Rosengård

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Barcelona Christmas gift for Zlatan's first club

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. READ »

Crime figures falling in Rosengård: police

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. READ »

Malmö gets sucked in to world of comics

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. READ »

Ex-moderate Muslim to form 'anti-Zionist' party in Sweden

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. READ »

Left-wing activists held over Stockholm car fires

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. READ »

Stockholmers 'fund the rest of Sweden': report

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. READ »

Woman murdered in Malmö shootings

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. READ »

Swedish Rail Destinations: Malmö

Travel: 2 Oct 09
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. READ »

Swedish integration policies 'a failure'

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. READ »

Cockroach surprise for Swedish property mogul

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. READ »

Study to assess values of Swedish police cadets

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. READ »

Residents thwart Rosengård street festival

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. READ »

Malmö hit by wave of car fires

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. READ »

Migration Board bans 'racist' lawyer

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”. READ »

Police officer gives Rosengård youths the finger

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. READ »

Migration agency used anti-Muslim lawyer

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”. READ »

No charges for cop's racist remarks

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. READ »

'Curfews and police' can curb Rosengård fires

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. READ »

Politicians call for Rosengård curfew

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. READ »

Rosengård firefighters call it quits

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. READ »

Rosengård: Integration in the eye of the storm

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. READ »

New Rosengård fires 'revenge': police

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. READ »

Probe into Malmö police racism reopened

National: 5 Mar 09
Prosecutors in Malmö have decided to reopen an investigation into racist remarks made by police officers in December. READ »

Swedish teen fined for oinking at police

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. READ »

Demo against police racism in Malmö

National: 1 Mar 09
Over one hundred demonstrators marched in Malmö on Saturday in protest against police racism. READ »

Police Academy to investigate racism charges

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. READ »

Couple suspected of khat smuggling arrested in Malmö

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. READ »

Sabuni offers to meet with Rosengård youth

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. READ »

Police crimes unit launches 'Niggersson' investigation

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. READ »

Ten arrested at Malmö pro-Israel demo

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. READ »

Inquiry 'to restore confidence in police'

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. READ »

Racist stereotypes used in police training

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. READ »

Malmö police chief 'knew of racist remarks'

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. READ »

Officers reassigned after racist remarks

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. READ »

Row breaks out over Rosengård report

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. READ »

Rosengård 'growing more radical'

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. READ »

Master keys to Malmö flats missing

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. READ »

What's on in Sweden: January 16 - 22

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. READ »

Alphabet soup: Sweden’s many languages

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. READ »

Police hire protection in Malmö suburb

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. READ »

Rosengård riots abate after two violent nights

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. READ »

Police prepare for renewed rioting

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. READ »

Rioting breaks out in Malmö suburb

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. READ »

Unrest continues near vacated Malmö mosque

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. READ »

Magazine names Sweden's ten worst landlords

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. READ »

Spy tricks in cancer woman eviction case

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. READ »

Politician quits over refugee threats

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. READ »

Sweden held by Portugal in World Cup qualifier

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. READ »

Thousands join march against globalization

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. READ »

What’s on in Sweden: August 29 - September 4

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. READ »

What’s on in Sweden: August 8 - 14

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. READ »

Malmö firefighters demand police escorts

Society: 16 Jun 08
Firefighters in Malmö in southern Sweden are demanding police escorts on calls. READ »

Fire-fighters given police escort to rowdy Malmö suburb

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. READ »

71-year-old woman detained for arson

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. READ »

Murder attempt caught on camera

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. READ »

Armed robbery at Malmö supermarket

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. READ »

Man dies after Malmö shooting

National: 10 Dec 07
A 33-year-old man has been shot dead in the Malmö suburb Rosengård. READ »

Rosengård: hardship and hope

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. READ »

Bus driver sacked after Muslim veil incident

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'. READ »

Veil woman 'stopped by bus driver'

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. READ »

Car explodes on Rosengård

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. READ »

Sahlin: Sweden Democrats 'misogynistic and xenophobic'

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. READ »

Rosengård disturbances continue

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. READ »

Boy in critical condition after brutal attack

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. READ »

Youths clash with police on Malmö estate

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. READ »

Hate mail policeman awarded compensation

National: 7 Mar 07
The decision by a police disciplinary board to fire an officer for sending racist e-mails has been declared unlawful. READ »

Concrete jungle: Sweden's suburbs become cool

Lifestyle: 9 Feb 07
They provide homes to one in four of the Swedish population, but the brutalist architecture of Sweden's 'Miljonprogram' suburbs has long had a bad press. Yet now the impossible seems to be happening: the suburbs are becoming cool. Christine Demsteader reports. READ »

Hate mail policeman wants his job back

National: 17 Jan 07
A Malmö policeman was removed from the force after hateful emails he wrote were made public. Now he wants compensation for wrongful dismissal - and his old job back. READ »

Car explodes in Malmö

National: 16 Dec 06
A car exploded on Friday evening in the Rosengård district of Malmö. No injuries have been reported. READ »

Little girl shows homing instinct

Society: 18 Oct 06
A three-year old girl in Malmö gave staff at her daycare centre the slip and navigated her way home down a busy road. "Mum, I'm home. I'm a big girl," she announced. READ »

Family feud leads to Malmö court violence

Society: 6 Jul 06
Sixteen people have been arrested outside a court in Malmö after a feud between two families broke into violence. Police seized weapons including machetes, knives and iron bars. READ »

Jobs dominate party leader debate

Politics: 20 Feb 06
The leaders of Sweden's main political parties squared up to each other on Sunday night in the first live television debate of the election year. Jobs, or the lack of them, was the central issue. READ »

Editorial: No jobs, no hope

Analysis & Opinion: 11 Nov 05
The French riots are unlikely to be repeated in Sweden, but immigrant unemployment is a major issue here too. And fixing it requires action on joblessness as a whole. READ »

Hate mail policeman freed

Society: 11 Oct 05
The 43 year old police officer who sent an e-mail containing racist statements to the leader of Malmö council was freed on Tuesday. The e-mail was offensive and degrading - but not illegal, said Malmö district court. READ »

Prison threat for hate email policeman

Society: 27 Sep 05
A prosecutor demands prison for a policeman who sent what he thought was a private email to Malmö council leader Ilmar Reepalu (pictured). He referred to "criminals called Mohammed from Rosengård" - and the email was made public. READ »

Refugees reject Swedish towns

Society: 9 Aug 05
Despite the government's attempt to persuade refugees to move out of suburbs and into small towns, more than ever are staying with relatives or friends in areas already suffering from high unemployment and social problems. READ »

Senior Malmö policeman charged over racist e-mails

National: 5 Jul 05
A senior Malmö policeman has been charged with inciting racial hatred after referring to "bloody niggers" and "criminals called Mohammed" in e-mails to two local politicians. They weren't supposed to be made public, he says. READ »

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