More riots going on tonight, now in Botkyrka and Malmö as well.
Sigh, obviously these people will only end up making things worse for themselves, why don't they understand that?
It's hard to imagine a better course of action for the rioters. They're systematically excluded from society and as a result face tremendous limitations in the political sphere that prevent legal action. Protests would presumably be met with jeers and insults; a party based on immigrant identity would be powerless. Not an insight but I think it's important to point out.
For your information, in Sweden the criminal immigrants used to be Finns. Integration to the society just doesn't happen overnight, and if you are unemployed and look different than the major population, it may not succeed at all. Leading to such struggles between classes like this.
I haven't followed this more than what we get constantly from Finnish media, but consider this. What started the problems was police shooting a nearly 70-year-old man in his home. The man was Portuguese, married with a Finn. According to the police, he was causing trouble and was armed with a knife, so they storm into his apartment - and shoot him. The neighborhood finds this was one time too many of police excesses, so during the next week they organize peaceful demonstrations. No one cares. If protests don't work, often someone gets frustrated. So now we have a few dozen young boys rioting every night, and now, suddenly everyone cares a lot.
Anyway as far as I know, the only person already arrested for rioting is a Finnish citizen. Our papers are also of the opinion that the rioting looks less like a warzone and more like some sort of weird theatre: every night the group of youngsters goes around a bit, breaks things and torches a few cars, and that's pretty much it. Word on the street is even that certain two evening tabloids are paying some rioters for videos of burning cars...
