February 12, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Rosengård":
Society: 9 Feb 12
A man in southern Sweden has been charged with assault after threatening to ‘bring in his gang’ to a local hairdressing salon after being refused a haircut.
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National: 31 Jan 12
Malmö was rocked by another fatal shooting on Tuesday night after a man was gunned down in a car and later died in hospital, marking the city's third gun fatality since the start of the year.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jan 12
The grieving father of a murdered 15-year-old, attempting to climb down into his dead son's grave, was a sombre reminder of the consequences of the escalating violence in southern Sweden, reports contributor Patrick Reilly.
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National: 11 Jan 12
Hundreds of Malmö residents turned out on Wednesday to follow the casket of 15-year-old Ardiwan Samir, who died after being shot on New Year's Eve, in a march arranged by the boy's family as a protest against violence.
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National: 1 Jan 12
The 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head and chest in the Malmö suburb of Rosengård, in the south of Sweden, late on Saturday night, has died in hospital from his injuries.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Nov 11
Sweden can't afford to keep discriminating against those living in the suburbs and thereby missing out on the payback of years of investment in education and skills, journalist Carlos Rojas argues.
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Sport: 3 Nov 11
Sweden’s arguably biggest football star of all times, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, is releasing a biography of his journey from a troubled Swedish suburb to the very top of world football.
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National: 5 Sep 11
Police who patrol Malmö's Rosengård district are being offered a special Arabic language class to help them better understand and communicate with local residents in the predominantly immigrant area.
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Society: 2 Sep 11
A police officer in Malmö in southern Sweden is under investigation after having called homosexuals a “cancer on society” in reference to a lesbian colleague who also serves as the department's hate crimes educator.
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Society: 11 Aug 11
A man has been reported to the authorities by his neighbours in Malmö after they tired of his noisy masturbation habits, which they report can disturb the peace at any time of the day or night.
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National: 10 Aug 11
Sweden is one of the ten countries worldwide where social hostilities related to religion are increasing the most, according to a newly published American study.
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National: 8 Aug 11
Five men barged into a flat in the Rosengård suburb of Malmö, in the south of Sweden, early on Monday morning kidnapping one man after incapacitating two others. The man was later found in a car outside Jönköping.
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National: 18 Jun 11
The police station in Malmö district Rosengård, in the south of Sweden, was fired upon early Saturday morning. No one was physically injured.
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Education: 8 Mar 11
Schools in Rosengård in Malmö in southern Sweden have come in for stinging criticism from the Swedish Schools Inspectorate, with more staff training and contact with home required.
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Sport: 29 Dec 10
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, AC Milan star and captain of the national team, is by far the most popular sportsman in Sweden, a new survey published on Wednesday showed.
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National: 22 Nov 10
A powerful explosion ripped through a convenience store in the Rosengård area of Malmö on Monday morning.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 Nov 10
The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson exposes the orthodoxy and self-serving folksy truisms of far-right PC in a lexicon of populist platitudes.
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Lifestyle: 5 Nov 10
With Malmö’s football club poised to win Sweden’s top-flight Allsvenskan football league, The Local’s Peter Vinthagen Simpson looks at how the team's multicultural make up has united a city that is so often cited as a negative example of the challenge of integration.
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National: 1 Nov 10
Police in Malmö spent the weekend investigating a shooting that occurred in the city on Friday night, but was not reported until Saturday evening.
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Analysis & Opinion: 29 Oct 10
As police in Malmö continue their hunt for a gunman suspected in nearly 20 shootings targeting people with immigrant backgrounds, the AFP's Nina Larsson finds the city's residents remain on edge.
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National: 25 Oct 10
Ex-members of criminal gangs in Malmö in southern Sweden have taken up the hunt for an unknown gunman thought to be responsible for nearly 20 shootings targeting people with immigrant backgrounds.
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Analysis & Opinion: 22 Oct 10
As Malmö police warn the immigrant residents to exercise caution after a spate of apparently random shootings, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson talks to local leaders about fear, caution and how residents are reacting to the situation.
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National: 21 Oct 10
Police in Malmö issued a warning on Thursday urging residents with immigrant backgrounds to exercise caution as officers continued to investigate a number of related shootings targeting immigrants.
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National: 20 Oct 10
Police in Malmö now believe that a more than a dozen unexplained shootings which have taken place in the city this year may be connected. All the victims are believed to have immigrant backgrounds.
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National: 11 Oct 10
A man and woman have been arrested for making threats in connection with a pimping trial underway in Malmö involving a 14-year-old girl.
