Iconic children’s book character Pippi Longstocking will be reimagined as a homeless Roma girl living in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby, Radio Sweden reported this week.
"I'm not afraid, but I am worried," Hassan Abdullahi said while distributing voting papers at a polling station in a disadvantaged Stockholm suburb, as the far-right was set to win record support in Swedish elections Sunday.
Sweden's vulnerable areas tend to make headlines for the wrong reasons, but according to state number-crunchers Statistics Sweden (SCB), the long-term trends in the suburbs have been positive on several fronts.
Ticket controllers and security guards require police support in order to do their jobs at four of Stockholm’s subway stations, newspaper Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) reports.
In 2017 eight new areas were added to a much talked about police list of <a href="https://www.thelocal.se/20170621/police-these-are-swedens-vulnerable-areas-malmo-stockholm-gothenburg-crime-no-go-zones">'especially vulnerable areas'</a> in Sweden, suburbs with socio-economic problems, where crime sometimes means police and emergency services workers have to specially adapt their methods to get the job done.
When Stockholm suburb Rinkeby makes the news it tends to be for its problems, but a new video from two Swedish film-makers highlights a different side to the area.
Teens in Rinkeby told Danish radio they were offered money by a Russian TV crew in exchange for 'action' on camera, the journalist who interviewed them has told The Local.
UPDATED: Police have disputed American journalist Tim Pool's claim that he received an escort out of the Rinkeby suburb of Stockholm on Wednesday after he and his colleague were followed by masked men.
Rinkeby in Stockholm made global headlines in February after riots broke out involving car fires just days after Donald Trump thrust the spotlight on Sweden. But what do the people who actually live and work in the suburb think about it? The Local spoke to them to find out.
UPDATED: An Australian TV station has denied partnering with a Swedish anti-immigration website, while police have told The Local a probe into an alleged attack on the crew has been dropped.
UPDATED: A police negotiation with a man armed with a knife ended hours after he locked himself and another person in an apartment in the north of the city.
Stockholm police were on Thursday investigating the murder of a 19-year-old who died in hospital after he was found with gunshot wounds in a suburb of the Swedish capital.
After police officers tried to search a car in Stockholm's Rinkeby, youths began throwing stones and torching cars in a spree that stretched into the early hours of Monday morning.
The government has ordered Sweden's Equality Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen, DO), the country's primary arbiter of discrimination claims, to relocate its offices to a north Stockholm suburb with a high concentration of immigrants.
After five nights of rioting throughout the outskirts of Stockholm, many in Sweden and elsewhere are trying to make sense of it all. The Local spoke to a mix of commentators and local politicians to get their views.
