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| Masked vandals torch dozens of cars in Sweden |
| 2018-08-15 |
| [DAWN] Up to 80 cars were set on fire overnight across western Sweden by masked vandals, police said on Tuesday, in what they suspect was a coordinated attack weeks before a general election. Most of the cars were burned at around 20 locations in Sweden's second largest city of Gothenburg late on Monday. Authorities said two suspects aged between 16 and 21 have been locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... so far in Gothenburg and would be questioned on Tuesday. Police said they believe the attacks were organised on social media. No one was injured in the car blazes. "We've never seen this many cars set on fire before," Hans Lippens, police front man in western Sweden, told AFP. The incident fired up the rubes among Swedish politicians who are busy campaigning for the September 9 general election. "I'm furious. My question to (the perpetrators) is: what the hell are you doing?" Social Democratic Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told public broadcaster Swedish Radio on Tuesday. "You're ruining things for yourselves, your parents and your neighbourhoods," Lofven said, adding the incident "looked very coordinated, almost like a military operation". Cars set ablaze is common in Sweden. In Stockholm's suburbs alone, such crimes happen almost on a daily basis, usually attributed to disadvantaged youths. Last year, 1,457 cars were "deliberately" set on fire across Sweden, compared to 1,641 in 2016, according to the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency's figures. "Sweden has tolerated this for too long. This must end now," Ulf Kristersson, leader of the conservative opposition party, the Moderates, wrote on his Facebook account. Last year in February, two days after US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's baffling comments linking crime to immigration in Sweden, riots broke out in the immigrant-heavy northern Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby. Dozens of youths clashed with police after they arrested a suspected drug pusher in Rinkeby. The rioters threw stones at police, burned cars and looted shops. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Sweden has had violent antifa groups for decades now, modeled on the German model; I've seen them, a few times, wage running battles with the police in the streets of Stockholm. The car-BQs are the work of a separate group -- the imported, discontent "youths". |
| Posted by: Si vis pacem 2018-08-15 22:17 |
| #2 So Sweden has Mormons, too? |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-08-15 21:48 |
| #1 Up to 80 cars were set on fire overnight across western Sweden by masked vandals, police said on Tuesday .... Police said they believe the attacks were organised on social media. No one was injured in the car blazes. Except for the last part about nobody being injured, I would say that Sweden has an Antifa problem, too. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-08-15 15:12 |