Stockholm on fire for the fifth night in a row as youth clash further with the police while destroying properties

Friday, 24 May 2013
Three schools and a police station were set on fire as persistent unrest continues for the fifth night in a row in the Swedish capital Stockholm and its immediate periphery.

Cars, schools and police stood overnight to Friday again  as fires erupted once more in Stockholm's suburbs, where young people for the fifth night in a row took more action in their hands to ask for recognition through arson, vandalism and stone's throwing at the police.

It all started yesterday from immigrant populated district of Rinkeby where as early as 10 pm Swedish time, at least fives cars where already on fire, and according to a police spokesman over 500 young people gathered at Rinkebytorvet or the town central to start confrontation.
Unrest was observed in various parts of Stockholm, including in Kista in northwestern Stockholm where a major fire was set the Montessori school.  In Älvsjö south of Stockholm a police station was set on fire, and there was reported of other form of destruction and industrial disturbances.
"The fire at the police station is off. There has also been damage to several shops around Älvsjö station," said police spokeswoman, Towe Hägg.
Also in Fornhöjden, southwest of Stockholm there were several cars on fire the night of Friday, and police moved into the area around midnight to hunt down the culprits.
They were met with stones and says that more cars were set on fire, according to Hägg.
Police and firefighters also had to move into Tensta northwest of Stockholm, which a school was being burnt. Schools in Kista and Norsborg were also in flames.

In Farsta south of Stockholm windows of a police car was crushed, and in Norsborg police stopped a car with four people who are suspected of planning additional arson.

The riots was triggered by an event in Husby, just outside Stockholm  last week, where police shot and killed a 69-year-old man with an immigrant background. The man swung a jungle machete when he was shot. His acted as a trigger to previously held  resentment of the way these class and group of people thought they were being treated in the Swedish society. Social and economic deprivation as well as police brutality led to this anger, which is persisting.
As this situation exposes the two faces of the Swedish society, it is not clear what is going on in terms of policy.
by Scancomarl.com Team