At least 10 people were arrested, and several police officers injured, in violence which broke out in southern Sweden after an anti-Muslim Danish politician was blocked from attending a Koran-burning rally, police said on Saturday.
A 64-year-old man who was found by police wounded in a car in Rosengård on Saturday is suspected of having attempted to threaten another man – but ended up accidentally shooting himself.
Police in the Swedish city of Malmö have arrested five men on suspiction of carrying out an armed robbery at an apartment in the district of Rosengård.
When Malmö mayor Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh and a group of local politicians stepped off a specially chartered train in the troubled district of Rosengård in December, she made big claims for the new ring line she was launching.
A young man has been seized on suspicion of carrying out a gun murder in July in the Malmö district of Rosengård, in a further sign that police are closing in on the gangs behind recent shootings.
When Malmö's Örtagårdsskolan was built in 1970, the idea was that it would draw pupils both from the newly built Rosengård district to the north, and from the middle-class area of detached houses to the south.
A man was knifed to death at a mall in the centre of Malmö's Rosengård district on Tuesday morning, with a suspect seized shortly afterwards in a nearby apartment.
Officers armed with Heckler & Koch MP5 machine guns have been stationed outside two police stations in Malmö in a move intended to ward off “vengeance attacks” from criminals.
The detonation of an explosive object outside a police station in Rosengård was a response from criminals to the pressure being put on them, Malmö's police chief said.
Politicians and Malmö residents gathered in front of city hall on Monday to protest against a wave of violence after a 16-year-old boy was killed in the Rosengård district last week.
An 18-year-old woman has been taken to hospital after she was found with gunshot wounds in the Rosengård district of Malmö in the early hours of Tuesday.
A 24-year-old man shot in Malmö’s Rosengård district this summer may have survived because one the bullets fired at him was deflected by a five kronor coin he had in his bag, a police investigation has found.
A 22-year-old man has been arrested in Malmö on suspicion of attempted murder after he allegedly shot another man at the Rosengård Centrum shopping mall in the south of the city last week.
Chaotic scenes, including a firecracker being thrown, forced Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic to cut short a visit to his old neighbourhood Rosengård in Malmö, according to a Swedish newspaper.
UPDATED: A Malmö school that closed amid concerns of violence and criminality is set to reopen to pupils on Tuesday morning, after crisis talks were held between staff and directors on Monday.
A secondary school in Malmö has been closed after the teachers' union declared that it is too dangerous a place for students and teachers to attend due to widespread violence and criminality.
