Youths in Swedish towns burn and vandalize scores of cars

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Youths in Swedish towns burn and vandalize scores of cars

 

Burned cars are pictured at Frolunda Square in Gothenburg, Sweden, August 14, 2018. Adam Ihse/TT News Agency/via REUTERS

 

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Youths torched and vandalised scores of cars in the Swedish city of Gothenburg and surrounding towns and Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Tuesday the disturbances looked organised "almost like a military operation".

 

It was unclear what triggered Monday night's unrest but Sweden has seen a rise in violence in areas with high unemployment and other social problems and the incident echoed rioting in the capital Stockholm in 2013.

 

Mounting public concern about gang-related and other violence has become a central issue in campaigning ahead of a national election on Sept. 9.

 

Police said that up to 100 cars were either set fire to or vandalised in Gothenburg, Sweden's second-biggest city located in the western part of the country, and in nearby towns such as Falkenberg and Trollhattan, an industrial area with high unemployment. There were no reports of injuries.

 

Two men, 16 and 21 years old, were arrested on Tuesday and police said it expected to make more arrests during the day.

 

Police said gangs were involved but gave no details.

 

Swedish towns have seen sporadic violence on a smaller scale in mid-August in recent years at the end of the school summer break.

"We believe that up to 100 cars have been burned or damaged," police spokeswoman Ulla Brehm said.

 

"They were organised and prepared."

 

A handful of cars were also burned overnight in Stockholm.

 

"It seems very organised, almost like a military operation," Lofven said in an interview on Swedish radio. "Society is always going to react strongly to this kind of thing." Lofven visited the region on Tuesday and met police.

 

The violence echoed rioting by hundreds of youths in Stockholm and some of its poorer suburbs in 2013, sparked by the police killing of a 69-year-old man wielding a machete in a suburb that prompted accusations of police brutality.

 

Law and order is a key issue ahead of the election after a spike in gang violence saw more than 40 people shot dead last year.

 

Despite economic growth that has for years been the envy of most of Europe, Lofven's Social Democrats, the bigger party in the current minority coalition, are on track for their worst ever election result, according to opinion polls.

 

Voters also worry about the welfare system, falling school results and the effects of a surge in immigration that saw around 160,000 people seek asylum in Sweden in 2015.

 

The concerns have benefited the populist, anti-immigration Sweden Democrats who look poised to become one of the three biggest parties in parliament after the vote.

 

Sweden's general election: https://tmsnrt.rs/2LmSZFD

 

(Reporting by Simon Johnson, Johan Sennero and Daniel Dickson; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-08-15

[DM07]

So far unfounded insults against immigrants, the Swedish government and the lying press in 5...4...3...

[Wallander4]

Thanks for these criminal acts, invaders - that's gonna give Sweden Democrats a landslide victory next month

 

Invite the Middle East and you get Middle East daily life

[Rigby40]

1 hour ago, DM07 said:

So far unfounded insults against immigrants, the Swedish government and the lying press in 5...4...3...

Destructive, no good immigrants are the first thing that popped into your head too huh? Same here.

[AsiaHand]

Sounds like the Swedish youth are getting more like the crazys in The US. Jail the AXXHOLES for about two years or so .

[lanista]

If the perps were white Swedes the media would have said so, same goes for the lunatic who mowed down several cyclists in Westminster yesterday......Nothing yet.   However a  pic shows an African being whisked away by cops for counselling and comfort --no doubt.   You have to assume the  youths in Sweden were muslim immigrants because the media have said nothing.

RT news network will be the first to release the facts. They always are.

Edited August 15, 2018 by lanista

[bert bloggs]

Yes when we are not told who the perps are ,you can bet your life savings they are not "native" to that country

[DM07]

1 hour ago, Rigby40 said:

Destructive, no good immigrants are the first thing that popped into your head too huh? Same here.

You are not good on sarcasm, huh?!

[wolf81]

1 hour ago, lanista said:

If the perps were white Swedes the media would have said so, same goes for the lunatic who mowed down several cyclists in Westminster yesterday......Nothing yet.   However a  pic shows an African being whisked away by cops for counselling and comfort --no doubt.   You have to assume the  youths in Sweden were muslim immigrants because the media have said nothing.

RT news network will be the first to release the facts. They always are.

Political Correctness is a hell of a drug.

[Rigby40]

4 minutes ago, DM07 said:

You are not good on sarcasm, huh?!

You missed my point completely.

[billmichael]

1 hour ago, lanista said:

If the perps were white Swedes the media would have said so, same goes for the lunatic who mowed down several cyclists in Westminster yesterday......Nothing yet.   However a  pic shows an African being whisked away by cops for counselling and comfort --no doubt.   You have to assume the  youths in Sweden were muslim immigrants because the media have said nothing.

RT news network will be the first to release the facts. They always are.

