage of development. The Police killed an old man who wasn't Somali. If I was in Sweden, I would protest but not riot. These people we're brought in as a upper-class version of the lower-class in comparison to the rest of the world. When you play the dehumanizing game of Neo-Liberalism, this is what you get and DESERVE.

How many millions of white indigenous protesters are tearing down their home cities in Spain for the exact same reasons? Greece? Coincidences usually do not exist in terms of political sentiments.

I don't share your views on this matter. They might have been brought in as cheap labour, but they had some of the greatest state assistance that exists on this planet, and with paid education and healthcare not even found by the Lower Middle Class in the United States. They failed to assimilate by their own choosing.

This man being killed just added the last drop to the overflowing bathtub and the reasons for protesting this man's death might be entirely legitimate, but the tension that exists predates this.

 

[IrishBrother]

Read my clarified post breh.

The Swedish government didn't bend over backwards to help the Somali* people, that to me is an unfair characterization. Furthermore simply because a people are accommodating to you (even very accommodating), should you allow them to abuse you? They were brought there as cheap labour, we both know economics and the principle of low-birth rate at a peak stage of development. The Police killed an old man who wasn't Somali. If I was in Sweden, I would protest but not riot. These people we're brought in as a upper-class version of the lower-class in comparison to the rest of the world. When you play the dehumanizing game of Neo-Liberalism, this is what you get and DESERVE.

How many millions of white indigenous protesters are tearing down their home cities in Spain for the exact same reasons? Greece? Coincidences usually do not exist in terms of political sentiments.

They came to Sweden as refugees - not as cheap labour. Hell, look up their welfare stats. And the dude the cops smoked was seen wandering around the area brandishing a machete. They approached him at his residence, he charged them and they took him down. There were unarmed females in the property. The cops had no other option.



Ffs like. Protesting for more freebies in a country that took them in and paid them high welfare rates. Its a bit much.

 

[Broke Wave]

I don't share your views on this matter. They might have been brought in as cheap labour, but they had some of the greatest state assistance that exists on this planet, and with paid education and healthcare not even found by the Lower Middle Class in the United States. They failed to assimilate by their own choosing.

This man being killed just added the last drop to the overflowing bathtub and the reasons for protesting this man's death might be entirely legitimate, but the tension that exists predates this.

Assimilation of poor people into a foreign society takes a little longer than... 2 decades... ask the Paisans

According to Statistics Sweden, there were 31,734 immigrants from Somalia in 2009.[17] Most arrived as asylum seekers and through family reunification services in the 1990s and the 2000s (decade). Since the mid-2000s (decade), there has been an increasing secondary migration of Somali immigrants and EU citizens from Sweden and other Scandinavian countries toward the United Kingdom. This exodus has been attributed to a desire to reunite with family members, to find work and to obtain international education in an environment that is perceived as friendlier.[18]

There are more than 50,000 ethnic Albanians in Sweden. They come from all Albanian dominated parts of the Balkans (see Great Albania).Many Albanians came from Kosovo in early 1990s because of the wars in the Balkans (se Yugoslav wars).

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As of 31 December 2009 there are 56,127[16] people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina living in Sweden. This figure doesn't include Yugoslavs of Bosnian and Herzegovinian origin who immigrated before 1992. Most of these immigrants came to Sweden during the Bosnian war in the 1990s.

These are the Muslim Groups in Sweden, all of them came mostly in the mid 90's

Economic tensions rise... ethnic tensions rise.

They came to Sweden as refugees - not as cheap labour. Hell, look up their welfare stats. And the dude the cops smoked was seen wandering around the area brandishing a machete. They approached him at his residence, he charged them and they took him down. There were unarmed females in the property. The cops had no other option.

Somalis in Sweden evicted, demand free housing and more money. - YouTube

Ffs like. Protesting for more freebies in a country that took them in and paid them high welfare rates. Its a bit much.

You think a country accepts people as immigrants for humanitarian purposes? If you are that naiive then

It was all part of the Neo-Liberal scam of the last 30 some years. Lured them in with the promise of cheap this and free that, and when they pull the rug from under them, its time to work for the reduced wages and longer hours, after we've eroded the power of the unions. That's how the game is played

 

[Broke Wave]

Somali's are probably the most forgiving people of all time... immigration is a funny subject. If Somali's had any sense they would go to the UK and Italy, and treat them the same way they treated Somali's when they we're their "house guests".

But of course nobody wants to talk about that