UK Only Article:
standard article
Issue:
The strange rebirth of liberal England
Fly Title:
Sweden’s riots
Rubric:
A Scandinavian idyll is disrupted by arson and unrest
Location:
MALMO AND STOCKHOLM
Main image:
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FOR many, the only place where violence and Swedishness go together is in the pages of a novel by Stieg Larsson or some other Nordic crime writer. This may explain the surprise over riots that spread from Stockholm’s suburbs to half a dozen other cities and towns. The very notion of Swedish youths running amok and turning cars into bonfires, as their fellows in London, Paris and other big European cities have done, seems alien. But for all its shiny veneer, Sweden struggles with similar problems, if to a milder degree: jobless youths, widening income inequality and tensions between native and immigrant populations.
All have been cited as the cause of the unrest that saw 150 vehicles torched and did ...
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