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Multiculturalism failing: Stockholm suburbs enflamed with riots for days, Swedish PM calls to get neighborhoods back
Hundreds youths hurling rocks, burning cars and smashing windows for the second day in a row in Stockholm say they are protesting against police brutality and inequality. In Sweden, critics of the multiculturalism policies lash out at immigration laws.
Seven policemen were injured, at least ten cars and countless containers set on fire, and dozens of windows smashed in several heavily immigrant-populated neighborhoods of the Swedish capital on Tuesday.
The police said some 300 people are now taking part in riots, which started in protest against the shooting of a man allegedly armed with a knife in the Stockholm district of Husby. The protesters also cited beatings and discriminative derogatory remarks of the officers.
The protester are mainly young, the police said. Of the seven rioters arrested on Tuesday only four were detained, two of them later released, and one turned out to be underage.
All of the men arrested on suspicion of violent rioting and assaulting a public official were aged between 15 and 19, the police said.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Tuesday commented on the matter, urging a halt to the violence, but acknowledged in the short term that may be unlikely.
We have groups of young men who think that that they can and should change society with violence. Lets be clear: This is not okay. We cannot be ruled by violence, Reinfeldt said as cited by the Local.
He also urged everyone, including parents and adults to help restore calm.
Husby residents must get their neighborhood back, Reinfeldt stressed, speaking of the district, where around 80 percent of about 11,000 residents are first- or second-generation immigrants. This particular district has seen employment increasing and crime falling in the last seven years, Reinfeldt added, speaking of the right direction it has been going.
But not everyone agreed with Reinfeldts assessment of immigrant-populated Swedish districts development, with critics saying the integration policies of the country and that of the whole of Western Europe are not working.
This is a clear consequence of this multiculturalism politics that Sweden adopted around 80s and increased in the 90s... And this is not a unique one single occasion we have had these ethnic-based riots against Swedish authorities. We have seen this in Western Europe, that is very sad, and I think we will see more of this, if we dont change the politics, the chairman of the Swedens National Democrats Party Marc Abramsson told RT.
While not elaborating on the incident that caused the current riots, Abramsson said all such incidents have a common problem beneath that is, the immigrants not identifying themselves with the countrys society, nor accepting the countrys authorities, sticking only to their own ethnic group.
Sweden has been trying harder than any of the countries in Europe to try to push for integration. We have invested virtually billions from taxpayers money into it, we have tried everything that the scientists have presented and still its not working, the politician argued.
They live in their area, and they feel the area is their own. And when the police arrive, they feel they are you intruding into their, sort of, country. The police who work in these areas, there have to be in two cars, one protecting the other. People are trying to maintain buildings, to have security guards, the fire department cant work, they get attacked by angry immigrant youth that feel like theyre intruding into their own area, even though theyre trying to help, Abramsson went on to say.
?Multiculturalism failing?: Stockholm suburbs enflamed with riots for days, Swedish PM calls to get neighborhoods ?back? ? RT News
What is your take on what is happening?
I would like to hear people from the region, if they can provide more insight on what is happening and why.
Hundreds youths hurling rocks, burning cars and smashing windows for the second day in a row in Stockholm say they are protesting against police brutality and inequality. In Sweden, critics of the multiculturalism policies lash out at immigration laws.
Seven policemen were injured, at least ten cars and countless containers set on fire, and dozens of windows smashed in several heavily immigrant-populated neighborhoods of the Swedish capital on Tuesday.
The police said some 300 people are now taking part in riots, which started in protest against the shooting of a man allegedly armed with a knife in the Stockholm district of Husby. The protesters also cited beatings and discriminative derogatory remarks of the officers.
The protester are mainly young, the police said. Of the seven rioters arrested on Tuesday only four were detained, two of them later released, and one turned out to be underage.
All of the men arrested on suspicion of violent rioting and assaulting a public official were aged between 15 and 19, the police said.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Tuesday commented on the matter, urging a halt to the violence, but acknowledged in the short term that may be unlikely.
We have groups of young men who think that that they can and should change society with violence. Lets be clear: This is not okay. We cannot be ruled by violence, Reinfeldt said as cited by the Local.
He also urged everyone, including parents and adults to help restore calm.
Husby residents must get their neighborhood back, Reinfeldt stressed, speaking of the district, where around 80 percent of about 11,000 residents are first- or second-generation immigrants. This particular district has seen employment increasing and crime falling in the last seven years, Reinfeldt added, speaking of the right direction it has been going.
But not everyone agreed with Reinfeldts assessment of immigrant-populated Swedish districts development, with critics saying the integration policies of the country and that of the whole of Western Europe are not working.
This is a clear consequence of this multiculturalism politics that Sweden adopted around 80s and increased in the 90s... And this is not a unique one single occasion we have had these ethnic-based riots against Swedish authorities. We have seen this in Western Europe, that is very sad, and I think we will see more of this, if we dont change the politics, the chairman of the Swedens National Democrats Party Marc Abramsson told RT.
While not elaborating on the incident that caused the current riots, Abramsson said all such incidents have a common problem beneath that is, the immigrants not identifying themselves with the countrys society, nor accepting the countrys authorities, sticking only to their own ethnic group.
Sweden has been trying harder than any of the countries in Europe to try to push for integration. We have invested virtually billions from taxpayers money into it, we have tried everything that the scientists have presented and still its not working, the politician argued.
They live in their area, and they feel the area is their own. And when the police arrive, they feel they are you intruding into their, sort of, country. The police who work in these areas, there have to be in two cars, one protecting the other. People are trying to maintain buildings, to have security guards, the fire department cant work, they get attacked by angry immigrant youth that feel like theyre intruding into their own area, even though theyre trying to help, Abramsson went on to say.
?Multiculturalism failing?: Stockholm suburbs enflamed with riots for days, Swedish PM calls to get neighborhoods ?back? ? RT News
What is your take on what is happening?
I would like to hear people from the region, if they can provide more insight on what is happening and why.
