Rioting erupts in immigrant-dominated Swedish suburb
Riots erupted in a heavily immigrant Stockholm suburb Monday night, as masked looters set cars ablaze and threw rocks at cops, injuring one police officer, Swedish officials said.
TRUMP MAY HAVE BEEN UNCLEAR, BUT SWEDEN IS EXPERIENCING A MIGRANT CRIME WAVE
A policeman investigates a burned car in the suburb of Rinkeby on Monday. (AP)
The violence in Rinkeby began around 8 p.m., when officers arrested a suspect at an underground station on drug charges, The Local reported. A group soon gathered, hurling rocks and other objects at officers and prompting one cop to fire his gun “in a situation that demanded he use his firearm,” police spokesman Lars Bystrom said.
“But nobody has been found injured at the scene and we have checked the hospitals and there hasn’t been anyone with what could be gunshot wounds,” Bystrom added.
It came just days after President Trump was mocked during a Saturday campaign rally for mentioning Sweden alongside a list of European targets of terror. Trump later said his “You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden” remark was in response to a Fox News report on the country’s refugee crime crisis that aired on Friday evening.
“Sweden. They took in large numbers [of refugees],” Trump added at the Florida rally. “They’re having problems like they never thought possible.”
Sweden’s official Twitter account – which is operated by a different user each week – tweeted at Trump on Monday morning: “Hey Don, this is @Sweden speaking! It’s nice of you to care, really, but don’t fall for the hype. Facts: We’re OK!”
Hours later, the Rinkeby riots began, with a second wave starting around 10:30 p.m. Seven or eight cars were set on fire and many stores saw looting, The Local reported. A photographer from media outlet Dagens Nyheter said a group of 15 people beat him as he tried to document the chaos.
“I was hit with a lot of punches and kicks both to my body and my head. I have spent the night in hospital,” said the photographer, who was not named.
The rioting ended just after midnight.
No arrests were made; however, reports were filed on three violent acts, violence against a police officer, two assaults, vandalism and aggravated thefts, authorities said.
Rinkeby is the same area where an Australian "60 Minutes " crew was attacked by a group of men in April 2016. The film crew was attempting to enter a so-called “no go zone,” which authorities deny they use as a label. Rinkeby, however, has been officially classified as one of 15 “particularly vulnerable” areas across Sweden.
The country's prime minister, Stefan Lofven, said Monday, "Yes, we have challenges like all other countries. There's no doubt. We have a situation in the world where 65 million people had to flee their countries last year, the year before that. 65 million. So that's a war for us together." He also said Sweden was investing more in housing, technology and its welfare system.
Reports of rapes in Sweden jumped 13 percent in 2016 compared to the previous year, and reports of sexual assaults were up 20 percent, according to preliminary data from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention.
Recent migration to Sweden hit its peak in 2015 with more than 160,000 asylum applications. It dropped to almost 30,000 in 2016.
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Perhaps they were a bit quick to mock Trump on his comment.
People mocked Trump's inability to string a couple coherent sentences together.
He said something happened "last night" that didn't happen that night. He needs to learn how to speak in public before he gets people killed.
So you agree his statement was accurate except for the date? After I found this I looked on Youtube and was shocked at how big the problem really is..
The media throughout Europe, Scandanavia and Great Britain do not publish what is happening there, for fear of being accused of Islamophobia, being targeted, attacked and even killed for it as has happened not so long ago, and/or being charged with an offence that those governments have created in order to perpetuate excessive PC.
So, like our former president BO, they don't speak of it and embolden those committing the atrocities. To make matters worse they call anyone who does dare to speak the truth racist.
He did misspeak, but anyone with an ounce of sense would realize when you put the who statement together, he was talking about the video he saw the night before, not a terrorist attack the night before.
But the MSM who are really getting even worse than I could have imagined twisted it, knowing full well they were doing so.
And another article also pushed the idea of the "White Power" sign, knowing full well it wasn't true. Even the liberal site Snopes said the accusation was false. They didn't push this idea......
A day or two ago all the Leftist sites were pushing this as a "White Power" sign. I mean it was all over the internet.
He needs to learn how to speak in public before he gets people killed.
Or use a teleprompter every time he has something to say.
Right. No president should utter a word that was not prepared by someone else./s
They have a muslim problem no doubt about it.
Sweden needs trump.
While the liberals here are working to enable the same crisis in the US.