Swedish Youth Riots Enter Third Day
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-22/swedish-youth-riots-enter-third-day
The disorder has intensified despite a call for calm from Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.Last night, rioters attacked the police station in the Jakosberg area in the northwest of the city and set fire to 30 cars....Groups of youths also smashed shop windows and burned down a 19th Century cultural centre.Gangs of up to 60 set fire to a school and a nursery and hurled rocks at police and firefighters....While average living standards are still among the highest in Europe, governments have failed to substantially reduce long-term youth unemployment and poverty, which have affected immigrant communities worst.Some 15 per cent of the population is foreign-born, the highest proportion in the Nordic region....Among 44 industrialized countries, Sweden ranked fourth in the absolute number of asylum seekers, and second relative to its population, according to U.N. figures....
Around 200 people hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a Stockholm suburb......Around 80 percent of the roughly 11,000 residents of the suburbs are first- or second-generation immigrants....Many local residents see the shooting as an example of police brutality, and the violence has stirred debate in Sweden....Horniak claimed he witnessed police firing warning shots in the air and calling a woman a "monkey.""I got upset yesterday because I saw police attack innocent people, they beat a woman with a baton," he said.Horniak's claims of racist remarks were backed up by the organisation Megafonen, which represents citizens in Stockholm's suburbs.