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National: 28 Sep 10
The presiding judge in the Malmö district court trial of ten men suspected of having sold a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex, has been forced to withdraw due to threats against her and her family.
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National: 27 Sep 10
The trial of ten men 10 men suspected of having sold a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex opened in Malmö district court on Monday.
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National: 15 Sep 10
Charges were filed on Wednesday in Malmö against 10 men suspected of having sold a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex.
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Analysis & Opinion: 9 Sep 10
With a xenophobic political party knocking on the door of the Riksdag, Swedish journalist Lars Åberg examines why, despite good intentions, many Swedes still view immigrants like household pets.
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National: 8 Jun 10
Swedish artist Lars Vilks has joined a Facebook group entitled "Kill Lars Vilks" in order to engage in discussion with his antagonists as part of his ongoing art project to explore the bounds of free speech.
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Travel: 2 May 10
Sponsored Article: Once in the shadow of its larger, more glamorous neighbour Copenhagen, the construction of the Öresund Bridge means Malmö today forms the proud gateway to Sweden.
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National: 29 Apr 10
Unrest erupted in the Malmö district of Rosengård on Wednesday evening with police forced to seal off the area before regaining control of the situation.
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Society: 26 Apr 10
A pre-school in Malmö's Rosengård district was shut down on Monday morning in the interests of staff safety following an extended period of threats and harassment from a gang of local youths.
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National: 18 Apr 10
A 24-year-old man with ties to Malmö's criminal underworld was shot and injured in the southern part of the city on Saturday evening as police fear a fresh escalation of violence.
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National: 25 Mar 10
Two police officers have each been docked five days' wages for racist slurs made during disturbances in Malmö's Rosengård district in December 2008.
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Sport: 22 Dec 09
Zlatan Ibrahimovic's first club FBK Balkan have got an early Christmas present of 1.5 million kronor ($206,000) courtesy of FC Barcelona.
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Society: 18 Dec 09
An increased police presence has led to a distinct reduction in crime figures for flashpoint Malmö suburb Rosengård, according to local media reports.
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Lifestyle: 6 Nov 09
The Local's Charlotte Webb sits down with World of Comics festival co-ordinator, Caroline Lund, to talk masks and multiculturalism in Malmö.
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Politics: 3 Nov 09
A once moderate Muslim spokesperson who last year came out as an Islamist radical has announced plans to start a political party uniting all of Sweden’s anti-Zionists.
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National: 29 Oct 09
Stockholm-area police arrested nine left-wing activists on Wednesday in connection with a string of disturbances in the southern suburb of Fittja.
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Politics: 21 Oct 09
Stockholm-area taxpayers help fund the rest of Sweden to the tune of 14 billion kronor ($2 billion) a year to put the country’s municipalities on an equal financial footing.
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National: 10 Oct 09
A man and a woman in their twenties were found with gun-shot wounds to the head in Malmö in the early hours of Saturday morning. The female victim later died from injuries sustained.
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Politics: 23 Sep 09
Immigrants to Sweden continue to flock to a few, high-immigrant concentration areas, new statistics show, prompting one politician to conclude the country's integration politics have failed.
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Society: 16 Sep 09
A Stockholm-area investment executive received a package of live cockroaches in protest of his firm’s perceived negligence in upgrading run-down apartment buildings in Malmö’s Rosengård neighbourhood.
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National: 14 Sep 09
The attitudes and values of Swedish police cadets are to be assessed before and after they complete their training, following a number of noteworthy racist comments by police officers in recent months.
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Society: 23 Aug 09
A street festival held in the Rosengård district of Malmö deteriorated into a fight on Saturday evening as activists were forced out by area residents.
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National: 10 Aug 09
More than ten cars were set alight in a series of arson attacks across Malmö on Sunday night. Police were unable to confirm on Monday whether the attacks were linked.
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National: 15 Jul 09
An asylum lawyer from Skåne in southern Sweden has been blacklisted by the country’s migration authorities following revelations about his personal blog on which he referred to Islam as a “psychosocial disease”.
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National: 5 Jul 09
A police officer has been re-assigned and reported for making insulting gestures with his middle finger at youths in the suburb of Rosengård in Malmö.
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National: 24 Jun 09
A lawyer contracted by the Swedish Migration Board to represent asylum seekers has a personal blog in which he refers to Islam as a “psychosocial disease”.
