If there was ever a real-life policeman who came close in progressive Swedish affections to Kurt Wallander, the bestselling creation of Henning Mankell, it would probably be Göran Lindberg, chief of police of Uppsala, the city north of Stockholm that is home to Sweden’s most prestigious university. Although he lacked Wallander’s humility and reticence, Lindberg …
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A Swedish is under fire after denying the humanity of Muslims, local media reported on Sunday. “Muslims are not completely human,” Martin Strid, a board member for the Sweden Democrats, said on the “Forum” program on Swedish state television SVT. Addressing the crowd, Strid, according to various local sources said that there is a scale …
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A mosque in Sweden was vandalized Sunday when unknown attackers painted a swastika on one of its door, according to a Muslim body head. The Al-Huda Islamic Cultural Center’s mosque that came under attack is in Flen town of Sodermanland district. Sweden Islamic Federation President Tahir Akan told Anadolu Agency the Muslim community was sad …
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Swedish police are investigating an attack on a mosque with a homemade bomb as a hate crime, officers said Monday. The attack on the Islamic Cultural Center in Saffle, a town 45 kilometers (28 miles) southwest of Karsltad, left ball-bearings lodged in the walls of the center’s prayer room. Broadcaster SVT reported that police had …
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A mosque in Stockholm was vandalized with racist words and symbols. In a statement, the mosque management said a big swastika symbol was spray painted at the mosque’s door. The management strongly condemned the incident, saying the mosque had been facing such racist attacks for years. “Our mosque members and our community are extremely disturbed …
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In 2017 alone, twelve adolescent asylum seekers committed suicide, according to a survey by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm conducted on behalf of the National Board of Health. By contrast, the figure was below ten in 2016, with no registered suicide cases within the group in 2015. All the asylum seekers who took their lives in 2017 were boys and men under the age of 21. Almost all of them came from Afghanistan and had …
A woman, who had left her home at a Swedish asylum center with her daughter and son, aged 8 and 9, respectively, has been pronounced dead after being found in a southern Sweden forest. The woman who died Thursday in hospital was “poorly dressed” and that her daughter was in intensive care but not in …
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Three Belgian companies are being prosecuted for exporting chemicals to Syria, one of which could be used in the production of sarin gas. The firms say they acted with the seeming consent of Belgian customs between 2014 and 2016, but were subsequently alleged to have failed to apply for the permits that would protect them from …
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The Islamic Cultural Center of Hässleholm was destroyed in a fire on May 19. Police are treating the fire as an arson attack, according to P4 Malmö. According to officials, a person entered the Islamic Cultural Center’s prayer room to purposely set the fire. The fire had the potential to spread to connected apartments, Magnus …
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Mosques in Sweden were attacked a record 38 times in 2017, marking a tenfold increase from the previous year, a recent report showed. The study, conducted by Uppsala University, indicated a sobering increase in violence against mosques and Muslims in the Nordic country. Minister for Home Affairs Morgon Johansson described the surge of attacks as …
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