Busy Christmas weekend for the Swedish police
Published: 25 Dec 11 13:59 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/38148/20111225/
Murders, break-ins and accidents made it a busy Christmas holiday weekend for the police and emergency services across Sweden this year.
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28 break-ins were reported in the county of Skåne, in the south of Sweden, alone, while there was also a spate of burglaries in Kalmar, Oskarshamn and Partille.
The worst hit area was the western part of the county, with six burglaries in Helsingborg, five in Malmö and four in Ängelholm.
"Most of the burglaries were discovered in the evening when people came home after Christmas celebrations with relatives and friends," said Skåne police on their website.
Meanwhile further north in Växjö, Kronoberg County, thieves broke into a safety deposit at the county council building and found keys to several vehicles, including minivans and cars, which they proceeded to steal.
The building itself was vandalised and several computers were also reportedly stolen during the robbery.
There were also a pair of murder cases for police to deal with. In the capital, a 23-year-old man died from stab wounds, following an attack in the stairwell of a block of apartments in Fittja just outside Stockholm.
Three people, two women and one man, have been arrested by local police as their enquiries continue, while a similar investigation was launched in Kristinehamn when a man in his 30s was found dead outdoors in the early hours of Christmas Day.
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A friend made me aware of a report of a place called Hout Bay in Cape Town, South Africa, have a look at what they had to deal with in a short time... WOW, they seem to have serious problems down there. Hout Bay looks tiny on Google earth.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/7/20111224165842.png/
(you need to zoom in to be able to read it)
Merry X-Mas all, and a happy new year.
Wonder why Malmo is so bad??
Sweden may have it's issues, as does every country, but life here is leaps and bounds above other places.
Malmo is not the city it was - let's hope common sense prevails and tougher action to taken to stop the racial hatred and violence that's sadly reported in evergrowing episodes.