Posts Tagged ‘malmo’

Jewish Children Exposed to ‘Widespread Antisemitism’ in Schools in Malmo, Sweden, New Study Concludes

Stortorget in Malmö, Sweden. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The small number of Jewish children attending public schools in the Swedish city of Malmo experience “widespread antisemitism,” according to a new study published by the municipal authorities this week. Fourteen Jewish children and 26 teachers were interviewed for the report, titled “Schoolyard racism, exclusion and conspiracy theories.” […]

Hundreds clash with police in Malmö following islamophobic acts

Violence erupted in Malmö on Friday after hundreds of people protested against anti-Muslim acts. Around 300 rioters threw objects at police and set fire to debris. Several police officers were slightly injured and 15 people detained. The violence followed the burning on Friday afternoon of a Quran by far-right activists near a predominantly migrant neighbourhood, […]

Hundreds clash with police in Malmö following islamophobic acts

Violence erupted in Malmö on Friday after hundreds of people protested against anti-Muslim acts. Around 300 rioters threw objects at police and set fire to debris. Several police officers were slightly injured and 15 people detained. The violence followed the burning on Friday afternoon of a Quran by far-right activists near a predominantly migrant neighbourhood, […]

Hundreds clash with police in Malmö following islamophobic acts

Violence erupted in Malmö on Friday after hundreds of people protested against anti-Muslim acts. Around 300 rioters threw objects at police and set fire to debris. Several police officers were slightly injured and 15 people detained. The violence followed the burning on Friday afternoon of a Quran by far-right activists near a predominantly migrant neighbourhood, […]

Swedish Police in Malmö Now Armed with Machine Guns to Take Back Control

As an antidote to the rampant criminality and attacks against law enforcement, at least two police stations in the city have chosen to ramp up security. Officers have been armed with Heckler & Koch MP5 machine guns. “The police in Malmö are currently doing quite a lot of operations against professional criminals,” said Calle Persson, […]

2nd Explosion Rocks Malmo, Sweden in Less Than a Week

Another explosion has rocked the Swedish city of Malmo, just days after a grenade attack directly targeted a police station. No injuries have been reported in the blast that happened around 9pm local time outside a restaurant located in an office building in the Rosengard city district, police said. The facade of the building was […]

Hand Grenade Attack on Police Station in Malmö, Sweden

A loud explosion has been heard at the police station in the Swedish city of Malmö. The blast was caused by a hand grenade, according to news reports. “The place is locked off and the bombing group is on its way,” police spokeswoman Anna Goransson was quoted as saying by Aftonbladet. The alleged attack happened shortly […]

Malmö University Closed on Monday after E-mail Threat

Malmö University will be closed on Monday after a “serious threat” directed at the university. At a press conference on Friday the university explained it could not disclose further details about the nature of the threat at the moment, but said it had been received by e-mail on December 29th and it concerned Monday, January […]

Gang Hijacks Grocery Store in Malmö, Sweden

Editor’s note: The race and ethnicity of the perpetrators is not mentioned in the original article. Four men have been remanded in custody after they forcefully evicted shop workers in a Malmö grocery store – only to keep running the store themselves before police arrived to put an end to it. The gang had threatened […]

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