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Swedish city calm after young immigrants riot
2008-12-22
Hundreds of youts youths who have rioted against police in the southern Swedish town of Malmoe for two straight nights this week gathered again late Friday but no serious clashes took place.

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, youts youths assembled relatively quietly on Friday. They were watched by a large police deployment that had switched to a new tactic of engaging them in dialogue in a bid to prevent a third night of riots.

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 youts youths.

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

#11  Time for the party to end and the guests to leave.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2008-12-22 20:27  

#10  The door to any country works both ways.
Posted by: Grinert Ghibelline2247   2008-12-22 14:50  

#9  Spreading the love wherever they go...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-12-22 12:58  

#8  It occurs to me that there is a golden export opportunity here for American farmers. Most hog production these days occurs in massive confinement sheds where golden corn and other ingredients is processed by the piggies and washed down into holding tanks for disposal. This liquid pigshit would be a magic elixir for Malmo cops to load into their "water" cannons for dispersal over and around said "youts". Would end the wasting of so much hot air into the rather chill air.
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700   2008-12-22 12:55  

#7  Live fire exercise, anyone?
Posted by: mojo   2008-12-22 11:58  

#6  A bit of background
Posted by: tipper   2008-12-22 09:36  

#5  Ahmed Baccar, a 20-year-old unemployed Palestinian with a shaved head...Rached El Ali, an 18-year-old Palestinian.

Better there then here.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2008-12-22 08:41  

#4  Volvo sales a bit low as well are they?
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-12-22 08:15  

#3  How's that open immigration policy working out for ya?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2008-12-22 08:07  

#2  If these 'youths' are going to whine and cry anyway, perhaps the police should, as my Daddy used to say, "give them something to cry about."
If the 'youths' are going to throw projectiles at the police, the police should throw projectiles back at them, but faster - much faster.
Posted by: Glenmore   2008-12-22 08:07  

#1  Ahmed Baccar, a 20-year-old unemployed Palestinian with a shaved head...Rached El Ali, an 18-year-old Palestinian.

Who knew the Jews had stolen Malmoe, the historical land of Palestinians too? /sarcasm off
Posted by: P2k on holiday   2008-12-22 07:51  

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