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Swedish city calm after young immigrants riot
 Hundreds of After cars and garbage bins were set ablaze and stones were thrown against police in violent clashes on Wednesday and Thursday in the heavily immigrant populated neighborhood of Rosengaard, The troubles began as a quiet protest linked to the recent closure of an Islamic cultural centre in Rosengaard that housed a mosque, but have spread to become a general expression of discontent among disadvantaged The police "think they can appease us by joking with us, but they hassle us all the time, they arrest us for nothing and then they're surprised that we fight back," Ahmed Baccar, a 20-year-old unemployed Palestinian with a shaved head, told AFP. "And they hit 11- and 12-year-old kids, set their dogs on us like they did yesterday, and then you want us to like them," said his friend Rached El Ali, an 18-year-old Palestinian. Police reinforcements had been called in from Stockholm and Gothenburg. While the evening was primarily calm, demonstrators did set off firecrackers and five cars and several large garbage bins were set on fire, police said. Five people were arrested. Posted by: Fred 2008-12-22 |
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