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Gothenburg, Sweden 'carbeque' - parents called, no arrests made
2018-08-14
[Breitbart UK] A gang of masked "youths" rampaged through Sweden’s second-largest city Monday night, setting cars ablaze in an attack described as "extremely organised" and like a military operation by the Prime Minister.

Shocking video of fire engulfing numerous vehicles in Gothenburg spread on social media Monday evening with other footage clearly showing masked people in dark clothing intentionally lighting the blazes.

Police chose not to arrest the "young people" at the scene and have since contacted their parents, reports state.

Officers said Tuesday that up to 100 cars had been either burnt to or vandalized in the city and in nearby towns such as Trollhattan, an industrial area with high unemployment, and Falkenberg.

Falkenberg contains gender-segregated asylum seeker homes and police have been repeatedly attacked en mass in nearby Trollhattan, with well knows Islamic State fighters hailing from the area.

Such areas, with large migrant populations, have become hotspots for violence in the Nordic nation in recent years with many described as "no-go zones."



Posted by:Besoeker

#13  According to the Daily Mail, it went much farther than just Gothenburg:

Dozens of vehicles burned in Sweden's four major cities - Stockholm, Malmo, Gothenburg and Uppsala - on Monday evening and in the early hours of Tuesday.

Systematically setting cars on fire has become a associated with gang violence in suburbs in Sweden's major cities.


I think there is now enough evidence, veiled though it might be, to move this to P.1: WoT and tag it Moslem colonists.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-08-14 19:37  

#12  #9 The national beverage is estrogen.

Snark of the Day!
Posted by: SteveS   2018-08-14 19:34  

#11  Sweden has on many occasions criticized or condemned Israel for injuring terrorist Paleos so maybe the cops suspected (or were certain0 that the politicos would stab them in the back if any of the local thugs stubbed their toe or broke a nail under custody
Posted by: lord garth   2018-08-14 19:29  

#10  Whiff of grapeshot and make the migrant parents pay for damages
Posted by: Frank G   2018-08-14 18:54  

#9  The national beverage is estrogen. Nothing will be done about this behavior...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-08-14 18:18  

#8  Time for a militia to stand up and put an end to this nonsense.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-08-14 18:01  

#7  I don't suppose it was a marketing tactic by Saab?
Posted by: Glenmore   2018-08-14 14:15  

#6  Shoot to kill.
Posted by: Clem Kadiddlehopper9000   2018-08-14 12:59  

#5  The Local (Sweden) adds:

One witness, who asked to be named only as Robert, told The Local he had seen a group of half a dozen people torch cars in the car park outside his home in Frölunda. His wife called the emergency services.

"We were very surprised. This area is usually very calm. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Six months ago it happened on the other side of the square. We've been living here for eight years," he said.

"We know from experience that these kinds of fires more often happen the week before schools start than other weeks," police spokesperson Ulla Brehm told the Swedish news agency TT.


I suspect this is the action of “migrant” yoots rather than natives, hinted at by Skidmark’s BBC article comparing this round of car-b-ques with the Moslem colonist riots of 2013:

There is no clear motive for the widespread destruction, but the arson echoes the damage done during riots in Stockholm over several nights in May 2013.

They followed the death of an elderly man who threatened police - vehicles were set alight in poor immigrant neighbourhoods, also by masked youths.

The 2013 riots sparked a debate about immigration in some circles, and unemployment and the widening gap between rich and poor in others.

Sweden is firmly in election season ahead of September's polls, and immigration remains a key issue.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-08-14 11:38  

#4  If the Prime Minister can't figure it out, I would say that they are rioting, burning cars, creating disorder, destroying their neighborhood, and beginning to destroy Sweden.

Is that clear enough?
Posted by: Tom   2018-08-14 10:55  

#3  Masked youth gangs coordinated the firebombing of hundreds of cars across Sweden via social media, police say as Prime Minister asks 'what the f*** are they doing?'
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-08-14 10:05  

#2  Sweden cars: 80 set on fire by gangs in several cities

Posted by: Skidmark   2018-08-14 09:38  

#1  Hey, they shoot you in Florida for taking a parking spot. Just saying.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-08-14 08:07  

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