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National: 19 Jun 09
Prosecutors have abandoned their investigation into the case of a Malmö police officer who uttered racist slurs during disturbances in Malmö's Rosengård district in December.
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National: 7 May 09
A prominent Liberal Party Riksdag member on Wednesday called for targeted curfews and more police in Malmö’s Rosengård neighbourhood just hours before a communal refuse facility in the area burned to the ground.
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National: 1 May 09
Politicians from the Moderate and Sweden Democrat parties in Malmö are calling for a nighttime curfew for youth in the Rosengård neighbourhood. They claim the situation in the area has become untenable.
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National: 28 Apr 09
Months of facing thrown rocks and threats during calls to the Rosengård neighbourhood in Malmö have caused local fire chief Henrik Persson and others to step down.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 Mar 09
Malmö suburb Rosengård has come to symbolise Sweden's struggles with integration. AFP's Marc Preel examines a community grappling with its identity after a winter marred by rioting and clashes with the police.
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National: 20 Mar 09
Police in Malmö claim a recent wave of deliberately set fires in the city’s heavily-immigrant Rosengård neighbourhood constitutes an act of retaliation for recent arrests.
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National: 5 Mar 09
Prosecutors in Malmö have decided to reopen an investigation into racist remarks made by police officers in December.
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National: 4 Mar 09
A Swedish teenager who made oinking noises as he walked past two police officers has been convicted for the insult and ordered pay a fine.
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National: 1 Mar 09
Over one hundred demonstrators marched in Malmö on Saturday in protest against police racism.
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National: 21 Feb 09
The Swedish National Police Academy (Polishögskolan) is to be investigated after details emerged of a culture of racism at the school.
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National: 19 Feb 09
Police in Malmö have arrested a man and a woman on narcotics charges after finding the pair had two suitcases filled with amphetamine-like substance khat.
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Politics: 13 Feb 09
Sweden’s integration minister Nyamko Sabuni wants to visit the homes of young people from the predominantly immigrant suburb of Rosengård in Malmö.
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National: 10 Feb 09
The Swedish National Police-related Crimes Unit has launched a criminal investigation against the Malmö police officers that used the fictional names "Neger Niggersson" and "Oskar Neger" (Negro) for internal training purposes.
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National: 8 Feb 09
Ten people were arrested in connection with a pro-Israel demonstration in Malmö on Sunday. The city's main square was closed as the demo met with anti-Israel protesters.
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National: 8 Feb 09
Sweden's national police commissioner, Bengt Svensson, has launched an independent inquiry into racism within the police force in Skåne following a series of revelations over the weekend.
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National: 7 Feb 09
"Neger Niggersson" and "Oskar Neger" (Negro) are two names used by Skåne police in their internal training, it has emerged. Meanwhile the chief prosecutor has ruled that police officers caught using racist language on film have no case to answer.
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National: 6 Feb 09
Malmö police chief Ulf Sempert has reported himself following admissions that he has previous knowledge about racist comments made on board a police bus but chose not to react.
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National: 5 Feb 09
Three Malmö police officers have been reassigned for yelling racial slurs in reference to a suspect detained during disturbances which hit the city’s Rosengård district in December.
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National: 30 Jan 09
Three academics who demanded to see the source material behind a controversial new report on religious and political extremism in the Malmö suburb of Rosengård have been told that the material no longer exists.
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Society: 28 Jan 09
A majority of Rosengård's inhabitants believe the troubled Malmö suburb has undergone a serious political and religious radicalization over the past five years, a new study shows.
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National: 24 Jan 09
The master keys to almost 900 apartments in the suburb of Rosengård in Malmö are missing. The keys were stolen during riots in the city in December but the managing agent, Newsec, has not yet changed the locks.
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Lifestyle: 15 Jan 09
What's on in Sweden: New York theatre company and world class jazz in Stockholm; Emergenza festival in Gothenburg; Josh Rouse in Malmö.
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Analysis & Opinion: 8 Jan 09
Learning Swedish is a noble pursuit. When in Rome and all that. But mastering the majority mother tongue is only the beginning, as many more languages loom large on the horizon, writes Alec Forss.
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National: 31 Dec 08
The police have contracted a security firm to help with the surveillance and protection of the police station in the Malmö suburb of Rosengård. Rioting youths and vandals have recently targeted the station.
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National: 20 Dec 08
The streets of Malmö’s Rosengård district were relatively calm on Friday evening, as the hundreds of youth who rioted earlier in the week refrained from engaging in renewed clashes with police.
