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Stockholm burning: Riots grip surburbs as violent trouble spreads

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ElenorRigby · 24/05/2013 08:13

"Huge swathes of Stockholm were in ruins today after a fourth night of rioting left hundreds of cars ablaze and saw mobs attacking police with bricks.

The violence, which began in the immigrant enclave of Husby on Sunday night after police shot an elderly man who threatened them with a machete, has now spread to 15 suburbs.

It has morphed into a protest by largely immigrant demonstrators about underlying racism in Swedish society - and an apparent lack of employment opportunities.

Last night, officers battled desperately to keep the city under control as a police station was set alight and fire services were kept from a major blaze by an angry stone-throwing mob"
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DontMeanToBeRudeBut · 24/05/2013 20:35

It doesn't surprise me. I used to live in Stockholm and the racism and race-related poverty there is grim. As bad as anything in Paris or France.

DontMeanToBeRudeBut · 24/05/2013 20:35

London, not France!

StuffezLaYoni · 24/05/2013 20:36

Why are the bbc not reporting this on their website?

harbinger · 24/05/2013 20:44

I was aware of this but could not find out the reason for the riots. The BBC was very poor.

DontMeanToBeRudeBut · 24/05/2013 20:45

They are.

musu · 24/05/2013 20:57

This was reported earlier in the week on all of the news programmes I heard (BBC radio).

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