On June 8 and June 9, 2010, youth riots broke out in
Rinkeby
Rinkeby () is a stadsdel, district in the Rinkeby-Kista borough, Stockholm, Sweden. Rinkeby had 19,349 inhabitants in 2016. The neighbourhood was part of the Million Programme.
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a suburb dominated by
Muslim immigrant residents, in northern
Stockholm
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,
Sweden
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. Up to 100 Muslim youths threw bricks, set fires and attacked the local police station in Rinkeby.
It was among the earliest urban riots by Muslim immigrant youth in Sweden.
Rioting
The riot broke out late on the evening of 8 June, when a group of young adults were refused admittance to a junior high school dance; angered, they responded by throwing rocks through the windows of the school. From there, the rioting spread.
Rioting continued for two nights.
Police estimate that about 100 young men participated in the rioting, throwing bricks, setting fires and attacking the police station.
Rioters threw rocks at police, attacked a police station and burned down a school, throwing rocks at responding fire engines and preventing fire fighters from reaching the school in time to save the building.
Analysis
Social activist
George Lakey
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describes the 2010 Rinkeby riots as among the earliest riots by migrant youth in Sweden.
Founder of
iona Institute
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David Quinn linked the riots to immigration of
Muslims
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blaming "the mainstream political parties, aided for the most part by the mainstream media," for abetting the rise of right wing political movement by "refus(ing) to permit an open and honest debate about" the causes of this and other riots by immigrant youth, and also by ignoring the "anti-Semitism, sex abuse, voter fraud," in immigrant communities.
Sociologist
Peggy Levitt
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attributes the riots to anger over "long-term youth unemployment and poverty."
Background
Rinkeby is noted for its high concentration of
immigrants
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and people with immigrant ancestry. 89.1% of the population of Rinkeby had a first- or second-generation immigrant background as of 31 December 2007.
See also
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2017 Rinkeby riots
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2013 Stockholm riots
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2016 Sweden riots
On 15 May 2016, unrest occurred simultaneously in the Swedish towns of Norrköping and Borlänge, primarily in Million Programme Muslim-dominated public housing-areas, with stone-throwing against police and firefighters, car fires and arson ...
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2008 Malmö mosque riots On December 18 and 20, 2008, the closure of an Islamic cultural centre that housed a mosque in the Herrgården neighborhood of the Malmö district of Rosengård, in southern Sweden, caused hundreds of youths to riot against police.
The riot, though ...
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2009 Malmö anti-Israel riots
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2013 Trappes riots
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2011 English riots
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2009 French riots
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2007 Villiers-le-Bel riots
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2006 Brussels riots
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2005 French riots
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