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On 20 February 2017, rioting 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.
The Stockholm metro station Rinkeby metro station, Rinkeby was also o ...
, a predominantly
immigrant-populated suburb of the Swedish capital
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
.
Rinkeby was previously the site of riots in
2010
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and
2013
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.
Events
Rioting broke out in the evenings between Monday, 20 February - Thursday, 23 February, with a crowd of 25 to 30 masked men who assembled after a drug-related arrest near the Metro station.
In four hours of unrest, several fires were started, at least seven cars burnt, shops vandalized and police
hit with rocks. One rioter was arrested for rock throwing.
The fire department had to wait for the police to secure the area before being able to extinguish the
burning cars.
A number of shops were
looted and a business owner was assaulted after having tried to stop the attackers.
According to Lars Bystrom, a police spokesman, a police officer "shot for effect" with intent to hit his target, but missed, and to clear the scene so the police could make an arrest.
A photographer from ''
Dagens Nyheter'' newspaper said he was assaulted by a group of around 15 people.
The Swedish police were criticized by local residents for taking too long to subdue the rioters and not doing enough to stop them.
President Trump's remark
Because the riots broke out two days after the president of the United States of America,
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
,
mentioned a Fox News segment he had seen about Sweden the night before, the Rinkeby riots of 2017 drew wide international attention. The president was mocked for the remarks by the international press, as well as Swedish officials.
See also
* 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 ...
* 2009 Malmö anti-Israel riots
The 2009 Malmö Davis Cup riots were anti-Israel riots in the Swedish city of Malmö against a Davis Cup tennis match 2009 Davis Cup World Group#Sweden vs. Israel, between Sweden and Israel on 7 March 2009.
Background
In February, the tennis match ...
* 2016 social unrest in Sweden
* Arson attacks on asylum centres in Sweden During the European migrant crisis, refugee asylum centers in Sweden have been the target of a series of arson attacks thought to have been carried out by ideologically-motivated anti-immigration nationalist Swedes.
In September 2015, 4 refugee c ...
* We Are Sthlm sexual assaults
Dozens of reported sexual assaults in 2014 and 2015 at We Are Sthlm, a youth festival in the Swedish capital Stockholm, were not publicized by the police. The Stockholm police had received 38 reports of sexual harassment at We Are Sthlm in 2014 and ...
* 2003 & 2005 Malmö mosque arson attack
* 2010 & 2012 Malmö synagogue arson attack
References
External links
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