May 28, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Hooligans":
National: 31 Oct 11
Four guys out shoe shopping on a Sunday afternoon suddenly found themselves detained and whisked to the edge of town by police, mistaking them for a gang of criminal football hooligans.
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Sport: 31 Jul 11
A hotly contested Allsvenskan football match between Malmö FF and Stockholm's Djurgården was terminated after only 12 minutes of play Saturday afternoon after several fireworks were thrown onto the pitch.
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Politics: 28 Jun 11
The Sweden Democrats demanded increased border controls when the Riksdag debated free movement within the European Union on Tuesday.
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Science & Technology: 24 Jun 11
Sweden’s police will now be able to identify criminals from pictures and videos with the aid of new technology that can compare a suspect in an image with police record photos.
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Politics: 22 Jun 11
On Wednesday the Riksdag voted in favour of the Social Democrats’ proposal that known hooligans should report to authorities prior to major sporting events.
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Sport: 12 Jun 11
At least five people were injured in the early hours of Sunday morning when fans of Stockholm’s Hammarby football club clashed with guests in a restaurant, a brawl that later took to the streets.
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Sport: 31 May 11
Stockholm club Djurgården Football has received the approval needed from the Data Inspection Board (Datainspektionen) to start up a register of blacklisted supporters to keep them out of sports events.
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Politics: 27 May 11
The Social Democrats want Sweden to implement new laws requiring known hooligans to report to the police during sports events before the start of the next football season.
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Sport: 26 May 11
The parents of the football fan who ran onto the pitch and punched a goalkeeper during a match in Malmö on Tuesday have made a public appeal against vigilante justice in the wake of threats made against their son.
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Analysis & Opinion: 6 May 11
While football hooliganism has all but disappeared in the UK, Sweden continues to struggle with how to deal with the problem, turning it into a political hot potato, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers.
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Politics: 4 May 11
Swedish EU commissioner Cecilia Malmström has opened up to calls for simplifying the establishment of border controls between EU countries following the recent French-Italian conflict over Tunisian refugees.
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Sport: 3 Apr 11
As Sweden's Allsvenskan football season kicks off this weekend, the police have produced new training material to help officers keep more hooligans away from sports arenas.
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Sport: 3 Oct 10
Players, coaches and referees plying their trade in the Swedish Allsvenskan top flight are increasingly becoming the target of threats from supporters, often from their own clubs.
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Lifestyle: 23 Sep 10
What’s on in Sweden: Ardal and Arj stand up in Stockholm, Bookworms get reading in Gothenburg and The Mystery Jets jet to Malmö.
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Society: 6 Aug 10
A book by the late best-selling Swedish novelist Stieg Larsson is set to be published in English for the first time.
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Society: 20 Jun 10
Police, politicians and church leaders all remained caught up in the moment on Sunday after an emotional royal wedding day went off without a hitch.
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Sport: 11 Mar 10
Police have identified nine of the sixteen Hammarby supporters who crashed an AIK training session on Wednesday and threatened Uruguayan international midflieder Sebastián Eguren.
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National: 11 May 09
Five Swedish football hooligans were forced to leave a plane at Malmö Airport on Sunday with a further seven suspected of air traffic sabotage after threatening crew and beating up a fellow passenger.
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National: 7 Mar 09
Police estimate that up to 6,000 demonstrators have joined a march in Malmö to protest against the ongoing Davis Cup match between Sweden and Israel in the city.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Mar 09
The City of Malmö's decision to hold the Sweden-Israel Davis Cup tennis match behind closed doors is ill-conceived, short-sighted and potentially dangerous, argues freelance Israeli journalist David Stavrou.
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Sport: 20 Oct 08
More than 70 people were detained in connection with a brawl which broke out on Sunday afternoon between rival factions of football supporters in Stockholm.
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Sport: 27 Jun 08
The Swedish Football Association has proposed creating a registry of everyone who purchases football tickets in order to help prevent known hooligans from entering Sweden’s arenas.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Apr 08
His first visit to a Swedish football match left David Bartram wondering what Sweden needs to do to stamp out its problems with hooliganism.
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National: 2 Mar 08
Police detained four people after fighting broke out among rival football fans on Saturday afternoon.
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Sport: 22 Feb 08
Police made two arrests after fighting broke out among rival fans on Thursday evening.
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Sport: 24 Jan 08
27 Swedish football hooligans have been convicted for rioting at a football match in Stockholm in 2004.
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National: 22 Oct 07
Seven people have been held in custody following a fight between rival groups of football hooligans in southern Sweden on Sunday. Police made a total of 100 arrests.
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Sport: 8 Sep 07
Sweden plans to crack down on hooliganism in football and other sports, the country's justice and sports ministers have written.
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Sport: 7 May 07
The Swedish ice hockey team remains unbeaten on its quest to retain the world championship. Two wins on the bounce put Gefle at the top of Allsvenskan. Low-ranked Swedish golfer Joakim Bäckström breaks the course record in Milan.
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National: 1 Apr 07
Four people were left needing treatment after rival sets of football supporters met for a planned confrontation in Stockholm on Saturday evening.
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Sport: 21 Aug 06
A group of Swedish football fans have expressed their anger at the continued employment of national team coach Lars Lagerbäck by nailing a sheet with the words 'Lagerbäck resign!' to his house.
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Sport: 18 Jun 06
There is a major risk of violence during Tuesday's World Cup match between Sweden and England, Swedish police have said. It's considered one of the tournament's riskiest games, say police.
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Lifestyle: 12 May 06
Immigration and anti-capitalist riots are the big issues in an English musical opening in Stockholm this weekend. "I want conservative people to fall in love with my immigrants," says the British politician who wrote the play.
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National: 1 Jul 05
1 July means a host of new laws come into force in Sweden. After all the talk, it now really is illegal for private individuals to download music from the internet and for your local salon to charge Mrs Svensson more than Mr Svensson for a haircut.
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Sport: 27 Mar 05
A hundred football hooligans riot in a Stockholm pub, injuring two police officers. Police arrest twenty-seven people during the fight, between Hammarby and Djurgården supporters.
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National: 13 Oct 04
Stones thrown at trains, bicycles dumped on the tracks and conductors strangled and spat at - and nobody's interested. Cancel a few rush hour trains and suddenly it's the week's biggest story.
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Lifestyle: 22 Sep 04
Life imitating art: Malmö police are forced to stop the premier of The Football Factory as rival supporters of two local clubs clash in the cinema.
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Smörgåsbord: 28 Aug 04
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Society: 6 Aug 04
Proud Pride organisers criticise Stockholm Council, while the Swedish Church gets the party going.
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Sport: 24 Jun 04
Where there's football there's fighting. While Sweden's boys in Portugal do the country proud, hooligans brawl in the posh part of Stockholm and two boys' teams act like they're in the Gaza Strip rather than the Under 16s St Eriks Cup.
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Politics: 7 May 04
Police floored rioters, but will proposals for an all-female political party hit the established parties where it hurts?
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