Malmö police station attacked by gunfire
Published: 18 Jun 11 11:11 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/34434/20110618/
The police station in Malmö district Rosengård, in the south of Sweden, was fired upon early Saturday morning.
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No one was physically injured by the shooting.
"There were police officers on the second floor of the building, but the shots were fired towards the first floor, so there were no injuries."
Security at the police station has now been tightened, and a forensic investigation squad is on location to find out what happened.
Thus far the forensic investigation has revealed that live ammunition was used in the shooting, and therefore an attempted murder probe has been initiated, according to the Malmö police force.
At this moment the police have no information about the type of weapon used, or the reason for the shooting.
"We don't know the origins of all this yet," said Hanna Berndtsson.
Rosengård, centrally located in Malmö, is an area commonly associated with social difficulties, and has been the place of several riots and clashes between local youths and authorities in recent years.
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Oh, the politically correct euphemisms! My oh my.
I haven't see anything mentioning a foreign crime on this article .....
Or simply that malmo is griped in a crime wave which law enforcement seem unable to handle.
Södertälje was named "The international capital" of Sweden. The same city that is now plauged with organized crime, drugs, violence and total dissolvement of the civil society.
Oh the irony!!
Are we done yet?
Please...
Criminals are responsible for crime. You don't have to be a foreigner to be a criminal.
Yes you've already shown your absolute ignorance regarding the demographics of crime in Sweden multiple times. This just for reinforcement?
Thanks for the rhetoric. Let the grown ups us who can read statistics do the talking.
Please explain to me how what I wrote was in any way a violation of those terms, because I honestly don't understand where you are getting this from.
I say "you allow criminals to immigrate to your country, and you're surprised when they continue to be violent." How is that considered a "breach" of the user terms?
I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in stockholm
Will the last Swede to leave, please turn out the lights.
Give it a rest .... With the amount of stupid replies not relating to stories I am sure that any removal was justified.
Exactly.
You are going to be hard pressed to find a Chinese engineer, an Indian IT expert or a Chilean dentist who's hobbies include shooting at police and raping Swedish girls.
Skilled immigration would ACTUALLY make sense.
But Sweden seems to be masochistic as far as immigration goes and prefers to allow the most primitive uneducated elements from the worst most violent places in the world instead.
Time to send the third world immigrants back to where they came from. Closing immigration to such people would also be a good move, if you would like to be able to continue to walk the streets peacefully.
If TL was to adopt your rule of being on topic then 99.999999999999% of your posts would be deleted
Every Western country seems to be having issues with this, but Sweden seems to be far ahead of the game. This seems like something that would happen in Sao Paulo or Mexico City, not Sweden which is typically seen as such a peaceful place.
If they don't want discussion and different opinions here why have a comment section at all?
It's starting to sound like the political situation in Sweden. There's supposed to be freedom of speech, but that only applies if you say something that the ruling parties agree with, otherwise you're cast out.
Police, shoot back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everybody duck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You mean Olof Palme isn't still PM?
Im sorry WHAT!? Since when immigrant gangs do anything in brazil?
If there were any immigrant gangs doing anything in brazil they would be purged by other brazilian drug traffikers.
In Brazil, criminal gangs/drug traffikers have been known to shoot at and attack police stations and even burn entire busses with people inside it has nothing to do with immigration though.
It has to do with ignorant people who are brough up in a horrible environment where traffikers roam free and police couldnt get to, but that is changing and has improved alot in the past 5 years.
Have you ever even been to Brazil?
I insist: who are these "local youths"?
If you Google with some of the terms you will get many policy docs about the future EU bureaucrats envisions for Europe unified with "South Mediterranean" aka Middle East.
The main one is titled
Dar al Islam. The Mediterranean, the world system and the "wider EUrope"
"wider EUrope" is a code word for Eurabia.