2010 Rinkeby riots

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| title = 2010 Rinkeby riots

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| date = {{Start date|2010|6||df=y}}

| place = Rinkeby, Stockholm, Sweden

| coordinates = {{coord|59|23|17|N|17|55|43|E}}

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Rioting
arson

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| side1 = Swedish Police Authority

| side2 = Rioters:

immigrant youth

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| howmany2 = 100

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| casualties_label = Injuries

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On 8 June and 9 June 2010, youth riots broke out in Rinkeby,{{cite web|url=https://www.dn.se/sthlm/nya-upplopp-i-rinkeby/|title=Nya upplopp i Rinkeby|publisher=Dagens nyheter|language=Swedish|author=Anders Forsström|date=9 June 2010|access-date=13 January 2017}} a suburb dominated by immigrant residents, in northern Stockholm, Sweden. Up to 100 youths threw bricks, set fires and attacked the local police station in Rinkeby.{{cite news|title=Sweden riots revive immigration debate |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/sweden-riots-revive-immigration-debate/story-e6frg6so-1226648963077 |work=The Australian |date=23 May 2013 |access-date=16 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527112219/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/sweden-riots-revive-immigration-debate/story-e6frg6so-1226648963077 |archive-date=27 May 2013 |url-status=live }}{{cite book|last1=Peggy Levitt|title=Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display|date=2015|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0520961456|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pCGsCQAAQBAJ&q=2010+Rinkeby+rioting&pg=PA34|access-date=23 March 2017|author1-link=Peggy Levitt}}{{cite news|last1=Pestano|first1=Andrew|title=Riot breaks out in Stockholm neighborhood|url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/02/21/Riot-breaks-out-in-Stockholm-neighborhood/6021487693092/|access-date=23 March 2017|publisher=UPI|date=21 February 2017}}

Rioting

The riot broke out late on the evening of 8 June, when a group of young adults were refused admittance to a junior high school dance; angered, they responded by throwing rocks through the windows of the school. From there, the rioting spread.{{cite news|title=Riots rock Stockholm suburb|url=http://www.smh.com.au//breaking-news-world/riots-rock-stockholm-suburb-police-20100609-xwvv.html|access-date=21 March 2017|agency=AFP|publisher=Sydney Morning Herald|date=9 June 2010}} Rioting continued for two nights.{{cite news|title=Cars, schools torched in fifth night of Stockholm riots|publisher=Cihan News Agency Turkey|date=24 May 2013|id={{ProQuest|1355213167}}}} Police estimate that about 100 young men participated in the rioting, throwing bricks, setting fires and attacking the police station.{{cite news|title=Stockholm police call in reinforcements as cars torched|work=Daily News Egypt|date=24 May 2013|id={{ProQuest|1355214472}}}}

Rioters threw rocks at police, attacked a police station and burned down a school, throwing rocks at responding fire engines and preventing fire fighters from reaching the school in time to save the building.{{cite news|title=Migrant youths riot in Sweden, burning down school|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/10276738|access-date=21 March 2017|publisher=BBC|date=9 June 2010}}{{cite news|last1=Bearak|first1=Max|title=Riots erupt in Sweden's capital after arrest, just days after Trump comments|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-sweden-riot-rinkeby-20170221-story.html|agency=Washington Post|publisher=Chicago Tribune|date=21 February 2017}}{{cite news|title=Police fire on Stockholm suburb rioters [Scot Region] Foreign Staff|publisher=The Times, London|date=22 February 2017|id={{ProQuest|1870627120}}}}

=Analysis=

Social activist George Lakey describes the 2010 Rinkeby riots as among the earliest riots by migrant youth in Sweden.{{cite book|last1=Lakey|first1=George|title=Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right-and How We Can, Too|date=2016|publisher=Melville House|isbn=978-1612195377|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HC3jCgAAQBAJ&q=riot+rinkeby++2010&pg=PT163|access-date=21 March 2017}}

Founder of iona Institute - the Catholic Pressure Group, commentator David Quinn linked the riots to immigration of Muslims blaming "the mainstream political parties, aided for the most part by the mainstream media," for abetting the rise of right wing political movement by "refus(ing) to permit an open and honest debate about" the causes of this and other riots by immigrant youth, and also by ignoring the "anti-Semitism, sex abuse, voter fraud," in immigrant communities.{{cite news|last1=Quinn|first1=David|title=Ignoring crimes by immigrants just plays into the hands of the far right|publisher=Irish Independent|date=24 February 2017|id={{ProQuest|1871407349}}}}

Sociologist Peggy Levitt attributes the riots to anger over "long-term youth unemployment and poverty."

Background

Rinkeby is noted for its high concentration of immigrants and people with immigrant ancestry. 89.1% of the population of Rinkeby had a first- or second-generation immigrant background as of 31 December 2007.{{cite web|title=Områdesfakta Rinkeby stadsdel|publisher=Stockholms stads utrednings- och statistikkontor AB|url=http://www.usk.stockholm.se/tabellverktyg/tv.aspx?projekt=omradesfakta&omrade=22405|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223083941/http://www.usk.stockholm.se/tabellverktyg/tv.aspx?projekt=omradesfakta&omrade=22405|archive-date=23 February 2012|access-date=16 June 2013}}