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May 26, 2012
Bomb rocks iconic Malmö restaurant
Published: 22 Mar 10 06:59 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Updated: 22 Mar 10 13:16 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/25662/20100322/
A powerful bomb explosion ripped through the grand old restaurant Hipp on Kalendegatan in central Malmö shortly before 2am on Monday.
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A fire broke out in the restaurant but was extinguished fairly swiftly. No one was reported hurt but furniture and the inside of the restaurant sustained considerable damage.
The area around the landmark Malmö nightspot remained sealed off a couple of hours after the explosion as police technicians searched for an explanation.
"There has been speculation that a bomb was placed on the handle of the restaurant door, but judging by the damage it could have been left anywhere outside the restaurant," Göran Billberg at Malmö police told news agency TT.
Police have concluded from the crime scene that the bomb attack was directed at Hipp but remain in the dark as to why.
"There are no known threats against the restaurant which can explain the incident," Marie Keismar at Malmö police to news agency TT.
The police have been in contact with a large number of witnesses who had heard the explosion but it is as yet unclear if anyone actually saw it.
The Hippodrome building, which today houses a restaurant, theatre and nightclub, was built in 1900. From the 1950s to the 1990s the Hippodrome housed a free church.
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I know this is an idea completely new and very strange to you, but might be worth considering. After all the police most likely know most of the people involved on first name basis by now.
ARREST THE PEOPLE CARRYING OUT THE BOMBINGS, YOU BUNCH OF LAZY, COWARDLY, USELESS, F--KWITS.
1) Another competitive Bar,Nightclub Hotel owner does not like others to run business in that area so they scaring people and damaging their property . it is very common in the small business to plot for one another.
2) European thief would like to keep busy the police and go and rub the Bank and escape with their cycles :)
So take it easy these things happens but i m glad nobody was hurt or killed.
You are right. They must devote all there time to the kid who copies one mp3 or patrol the pizza parlours for special offers.
What is needed in malmö is the Dublin Garda riot squad, to deal with this. Just tell them they get 10000 euros for each major criminal who's arrest still stands after two years, with 10000 of for every conviction that is squashed. They would probably turn Malmö and everywhere else upside down, but deal with the criminals.
Why are Swedes not telling there government to get of there ass's and do something about this?
What would a riot squad know about investigating a bombing? It's not like the bombers stick around afterwards to get arrested.
What's needed is solid detective work, not some culchie swinging a club.
The police in Malmö know who the bombers are. They are afraid of them.
Thats what the problem is.
That problem needs to be dealt with.
A culchie with a club would soon sort that out.
It is racist suspicion Mr. Holmes: no smoke without fire, no bomb without a Muslim being there or somewhere in the neighbourhood, right there in Mayor Repaalu's Malmö county and that's the only reason why innocent people are fleeing from there?
A bomb explodes anywhere and Muslims are accused. Not gangsters, but Muslims?
As Mari Skurdal writes in Ordfront Nr.1 /2010 "Rasistiskt nyspråk I Norge" (Racist newspeak in Norway / New racist language in Norway) where the "Fremskrittspartiet " / "Progress Party" (a more successful version of the Sweden Democrats) is the second biggest party in that country, got 614,717 votes in the election last Autumn. Not that I'm accusing Sweden Democrats of racism, but we all should be careful about how we use the term Muslim, to accuse and complain or to jest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Party_%28Norway%29
Wrong.
Perhaps they would be more responsive if they started having to pay the damage caused by the crimes which they refuse to act on. They they might be more motivated to move their fannies.
It might well be, but let's face it, the lad who got shot in the face last august, the lad who got popped in the middle of Stortorget at the end of January and all the shootings in between, the majority of muggings, assaults, bank robberies etc that happen in Malmö don't tend to involve ethnic Swedes. Well, not as the perpetrators, at least. Even if Metro DOES try to suggest this is the case, e.g. by calling the 15 year old who was robbing banks last year "Gustav". Amusingly enough, he ("Gustav") is the son of someone who is currently looking at some serious time for possible involvement in killing a couple of people in Dalby who ended up in a burning car outside Gothenburg, and is suspected for helping out there, too.
What does this prove? I honestly don't know.
As you know, Tribalism, Racis m, Xenophobia, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism and Apartheid are all different names of the same disease.
What you said is so true, so sad and so scary. Seriously what is going on here?
Funny thing here, people in this forum argue that some crimes are policed, but others are not so much. Look at it form an economic perspective: Downloading is costing the industries of the country money, someone who is raped, costs the country no money, unless that is of course they have to incarcerate the perpetrator, but there are ways around that.
The morals of the people in charge are getting smudged by economic factors. These economic factors are becoming more and more overriding. I hope these people feel ashamed and loose sleep for this.
it seems every month there is something MAJOR going on.
murder
nightclub fires
murder
stabbing
nightclub bombings
etc
There is nothing to stop you from brining action against the police for neglect of duty.
If Malmö has really gotten that bad (and I wouldn't know, because I've never been there...), then maybe you need Rudy Giuliani to come over and be mayor.
Mr. "Zero Tolerance" will have it cleaned up in no time!