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National: 19 Dec 08
Riot police from Stockholm and Gothenburg are being sent to provide back-up for their colleagues in Malmö as tensions in the southern city continue to flare.
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National: 19 Dec 08
Scores of young people rioted on Thursday night in Rosengård, the Malmö suburb in which tensions have been running high since the recent closure of an Islamic cultural centre.
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National: 18 Dec 08
Fresh disturbances erupted on Wednesday evening near the basement location which had previously served as a mosque in Malmö's Rosengård district.
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Society: 9 Dec 08
Six out of Sweden’s ten worst landlords, as listed in Hem & Hyra magazine’s annual ranking, come from the same highly criticized company.
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Society: 3 Dec 08
Malmö's council-owned housing company MKB has admitted to using "classic" TV tricks in its bid to evict a 69-year-old woman with multiple illnesses.
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Politics: 2 Dec 08
A politician in southern Sweden is leaving his post on a local council after receiving numerous threats for suggesting that the municipality accept three unaccompanied child refugees.
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Sport: 12 Oct 08
Sweden were held to a goalless draw by Portugal in their group 1 World Cup 2010 qualifier in Stockholm on Saturday.
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National: 21 Sep 08
Over 10,000 people joined a march against globalization and environmental destruction at the European Social Forum in Malmö on Saturday. The march passed off without incident.
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Lifestyle: 28 Aug 08
What’s on: World class choir and Snoop Dogg in Stockholm; Aero Show in Gothenburg, pop festival and fashion bazaar in Malmö.
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Lifestyle: 7 Aug 08
What’s on: Culture and city pride in Stockholm, Culture and jazz in Gothenburg, Deep Purple near Malmö and Reggae nights in Uppsala.
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Society: 16 Jun 08
Firefighters in Malmö in southern Sweden are demanding police escorts on calls.
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National: 14 Jun 08
Malmö fire-fighters are to be given police escorts on call-outs to the suburb of Rosengård in the face of stone-throwing and death threats.
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National: 20 Apr 08
A 71-year-old woman was remanded into custody on Saturday on suspicion of arson. Police suspect that she could be behind a series of fires in the Rosengård area of Malmö.
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National: 10 Jan 08
A man indicted on a charge of attempted murder in Malmö was captured on camera as he fired three shots at a 31-year-old man in the Rosengård suburb.
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National: 23 Dec 07
A supermarket in Malmö was robbed by armed men on Sunday morning. No one is reported to have been hurt in the raid.
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National: 10 Dec 07
A 33-year-old man has been shot dead in the Malmö suburb Rosengård.
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Lifestyle: 23 Aug 07
For many, the Rosengård area of Malmö has become a symbol of segregation, deprivation and unrest. Four months after disturbances there gained international attention, Genevieve Worrell finds real problems remain, but also a will to turn the situation around.
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Society: 2 May 07
A bus driver in Malmö has been told by his employer that he is no longer welcome after he tried to prevent a young woman in a niqab from boarding his bus. "It feels good," says 'Leonora'.
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Society: 25 Apr 07
A bus driver in Malmö has been suspended after allegedly trying to stop a woman from boarding because she was wearing Islamic headgear. "Wearing a burqa doesn't make me a threat," 'Leonora' says.
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National: 23 Apr 07
A car belonging to a cleaning company exploded on the Rosengård housing estate in Malmö on Sunday evening. The firm's owner has previously been the subject of threats, police say.
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Politics: 20 Apr 07
On Thursday evening, Mona Sahlin became the latest representative of a parliamentary party to join in a televised debate with the leader of the Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Åkesson.
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National: 17 Apr 07
The rear window of a police car was smashed on Monday evening, signalling the beginning of another troubled night in the suburb of Malmö.
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National: 16 Apr 07
A 17-year-old boy in Malmö was attacked and beaten unconscious by a group of six or seven young men on a football pitch in Malmö's Rosengård district on Sunday evening.
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National: 15 Apr 07
Young people armed with stones and eggs attacked police officers in the Rosengård estate in Malmö. Fire officers trying to reach the area needed a police escort to get through the mob.
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National: 7 Mar 07
The decision by a police disciplinary board to fire an officer for sending racist e-mails has been declared unlawful.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"Remember how your kids used to dance around the room to The Gummy Bears and Astid Lindgren? And now, since they started gymnasium, they listen to guitar or electronic music, or reggae, or hip hop, or Sean Banan?? That's not proper music! They are clearly junkies!" READ »
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