Of course it is Muslim immigrants rampaging.  You are spot on.  If the criminals were "white" the media would have pointed this out, but, NOooo, they were Muslim immigrants and the media does not want native Swedes to get excited over the behaviour of their "new neighbors".  The "media", world-wide, must think people are stupid.

[DM07]

9 minutes ago, Rigby40 said:

You missed my point completely.

Yeah?

I don't think so!

 

[Kasset Tak]

Yeah, too much migrants in Sweden today, 25% of the population is migrants or "first generation" Swedes and it keeps getting worse as everything have to be PC when it's regarding migrants (but not native Swedes...). That's why I'm a Swedish refuge in Thailand...

[Grouse]

Trollhatten was the HQ and main manufacturing plant of SAAB. The thinking person's automobile. Shut down by GM. Bad move. Mass unemployment and immigrants given preferential treatment. SD will fix this.

[DefaultName]

8 minutes ago, car720 said:

Sounds a lot like Melbourne these days.  Why the hell do we take them?

Bleeding heart politicians who don't put their own country first.

 

They keep saying "migrants" and "refugees", call them what they are; an invading army, who have destroyed the countries they started in, so now they want to destroy ours.  Actually, they probably don't "want" to destroy, they simply don't know how to behave in a civilised fashion, and their clergy don't help with that at all.

[connda]

Sweden reacting as Sweden does best - with politically correct action so not to offend the migrate communities.  The children just need a good talking to and a time out.  <headshake> 

[sammieuk1]

Looks like a very Saab day for the owners?

[lovelomsak]

It has gotten to the point for me that I just do not care any more.  Most  world leaders now do not do things for their country. They do it for votes to stay in power and control and get rich.

  Many young people buy into the idea we must help all these refuges and illegal immigrants. Well kiddies you reap what you sow.

  I will be long dead when the youth of today have to face every day of their lives the consequences of their actions during these times. When the world goes from peaceful to non peaceful every where. Good countries destroyed  by refuges and immigrants. 

  It does not matter that in the past immigration was needed and a good thing that is history. Immigration now is tool to place enough people inside a country to allow them to destroy the very fabric of that country that made it desirable.

  The youth want it they will get it up to them.

  I am sure this problem reported in this thread is a direct result of refugees and immigration.

[Peasandmash]

Goodbye Sweden, hello Swedenstan. Welcome to the new world order. Non-believers get ready to say your prayers.

[dirtynomad]

this is what liberalism get's you.

 

 

[lust]

Just some harmless cultural enrichment by your new foreign friends. ?

[Snow Leopard]

Did IKEA increase their prices? 

[car720]

3 hours ago, DefaultName said:

Bleeding heart politicians who don't put their own country first.

 

They keep saying "migrants" and "refugees", call them what they are; an invading army, who have destroyed the countries they started in, so now they want to destroy ours.  Actually, they probably don't "want" to destroy, they simply don't know how to behave in a civilised fashion, and their clergy don't help with that at all.

I didn't think monkeys had clergy.

[Krataiboy]

Ah, the joys of multiculturalism. . . 

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Kasset Tak said:

Yeah, too much migrants in Sweden today, 25% of the population is migrants or "first generation" Swedes and it keeps getting worse as everything have to be PC when it's regarding migrants (but not native Swedes...). That's why I'm a Swedish refuge in Thailand...

This sounded way too large number. Sweden's population is about 10 million, therefore there would be 2.5 million migrants / foreign ethnic groups. 

 

Of those 2.5 million, Finns are about 20% 500.000.

 

Sweden has taken a lot of non-EU people of origin in to the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden

 

 

[Grouse]

1 hour ago, oilinki said:

This sounded way too large number. Sweden's population is about 10 million, therefore there would be 2.5 million migrants / foreign ethnic groups. 

 

Of those 2.5 million, Finns are about 20% 500.000.

 

Sweden has taken a lot of non-EU people of origin in to the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden

 

 

Swedes have been archetypal Scandinavians in their generosity to asylum seekers. I applaud them for that.

 

However their generosity has been abused.

 

Swedish youth are rebelling and who can blame them? (Hence the police response)

 

Sadly, the SD will come in to clear the mess. The Swedes have historically been powerful. I hope the SD are not in power for long but right now this is the penultimate solution. (Does anyone here see the irony of SD?)

[jenny2017]

No worries. Soon they'll be in Thailand and drink until they get hit by high heels of some ladyboys. 

[vogie]

8 hours ago, DM07 said:

Yeah?

I don't think so!

 

You must constantly think to yourself, why is everybody wrong but me.

[jenny2017]

3 hours ago, Krataiboy said:

Ah, the joys of multiculturalism. . . 

...doesn't fit with people who usually hide out in a forest.

[jenny2017]

6 hours ago, Snow Leopard said:

Did IKEA increase their prices? 

Nope. The decreased the quality.