Swedish police arrested eight people after riots broke out last night in several Stockholm suburbs, following a police shooting a week ago that left a local resident dead.
Rioters set fire to about 30 cars overnight in some of Sweden’s most ethnically diverse suburbs, including Husby, Norsborg and Vaarberg, Kjell Lindgren, a spokesman for the Swedish Police, said by phone today. In Husby, a school and the Husby Gaard cultural center were set alight while rubbish bins burned in many of the capital’s western and southern suburbs. A school was set on fire in Skaerholmen and a police station and buildings in central Jakobsberg were vandalized.
